The British Museum 
The British Museum
Looking through the British Museum can be very overwhelming if you do not know what you are looking to find. While exploring in the depths of this cultural museum one stumbles early upon The Sir Harry and Lady Dangly Gallery of Clocks and Watches display. Located on the second floor many may not be drawn into this exhibition merely because, worldwide people still use watches and clocks today. In The Gallery of Clocks and Watches there is much more represented than just clocks; cultures of many different groups, the past and present and certain non-reproducible clocks are contained and represented in just one small exhibition. Clocks from all around the world are collected and displayed in the “Clocks and Watches” gallery. The theme although could be categorized as clocks and watches, actually goes much deeper than that. The theme is simply time, and how it is tracked by individuals from different cultures. For example a clock from Prague in the 14th century would not only tell the time by the standard twenty-four hour clock but also by astrological, moon and sun signs. The clock from Prague compared to a clock from Tallinn contained a sun painting on it, but had the modern day numbers one through twelve. This only shows how different cultures in from many places recorded time differently. This gallery also shows time in the past, present and leads up to ideas in the near future. Clocks and watches in this exhibit dated from AD 1300 to present day. In the past time was kept using sundials, or astrological reference, to even the twenty-four hour clock. Today time is kept in all of the different ways listed before but we have them on computer screens or on analog clocks on the underground. Although the museum does not show future ideas of clocks the process of how clocks and watches evolved only leads us to believe on what future clocks may look like. A personal favorite clock of mine was the Armillary clock, not only because it was made
Looking through the British Museum can be very overwhelming if you do not know what you are looking to find. While exploring in the depths of this cultural museum one stumbles early upon The Sir Harry and Lady Dangly Gallery of Clocks and Watches display. Located on the second floor many may not be drawn into this exhibition merely because, worldwide people still use watches and clocks today. In The Gallery of Clocks and Watches there is much more represented than just clocks; cultures of many different groups, the past and present and certain non-reproducible clocks are contained and represented in just one small exhibition. Clocks from all around the world are collected and displayed in the “Clocks and Watches” gallery. The theme although could be categorized as clocks and watches, actually goes much deeper than that. The theme is simply time, and how it is tracked by individuals from different cultures. For example a clock from Prague in the 14th century would not only tell the time by the standard twenty-four hour clock but also by astrological, moon and sun signs. The clock from Prague compared to a clock from Tallinn contained a sun painting on it, but had the modern day numbers one through twelve. This only shows how different cultures in from many places recorded time differently. This gallery also shows time in the past, present and leads up to ideas in the near future. Clocks and watches in this exhibit dated from AD 1300 to present day. In the past time was kept using sundials, or astrological reference, to even the twenty-four hour clock. Today time is kept in all of the different ways listed before but we have them on computer screens or on analog clocks on the underground. Although the museum does not show future ideas of clocks the process of how clocks and watches evolved only leads us to believe on what future clocks may look like. A personal favorite clock of mine was the Armillary clock, not only because it was made