That’s the feeling that greets you the moment you climb the staircase at Vienna’s Uhrenmuseum. The other cornerstone of the collection is more unexpected: the pocket watch collection of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, one of Austria’s most celebrated 19th-century writers. Seeing something like that under one roof, alongside mass-produced pocket watches and hand-wound Biedermeier lanterns, is what makes this museum worth the detour. Not just a display caseTo its credit, the Wien Museum, which runs the Uhrenmuseum, has resisted turning the place into a static reliquary. Have you ever visited a horological museum worth checking out?