Another large collection, but in storage is that of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.
As Karlheinz observed, there are fine but small collections in many locations, including archives, such as the David Eugene Smith Collection in the Columbia University Archives, New York. Or the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, Dresden. Or the National Technical Museum<http://www.ntm.cz/>, Prague. Indeed, many of the museums on this list provided by the NAWCC<http://www.nawcc-index.net/Museums.php> would have sundials. Sara J. Schechner Altazimuth Arts 42°36'N 71° 22'W West Newton, MA 02465 http://www.altazimutharts.com/ Sara J. Schechner, Ph.D. David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments Lecturer on the History of Science Department of the History of Science, Harvard University Science Center 251c, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617-496-9542 | Fax: 617-496-5932 | [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | @SaraSchechner http://scholar.harvard.edu/saraschechner http://chsi.harvard.edu/ From: sundial [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of dharani Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 8:37 AM 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
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