Timexpo Museum

The Timexpo Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut is dedicated to the history of Timex watches and their predecessors dating back to the 1850s. The museum is located in the Brass Mill Commons and its location is marked by a 40 foot high replica of an Easter Island statueCite web|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-6493079_ITM|title=Waterbury, Conn., Approves 40-Foot Statue for City Museum|accessdate=2008-06-09|year=2000-08-19|work=The Waterbury Republican-American] which connects with the museum's archaeology exhibit. The museum is 14,000 square feet with approximately 8,000 dedicated to the two main exhibits: Timex and archaeology.

Waterbury has been known for a long time as the Brass City, despite a decrease in clockmaking in the region over time and it is a former brass mill building, and the executive offices of the Scovill Manufacturing Company,Cite web|url=http://www.freestone-inc.com/pubs/Timexpo.pdf|title=A Home for Time - The Timexpo Museum|accessdate=2008-06-09|year=2001-10-21|author=D.A. Narducci III|work=The Waterbury Republican American] that houses the Timexpo Museum, whose exhibits go back as far as the founding of the Waterbury Clock Company in 1857.Cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=HANP&p_multi=WLBB&p_theme=hanp&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10F590FA164F0621&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Timexpo Museum|accessdate=2008-06-09|year=2004-03-18|work=The Wilton Bulletin] Timex was the corporate successor of the Waterbury Clock Company.Cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4D91630F937A15755C0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all|title=Residue from Industrial Past Haunts State|accessdate=2008-06-09|year=2001-06-24|author=Fred Musante|work=The New York Times]

The museum focuses on important moments of Timex' history, including an exhibit on the U.S. Army commissioning Timex in 1917 to provide wristwatch versions of the Yankee pocketwatch for soldiers heading overseas,Cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BG&p_theme=bg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F7B12FE4195E494&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Connecticut Watch Museum Takes you on a Trip Through Timekeeping|accessdate=2008-06-09|year=2002-12-01|author=Rich Barlow|work=The Boston Globe] but the museum is not limited in scope. It includes aspects of local history, including letters from Mark Twain,Cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CO&s_site=charlotte&p_multi=CO&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EC32C63F0DF4894&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Here & There|accessdate=2008-06-09|year=2001-05-20|work=The Charlotte Observer] who lived for a time in nearby
Hartford, as well as exhibits concerning the travels of settlers across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

The museum was approved to go forward in 1999Cite web|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-6670594_ITM|title=Waterbury, N.Y., Agency Expected to Move Forward on Museum Project|accessdate=2008-06-09|year=1999-09-20|work=Tribune Business News] and finally opened in May 2001. Museum costs were estimated at $4.8 million, with the Naugatuck Valley Development Corp providing approximately $500,000Cite web|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-5683303_ITM|title=Waterbury, Conn.-Area Officials to Seek Funding for Museum|accessdate=2008-06-09|year=1999-08-27|work=Tribune Business News] and Timex funding the rest. The final cost was $5.45 million, including $2 million from the Naugatuck Development Corporation and the Connecticut Department of Economic Development and Community Development.

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* [http://www.timexpo.com/index.html Timexpo the Timex Museum]