Wall clocks are relics of the past: today one learns the time from a watch or mobile phone. Nevertheless, wall clocks still exert a great fascination. Experimental designers have reinvented them in recent times – as both disturbing and captivating objects that are meant to sharpen both our perception and sense of time. The Wien Museum will be showing a small selection of international examples in the Clock Museum, from a knitted clock by the Norwegian designer Siren Elise Wilhelmsen to the ‘Blank Wall Clock’ by Marti Guixé (see above) for Alessi and the ‘flip clock’ (which mostly stands still!) from
the Vienna studio breadedEscalope.

The Clock Museum offers the perfect surroundings for the presentation: it accommodates one of the most important clock collections in Europe. Marvels of astronomy can be seen here, as well as the famous Viennese ‘lantern clocks’ from the Biedermeier
era.