Clockarium
Museum of clocks in Brussels, Belgium
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.
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