THE MUSEUM celebrating Coventry’s role as the centre of the British watch making industry is set to reopen following its closure owing to Covid-19.
The Coventry Watch Museum, in Spon Street, will welcome visitors again from tomorrow (September 8).
Exhibiting timepieces from the heydey of Coventry’s watchmaking industry, the museum will be open for Heritage Open Days (September 11 – 20).
Announcing the reopening, museum directors said: “We have been closed for the past five months because of the coronavirus, from reopening we will still have the same opening times 11am – 3pm/
“Visitors must observe social distancing at all times in our museum and face-coverings worn.
“A one-way system will operate with limited numbers in each room at all times.
“Our volunteers will wear mask and face-visors, if you are in the town, come and learn about Coventry’s contribution to watchmaking – in the mid-19th century there over 4000 people involved with the making of pocket watches.
“We have a lot of watches on display plus three nineteenth century cottages displaying period furniture and artifacts.
“The Coventry Watch Museum is in Spon Street, it is at the back if Samoan Joe’s pub, (the former Shakespeare).”
