Friday, July 2, 2010

The Clock Museum

The next museum that we visited in Stuttgart was the _____ Museum. The building the museum in housed in was originally a castle, but, after it was destroyed during WWII and then rebuilt years later it was turned into a museum. Most of the museum deals with the history of the region of Germany that Stuttgart is in.

Museum Architecture

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Entrance to the museum

 

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Outside Museum Corridor

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Altarpieces

 

This museum had a hodgepodge of items in it. One of the exhibition halls had nothing but ancient altar pieces. Here are  pictures of a few of them.

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Shaelyn took this picture. She’s having trouble holding the camera still. We’re working on it.

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Stained Glass Windows

The next area of the museum had stained glass windows from various different churches. They were pretty cool. I could have sworn I ended up with more picture than I did. I appear to only have two so . . .

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According to the placard above this stained glass window is from St. Thomas’ Church in Strassburg and is from the year 1250.Stuttgart and Stuff 094

 

Reliquary

As you passed from one main hall to another there were just randomly placed exhibits like the reliquary pictured below.

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According  to this placard this reliquary is from the 1200. It is made out of bone and depicts scenes from Christ’s youth.

 

Clocks

In the basement of the museum they have a coo-coo clock exhibit. The clocks in this exhibit are not like any clocks that I have ever seen. They were mesmerizing. Both Shaelyn and I were enthralled with them.

 

  • Clock “Sockelgewichtsuhr”

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This clock is believed to be from Italy and is from the End of the 16th century.

 

  • Clock “Vogel Strauss”

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Stuttgart and Stuff 113 As the placard states this clock is from the 16th Century. I think it says it’s from Augsburg although I’m not sure. It is made out of Bronze and Gold.

 

  • Clock “Hahn”

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This clock is from the 1590’s and was possibly made in Augsburg. It is made from bronze, gold, silver and iron.

 

          • Clock “Schiefe Ebene”

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This clock is from the 17th and 19th century.

 

  • Clocks in Action

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