Museum Speelklok

Museum Speelklok is a museum of automatic musical instruments, which gathers over 1000 different mechanisms that emit sounds, win simple melodies and entire concerts - from miniature, intricately decorated music boxes, through hours-striking clocks, to large automatic organs. Many instruments are still functional, and some of them can be set in motion and produce sounds on their own.

Museum Speelklok has a rich collection of all kinds of human and animal figurines, especially birds, which thanks to hidden spring mechanisms not only make sounds, but also move. One of the biggest attractions is a mechanical pianist who can play complicated musical compositions on a real piano.

Mechanical instruments were extremely popular in the 17th and 18th centuries. At the end of the 19th century, with the invention of the phonograph and then the turntable, the massive use of music boxes, pianos and other mechanisms for playing melodies ended.