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Muséeinternationald'horlogerie
Tuesday - Sunday, 10 am - 5 pm
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- 02/03/2025 10:30
- 02/03/2025 12:00
- MIH
MIH Friends Tour
First Sunday of each month 10:30 am -12:00 pm, the Association of the Musée international d'horlogerie friends offers a free guided tour to the curious who wish to discover the treasures of MIH.
- 28/02/2025 14:00
- 28/02/2025 15:30
- MIH
Workshop Learn to Tell Time!
Through this workshop, the MIH offers children the opportunity to create a beautiful colored dial that will help them become familiar with reading the time!
- 27/02/2025 14:00
- 27/02/2025 15:30
- MIH
Workshop Dress up your clock!
Discover the mysteries of watchmaking mechanisms, by assembling and dismantling the movement of a fully functional plastic clock! (8-14 years)
- 26/02/2025 14:00
- 26/02/2025 15:30
- MIH
Workshop Engraving
Make your vintage engraved dial and adorn it with pearls! Pocket watches were often adorned with magnificent engravings and set with many precious stones... (6-8 / 8-14 years old)
- 25/02/2025 14:00
- 25/02/2025 15:30
- MIH
Workshop Clepsydra
The purpose of this workshop is to offer young visitors the chance to build a water clock, a fully functional clepsydra (4-10 years old).
- 20/02/2025 17:30
- 20/02/2025 20:00
- Salle Hans Erni
Grand opening
The City of La Chaux-de-Fonds, the direction of the Musée international d'horlogerie and the Foundation Stichting Haegsche Tijd are pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition Innovation in motion. 350 years of the balance spring
Exhibitions Read more
Man and Time
A captivating journey through time. The MIH reference exhibition.
To the nearest femtosecond !
Dive into the infinitely accurate!
New acquisitions
Each year, the MIH offers an exhibition dedicated to recent acquisitions.
Maurice Yves Sandoz, collector
Maurice Yves Sandoz’s watch and clock collection is renowned as one of the world’s most prestigious.
Innovation in movement. 350 years of the hairspring
2025 marks the 350th anniversary of the publication of Christiaan Huygens' design for the regulating balance spring.
Collections
The mission of the MIH is to collect and preserve objects relating to time, its measurement and watchmaking in general. The current collection, the largest in the world devoted to the history of time measurement, includes not only Swiss and international watches and clocks from the 16th century to the present day, but also tools, machines, instruments, automata, models or reconstructions of lost objects, as well as paintings, engravings and iconographic collections from the various fields of time measurement. With more than 10,000 objects, the museum is also endeavouring to collect archives and historical and audiovisual documents, in order to give an account of a living heritage.

Entry Fees
- Adults CHF 15.-
- Reduced tariffs, Students with card till 25 years old and seniors over 65 years old CHF 12.50 (>01.03.25 CHF 13.-)
- Children over 12 years and young people under 16 years CHF 7.50 (>01.03.25 CHF 7.-)
- Families CHF 30.- (Parents and children under 16 years)
- From October to March, the museum is delighted to offer free admission every Sunday from 10 am to midday.
- Free with Neuchâtel Tourist Card
- Adults CHF 18.- (>01.03.25: CHF 20.-)
- Reduced tariffs CHF 15.- (>01.03.25: CHF 16.-)
- Children over 12 years and young people under 16 years CHF 8.- (>01.03.25: CHF 9.-)
- Families CHF 36.- (Parents and children under 16 years) (>01.03.25: CHF 39.-)
This ticket allows you to visit the Musée des beaux-arts, the Musée d'histoire, the Musée paysan et artisanal and Muzoo. The ticket is valid for 2 consecutive days.
Every ticket also offers discounts by five partners: Maison blanche, Musée des beaux-arts du Locle, Musée d'horlogerie du Locle, Moulins souterrains du Col-des-Roches, Tourisme neuchâtelois - Montagnes (Small train and guided tour on schedule).
- Reduced tariffs CHF 12.50 (>01.03.25: CHF 13.-)
- Students CHF 7.50 (>01.03.25: CHF 7.-)
Discount for groups of more than 30 persons :
- from 30 to 39 people: 3 free tickets
- from 40 to 49 people: 4 free tickets
- from 50 to 59 people: 5 free tickets etc.
Advance booking only
- Per guide CHF 110.- (>01.03.25: CHF 130.-)
- Pupils, students, apprentices from Swiss public schools on weekdays only and by prior reservation CHF 60.- (>01.03.25: CHF 70.-)
- Tactile visit for people with visual impairment CHF 110.- (>01.03.25: CHF 130.-)
- Discovery of an old mechanical workshop CHF 60.- (>01.03.25: CHF 70.-)