The Fascination of Time – Bringing Time to Life

Welcome to the time experience!

For more than 175 years, Glashütte has been an important centre for the German art of watchmaking. With its development, the town located south of Dresden is one of the most exciting scenes of German economic history. You can experience this history and the fascinating world of mechanical timekeeping at the German Watch Museum Glashütte. The permanent exhibition, set up chronologically, uses multimedia to give an insight into the eventful history of the Glashütte watch industry, from its beginnings in 1845 up to the present day. Individuals and companies are explored in striking ways through the use of unique exhibits and archive documents. Varying special exhibitions take place alongside this, focusing thematically on an era, an individual or a product from Glashütte watch history. Talks, initiatives and a range of family-friendly events accompany the exhibitions throughout the year. Experience an interesting and extraordinary journey through time, through the many different facets of timekeeping and watchmaking in Glashütte.

We look forward to your visit to the German Watch Museum Glashütte!

Opening Hours

Open from Wednesday to Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm (also on public holidays)

Closed: Monday and Tuesday, December 24/25/31, 2024, January 1, 2025

Special Opening Hours:
Good Friday, 29/03/2024, 10 am – 5 pm
Easter Saturday, 30/03/2024, 10 am – 5 pm
Easter Sunday, 31/03/2024, 10 am – 5 pm
Easter Monday, 01/04/2024, 10 am – 5 pm
Tuesday, 02/04/2024, 10 am – 5 pm
Labour Day, 01/05/2024, 10 am – 5 pm
Ascension Day, 09/05/2024, 10 am – 5 pm
Whit Sunday, 19/05/2024, 10 am – 5 pm
Whit Monday, 20/05/2024, 10 am – 5 pm

Guided tours possible with prior reservation (also on Tuesdays for bigger groups)

Please note our current hygiene information.

Visitor address:
Schillerstraße 3a
01768 Glashütte/Saxony
Germany

Prices

 

Adults7 €
Reductions
(pupils, students, trainees, persons with severe disabilities, unemployed persons)
4,50 €
Children until 6 years of agefree
Family Ticket Maxi
(2 adults and children until 16 years)
15 €
Family Ticket Mini
(1 adult and children until 16 years)
12 €
Groups of more than 10 persons
(price per person)
4,50 €

News

This is where we inform you of current topics, announcements and special offers of the German Watch Museum Glashütte.
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The time ist female.

New special exhibition at the Watch Museum

A new special exhibition is currently on show at the German Watch Museum in Glashütte. Entitled “The time is female.”, this time the focus is on ladies’ watches and the…

VVO Discovery Day on 05/04/2024

Trip with vintage bus to the Watch Museum

The VVO Discovery Day will take place again on Friday, 5 April 2024. With a family day ticket for just one fare zone, the entire area of the public transport…

130 years of UNION GLASHÜTTE

New exhibition in the foyer

Since November 2023, the German Watch Museum Glashütte has been presenting a new exhibition in the foyer of the museum. It focuses on the Glashütte watch factory UNION, which is…

Anniversary guest in the anniversary year

German Watch Museum Glashütte welcomes its 500,000th visitor

On Friday, 10 November 2023, the 500,000th guest visited the German Watch Museum Glashütte since it opened in 2008. To be more precise, it was two visitors. For Marion Tappert…

Watch Museum on it´s way in Dresden

Special advertisement on the occasion of the anniversary

On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the German Watch Museum Glashütte a tramcar of the “Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG” was equipped with a special advertisement. This tram has been…

A looking back

at the 8th Antique Watch Market

Glashütte celebrated and how! In nice spring weather, a very big number of visitors came this year to the town of watches to have a look at the varied programme…
Berthold Kege und sein Enkel Laurent Kegel zu Besuch im Uhrenmuseum

170 years in family ownership

A watch tells a very special story

In the past special exhibition “Glashütte Watches – How it all began”, a pocket watch was shown that tells a special piece of family history. The current owner and lender…

A lot to discover on the dial

The displays of the astronomical art clock build by Hermann Goertz

After the winding of the astronomical art clock built by Hermann Goertz, which we have shown in an earlier video, we now want to explain the dial of the clock…

Focusing on a masterpiece

Winding of the astronomical art clock build by Hermann Goertz

It is one of the most impressive and important pieces of the exhibition of the German Watch Museum: the astronomical art clock built by Hermann Goertz. A watchmaker winds up…

Calendar of events

9th Antique Watch Market Glashütte

Wann?

Sunday, May 26, 2024, 9 am to 4 pm

Wo?

German Watch Museum Glashütte

Preis?

EUR 5.00

Historical watches of all types and regions, tolls, spare parts, equipment of all kinds and literature can be admired, bought and sold A special supporting program for the whole...

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