Timeless Treasures

Beginning March 20th we will offer our new Fine Arts tour focusing on the wonderful portraits, furniture, ceramics and clock details in reverse glass and dial paintings.

Tours begin at 1:00

 The Willard House and Clock Museum in North Grafton, Mass.,
Circa 1718, is a festive place with historic roots.

Benjamin Willard began making clocks in his small, rural Massachusetts workshop in 1766. His three younger brothers, Simon, Ephraim and Aaron, quickly learned the trade and began a three-generation clockmaking legacy in the Grafton workshop. Today, over 80 Willard clocks are exhibited in the birthplace and original workshop of the Willard clockmakers, along with family portraits, furnishings and other Willard family heirlooms. Works of Zabdiel and Benjamin Franklin Willard are also documented. Various Willard style clocks include: Turret, Gallery, Skeleton, Tall Case, Regulator, Eddystone Lighthouse, Act of Parliament, Lyre, Massachusetts Shelf, Improved Timepiece and 30-Hour Primitives.

Admission is charged. Reservations are requested for groups of 8 and larger. Arrangements can be made for light refreshments and evening tours. Please see "Hours and Fees" page for current hours and admission fees.

Special events and workshops are also held during the year for both children and adults. See our current events page. The Museum Shop offers books on Willard clocks and related items, gifts, souvenirs, clock, antiques and collectible glassware and is open during museum hours. Sample items can be ordered by phone or email. See page for directions to museum.

Consider becoming a member. Benefits include full online slide show tour of the museum, online picture catalog of the museum's inventory, free admission, use of the museum's research facilities, quarterly newsletter, and more. See membership page.

On February 26, 2010, Collector's Weekly featured an interview with one of our trustees, Gary Sullivan. See the full text of the interview here.

Click here for text of lecture given at the Museum's 30^th Anniversary by John C. Losch. [This document is in Adobe Acrobat format. If you do not have Acrobat reader on your computer you can get it here free: http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/ .]