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A place where time stands still, immortalized in many antique watches and clocks, as though it has been finally vanquished by mankind, the Clapham's Clock Museum, Whangarei enthralls the tourists of the world and the other parts of New Zealand with ‘a brief history of time.’ The Clapham's Clock Museum, Whangarei is a repository of clocks and watches and came into being over sixty years ago.
Go Back in Time
The Clapham's Clock Museum in Whangarei houses in its realms different makes of the ancient Hunters’ Cuckoo Clock. The quaint and ornately carved clock helped those who were marching across the dense woodlands of the Black Forest of the erstwhile Prussia during olden days. The hunters would march in a procession that included themselves and their entourage of helpers along with sniffing dogs. The artificial cuckoo would spring out suddenly from the Clock and cuckoo thrice if it was 3 am or 3 pm or twelve times, if it was 12 am or 12 pm. The visitors marvel at the Hunters’ Cuckoo Clock in the Museum, when the wooden bird pops out all of a sudden and cuckoos the time of the day even today.
Replicas of the Big Ben of London are also housed in the Clapham's Clock Museum, Whangarei. The Big Ben comprises a large faced clock with enormous hour and minute hands. The imitations of the Big Ben of London that are found in the Clapham's Clock Museum, Whangarei have been carved out from the wood of trees that grow in New Zealand.
Every Time there is a Chime
Some of the clocks of the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries would enthrall everyone around them with musical chimes that resemble those heard in churches when the bell in the belfry tolls. Such clocks are also exhibited in the precincts of the Clapham's Clock Museum, Whangarei. The Komet clocks and the Italian clocks are the finest examples of such clocks that are showcased in the repository.
One of the tourist attractions in Whangarei where you should definitely halt and take your time in, the Clapham's Clock Museum, Whangarei is one of the chief time-killers for tourists on their Whangarei tours.
For detailed online information on the Clapham's Clock Museum, Whangarei, visit travel.mapsofworld.
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