====== Wuppertal Watch Museum ======
The private **watch museum of the watchmaker and goldsmith family Abeler in Wuppertal**, Germany, shows around 2000 exhibits relating to approximately 5,000 years of development of timekeeping and watchmaking technology. Here, the development of the [[sundial]]s of the ancient Egyptians to the atomic clocks of the presence can be studied and learned a lot about the technical and cultural history of mankind.

The museum is the culmination of the collecting passion of Georg Abeler, who opened it in [[1958]] to the public, to give everybody a detailed insight into the world of time measurement. It all began with the auction of an old English grandfather clock in the year [[1955]]. One watch soon became hundreds, and today the museum is considered as one of the widest in its class worldwide. It was seen by over one million visitors from around the world.

Today Jürgen Abeler is head of the museum.

===== Address =====
Wuppertaler Uhrenmuseum\\ Poststraße 11\\ 

42103 Wuppertal (Elberfeld)\\ Tel: 0202 - 49 399-0 + -24\\ Fax: 0202 - 49 399 59\\ uhrenmuseum@abeler.de

===== Opening hours =====
Sa 11-14 h\\ Closed on Sundays and public holidays\\ Tours by appointment

===== Weblinks =====
  *[[http://www.abeler.de/einzigartig_uhrenmuseum.htm|Wuppertaler Uhrenmuseum]] (German)


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