Dear Darek, I am not sure about what you are looking for. There are about 100 museums in Europe with more than 20 sundials in their collection. And there are more with less, but also signifact dials. Many museums have most part of their sundial collection closed for the public, but you may get access if ask before. What I want to say is that the list you present is quite nice and those are collections with really many dials but I till now I met only people who had time to travel through one or two countries, besides some Asian people. Lets teke Ireland, for instance: there are 134 dials in various collections and about 200 fixed dials. Enough to visit for a 3-week-journey Best wishes Karlheinz
From: dharani Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 1:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Sundials in museums Hello I would like to thank everyone who replied to my recent inquiry about sundial collections in museums. This is what I compliled based on all the suggestions: - The Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers (CNAM), Paris, France - Musée du Louvre, Paris, France - Harvard University Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, USA - Adler Planetarium, Chicago, USA - The Przypkowski Museum, Jędrzejów, Poland - The Jagiellonian University Museum, Kraków, Poland - Wroclaw University Museum, Wrocław, Poland - Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge, UK - Royal Museums Greenwich, London, UK - Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, UK - Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Minan, Italy - Nordiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden - Musée de la Vie Wallonne, Liege, Belgium As I do similar research in my country I know there is about 20 other museums in Poland having sundials in their collections but the instrument quantity is rather insignificant. Is there anything else one should consider while traveling? I guess the best thing to do would be a worldwide sundial museums database with all the necessery data, practical info, collection description, and photos of the dials. What do you think about this? -- Best regards Darek Oczki 52N 21E Warsaw, Poland GNOMONIKA.pl Sundials in Poland http://gnomonika.pl -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
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