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Museum of clocks in Brussels, Belgium

Clockarium, Museum of the Art Deco Ceramic Clock in Brussels
  • Le Clockarium, Musée de l'horloge Art Déco en faïence à Bruxelles (French)
  • Het Clockarium, Museum van de Art Deco faienceklok te Brussel (Dutch)
Exterior of the museum
Interactive fullscreen map
Established2000
LocationBoulevard Auguste Reyers / Auguste Reyerslaan 163,
1030 Schaerbeek, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Coordinates50°50′54″N 4°24′8″E / 50.84833°N 4.40222°E / 50.84833; 4.40222
TypeHorological museum
WebsiteOfficial website

The Clockarium, Museum of the Art Deco Ceramic Clock in Brussels (French: Le Clockarium, Musée de l'horloge Art Déco en faïence à Bruxelles; Dutch: Het Clockarium, Museum van de Art Deco faienceklok te Brussel) is a museum in Schaerbeek, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium, devoted to Art Deco ceramic clocks.

The museum specialises in faience mantel clocks, which were the first timepieces affordable to everyone and proudly decorating many homes in Belgium and Northern France during the 1920s and 1930s. It is located on the Boulevard Auguste Reyers/Auguste Reyerslaan in an Art Deco house built in 1935 by the architect Gustave Bossuyt.

See also

References

  1. "Clockarium". Brussels Museums. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
  2. Gustave Bossuyt Archived 18 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine (in French) or Gustave Bossuyt Archived 18 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine (in Dutch)
  3. "Clockarium – Inventaire du patrimoine architectural". monument.heritage.brussels (in French). Retrieved 11 September 2024.
  4. "The Clockarium building in Brussels". www.clockarium.org. Retrieved 11 September 2024.

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Schaerbeek Cemetery is owned by the municipality and is in neighbouring Evere and Sint-Stevens-Woluwe, Zaventem.
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