Gustave Vichy is one of the oldest manufacturers of this generation. From 1866, his clowns, magicians, musicians and acrobats with lunar faces hypnotize crowds with their graceful gestures and full of mischief. The Moon gives us a wink on the Magician’s breastplate, imperturbable in its mechanical perfection. The Snake Man has the same deep and fascinating look. His body rises with perfect and timeless grace. The illusion of life extends beyond the mechanical movement, the beaded fringes linger well after the stop of the wheels.

Be charmed by the offbeat instruments of the Gramophone and Mechanical Music Museum! This astonishing museum presents a unique collection in Europe of more than 300 music instruments. Discover the fascinating history of music boxes, gramophones, musical machines or barrel organs

Collection: Jan Brauers. Over three floors, over 500 exhibits provide a comprehensive overview of the development of self-playing musical instruments over the 350 years of music-maker history. Precious music machines such as the elephant clock, flute clocks from the Black Forest, the fairground organ “Selection”, the Wurlitzer cinema orchestrion, as well as small tobacco cans and jewelery pieces with a musical work. Listening and media stations also give visitors an in-depth cultural and historical insight.

Von Meisterwerken Der Naturwissenschaft Und Technik, Abteilung Mechanische Musik (a museum of masterpieces in science and technology) The Deutsches Museum has a large and significant collection of musical instruments. A collection of musical instruments was already included in the first concept of Oskar von Miller for the German Museum. As “technical acoustics”, the department showed the implementation of the acoustic laws in instrument making and the development of the instruments from the early days to the present and thus stood for the close connection of science, technology and music in the Deutsches Museum. Today the collection comprises about 1,900 musical instruments as well as more than 4,000 program carriers for jukeboxes. It documents the development of the instruments primarily of European art music. The collection spans a wide arc from a horn of the Etruscan era to modern-day synthesizers; it only includes clamps a few centimeters in size, as well as large, several-meter-high organs. The focus is on technical and technical aspects.

For more than 160 years the collection of the German Clock Museum has existed, today it counts more than 8000 objects from all over the world. Around one thousand watches are visible to the visitors, they are taught in almost as many tours annually. The extensive watchmaking library holds a treasure trove of historical sources and company publications: a valuable basis for research. Making this inventory accessible to today’s issues is the core task of the house.