Clock Museum in Jedrzejow was a result of handing over the collection of sundials, astronomical instruments and antique books library by the family Przypkowski. The history of this family goes back deep into the Middle Ages (the first records in the mid-thirteenth century), and its coat of arms Radwan, now sign Museum, the oldest Polish ancestral characters. Permanent exhibitions are located in two historic buildings in Jędrzejow: former Cistercian pharmacy from the early eighteenth century, rebuilt in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, and the former home of the Przypkowski of the nineteenth century and rebuilt in 1905. The museum has a number of very diverse thematically, departments: sundials and other types of clocks, astronomical instruments and books devoted to astronomy and gnomonice, graphics and librises, arts and crafts and historical section, the catering department including kitchenware, tableware, cookbooks and historical collections menu. The museum library has many valuable old books and incunabula from the period 1480-1800. But the most important collection in the museum is sundials almost all types produced in the XVI-XIX, for example: Nuremberg, Augsburg, Dieppe, Paris, Equatorial, altitude and other (water clocks, hourglasses, candles clock).
museums and monumentsHoly Cross Province, PolandJedrzejow, Holy Cross Province, Poland