The Bell and Carillon Museum (French: Musée de la Cloche et du Carillon; Dutch: Klokken- en Beiaardmuseum) was a museum from 1992 to 2013 in Tellin in the Belgian Ardennes.
The museum was established in a bell foundry that was in service between 1830 and 1970. Beside bells and carillons it showed other objects, like weather-vanes that had been on church towers. There was also a documentary film shown on the process of molding.Ardennen, Klokken- en Beiaardmuseum in Tellin
The exploitation of the museum cost the municipality 35,000 euro on a yearly base. As a result it was decided on 28 February 2013 to close the museum at the end of the year.RTBF, Tellin: le Musée de la Cloche et du Carillon fermera ses portes fin 2013, 1 March 2013 The year after the museum was obtained by the artisan and clock renovator Olivier Baudri that based its atelier there,L'Avenir, Tellin: la fonderie des cloches est vendue, 23 January 2014 with the goal to reopen the museum in the future.RTBF, Tellin : Olivier Baudri, artisan campanaire, 7 May 2014
It has since been reopened and usually is open 3 days a week (Wed, Fri, Sat) for a total of 13 hours. It is closed during Winter (Mid November to March)
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See also List of museums in Belgium List of music museums
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