Glashütte Original 10 years of the German Watch Museum Glashütte

In 2005 the German town of Glashütte put out a tender looking for an innovative way to make use of one of the town centre's most historic buildings, the former German Watchmaking School A year later, the documents establishing the "German Watch Museum Glashütte – Nicolas G Hayek" Foundation were signed by the town of Glashütte and Glashütte Original.

The idea was to set up a watch museum, with the town contributing its watch collection and Glashütte Original purchasing and restoring the former watchmaking school with the support of the Swatch Group After two years of renovation work, the museum opened in 2008 Over the past ten years, more than 300,000 people from a wide variety of backgrounds have visited the museum, from groups of local schoolchildren to watch collectors from afar German Watch Museum Glashütte © Glashütte Original Exhibition highlights The German Watch Museum Glashütte has organised a number of exhibitions tackling. Source