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More than 400 unique exhibits are presented on two floors with an exhibition space of (approx.) 1000 m2.

These can also be experienced with the help of multimedia: Glashütte pocket watches, wristwatches and pendulum clocks from different periods, marine chronometers and escapement models, historical certificates and patents, tools and workbenches as well as astronomical models and metronomes are all displayed in a very artful fashion.

Thematically, the exhibition is composed of a row of “historical rooms” and “time rooms”, framed by a prologue and an epilogue.

The “historical rooms” set up the chronological context of the watch town and present, at the outset, the celebrities and the founding fathers: Ferdinand Adolph Lange, Julius Assmann, Adolf Schneider and Moritz Großmann, who made Glashütte an important centre of fine German watchmaking and watchmaker training.

Throughout the exhibition, other crucial periods are presented such as the founding years, the First and Second World Wars, the era of disassembly and expropriation as well as the German reunification and the new beginnings.

The “time rooms” interrupt the chronological progression of the Glashütte watch history and carry the visitors away into the microcosm of a mechanical clock for example. This way the visitors can experience for themselves the precision and the interplay of hundreds of individual parts.

They can also make independent discoveries in the multimedia “time room” which proposes an interactive glossary of chronometry.

As a modern and experience-oriented “time world”, the museum should not only appeal to watch enthusiasts but also to laymen, families and young people in order to pass on to the next generation the fascination of the art of watchmaking and the knowledge of chronometry.