Dynamic City Livery Company with a spectacular world class watch & clock museum in the heart of London. Find our museum @ the Science Museum, London
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If you have been listening to @BBCRadio4 this morning here is the fantastic skull watch mentioned on Hands of Time. One of my favourites with lots of engraved including Death as a skeleton, holding an hourglass and scythe. (@sciencemuseum) #mementomori #skeleton
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Fascinated with natural philosophy since childhood, King George III became an avid collector of scientific instruments & even had his own private observatory. He was born #OnThisDay in 1738. Explore items from his collection in our Science City gallery 🔭 bit.ly/34KNUCB
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We are open for appointments throughout May and June. Email the library to book your place.
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'TIME AND OBSERVATORIES' - the theme of our Annual Meeting this year. Registration now open - Saturday 15 May, 10.30-16.30 UK time, on Zoom - free and open to all!
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📢We’re making a podcast!
🎙️Join @TherealNihal, experts and enthusiasts in #ABriefHistoryOfStuff as they reveal remarkable stories about the stuff around you, all inspired by our collection.
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It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle.
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BOOK NOW! This Thursday, at 6.15pm UK time, Sandrine Girardier will give the second 2021 AHS London Lecture - looking at the Jaquet-Droz workshop and its suppliers in the 18th century. Zoom Webinar, free to all, booking link here: ahsoc.org/events/london-lect…
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Silver 'memento mori' watch in the form of a skull, known as the 'Mary Queen of Scots' watch, signed Moysant, Blois; the dial is engraved with a scene of Saturn swallowing his children, 1780-1850 @sciencemuseum @clockskeeper collection.sciencemuseumgrou…
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Just before the world shut down, I was invited by Paul Buck, former curator of Horology @britishmuseum to go behind the scenes to see this incredible Thames foreshore find. It’s an early watch, dating from around 1650, that was found with its cover, chain and key. #mudlarking
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Early-20th-century Brno, 2nd city of the modern Czech Republic, was electrifying. Electric lighting, electric tramways - and electrified time. Find out more in @nye_james's AHS London Lecture! Zoom Webinar, free to all, 14 Jan, 6.15pm UTC. Register here: ahsoc.org/events/london-lect…
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In our Shaping Science series, meet the artisans who are using a mix of traditional and modern techniques to create beautiful hand-made scientific instruments from a replica seventeenth century globe and vacuum bell jar to a clock wheel and brass sundial: bit.ly/3nxG6MG
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Have you seen our Shaping Science series? Meet the artisans who are using a mix of traditional and modern techniques to create beautiful hand-made scientific instruments from a replica 17th C globe and vacuum bell jar to a clock wheel and brass sundial: bit.ly/36NF9Zp
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Here's a better version. London's extraordinary growth 1520-1650:
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Frozen in time: an intricate, miniature watch set in a single large Colombian emerald, with a dial plate enamelled in translucent green.
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The hoard contains an astonishing array of almost 500 dazzling jewels and gemstones from many parts of the world including Colombia, Sri Lanka, Egypt and the Byzantine Empire.
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Very few examples of Elizabethan and early Stuart jewellery in England have survived, which makes the Cheapside Hoard an important record. It also gives us unparalleled insight into the international gem trade in an age of global conquest and exploration.
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In June 1912, workmen excavating a timber-framed building struck upon an old wooden casket containing a tangled heap of jewellery, gems and precious objects. It is one of the most remarkable and spectacular finds ever recovered from British soil.
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And we're sure you'll be pleased to hear that it will have its own designated gallery in our new museum at West Smithfield.
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We're delighted to announce our new Twitter exhibition: The Tweetside Hoard. Open now and free to visit, all you have to do is scroll down this thread. And please, no touching the display cases. #TheTweetsideHoard
