Upcoming Events
Meet the Old Cranks
In Their Words
Special Exhibition for 2026!
In 2014, the American Clock & Watch Museum received a donation of 30+ audio cassette tapes of interviews with former workers from Bristol’s two major clock companies—The E. Ingraham Company and Sessions Clock Co.—which were conducted by author Philip Samponaro, Jr., in the late 1990s. In 2024, the museum had the cassettes digitized to preserve the recordings.
The exhibition displays museum artifacts alongside some of the original recordings, which can be accessed with a smartphone via QR codes. This unique experience provides museum visitors a glimpse of the vital role that Bristol played in the clock and watch industries, as told by the workers themselves…In Their Words.
In Their Words is sponsored by:
Susan Ingraham Becher, Philip Samponaro, Jr.,
Philip Samponaro, Sr., Mary Treadway, and Wade Treadway
CT Open House Day
Saturday, June 14th, from 10:00 to 5:00
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Free admission all day!
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Chat with a clock repairer in our clock shop gallery from 10:00 to 12:00
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Watch Clockmaker Tom Vaughn give a demonstration of his reproduction 18th century lathe, used for turning the pinions and posts of wooden clocks.
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Drop-in activities for children to coincide with the America250 celebration:
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Make your own paper Fortune Teller
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Take part in a specialty themed scavenger hunt - can you find a dozen eagles on our clocks and watches?
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Get a free copy of The History of the American Revolution by Emma Carlson Berne. This book introduces the American Revolution to kids aged 6 to 9 (while supplies last).
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Meet the Old Cranks
Have you ever wondered what makes a clock tick?
Come visit us on the first or third Friday of the month at 10:00 a.m. and follow our Old Cranks around the museum as they set the clocks.
