Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon/en

Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon

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Dresdner Zwinger
Building of the museum

The Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon in Dresden, Germany, is a museum of the Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden (governmental collection of art Dresden). It accommodates on of the most significant collections of around 2,000 clocks and fine mechanical instruments. Some of the collection’s highlights are the Arabian celestial globe of 1279, a calculating machine of around 1650 once belonging to Blaise Pascal and the orbit clock manufactured in the 1560ies by order of the court of Dresden.