This is a list of Foucault pendulums in the world.
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Country Facility Location String Bob Image Notes/Citations Pöllau Abbey Pöllau
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Period : sec Mass : 32.0 kg Google Streetview Citations: Vienna Museum of Science and Technology Vienna
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Citations: Buinyts'ke field Bujnicki, Mogilev region
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Citations: Maksim Tank Belarusian State Pedagogical University Minsk
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deg/day On 8 May 1951, the experiment was held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Foucault's first pendulum experiment. Citations: Armand Pien Public Observatory Ghent, East Flanders
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Citations: Festraetsstudio Sint-Truiden
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deg/day 22.35 m
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deg/day 25.5 m
Period : sec Mass : 37.0 kg
Citations: Letná Water Tower Prague
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Period : sec Mass : 34.0 kg Citations: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University Prague
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deg/day 21.0 m
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deg/day 11.0 m
Period : sec Mass : 32.5 kg Citations: University of Copenhagen Copenhagen
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deg/day 25.0 m
Period : sec Mass : 130.0 kg
Citations: Trafiktårn Øst Copenhagen
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Citations: University of Tartu Museum Tartu
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deg/day 16.78 m
Period : sec Mass : 75.0 kg
Citations: Water Tower, Eurajoki Eurajoki, Satakunta
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deg/day 40.0 m
Period : sec Mass : 110.0 kg Google Streetview Citations: University of Turku Turku, Southwest Finland
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Citations: Musée du Temps Besançon, Doubs
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deg/day 13.11 m
Period : sec Mass : 17.5 kg
Citations: Près-la-Rose Science Park Montbéliard, Doubs
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deg/day 15.0 m
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deg/day 12.5 m
Period : sec Mass : 28.3 kg Google Streetview
Citations: Panthéon Paris
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deg/day 67.0 m
Period : sec Mass : 28.0 kg This is the place where Léon Foucault conducted his public experiment in 1851. The pendulum experiment has been recreated here since 1995.
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Citations: Château de Pignerolle Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou, Maine-et-Loire
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deg/day 20.0 m
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Citations: SAP, Headquoters Baden-Württemberg
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deg/day 10.96 m
Period : sec Mass : 68.7 kg
Live Camera Citations: Helmholtz-Gymnasium Heidelberg Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg
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deg/day 20.0 m
Period : sec Mass : 12.0 kg Live Camera Citations: Deutsches Museum Munich, Bavaria
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deg/day 60.0 m
Period : sec Mass : 30.0 kg
Citations: German Museum of Technology Berlin
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deg/day 18.0 m
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Citations: WISTA Berlin
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deg/day 16.0 m
Period : sec Mass : 25.0 kg Citations: Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Hamburg
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deg/day 19.5 m
Period : sec Mass : 70.0 kg Live Camera Citations: University of Greifswald Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
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deg/day 16.0 m
Period : sec Citations: Phänomenta Lüdenscheid Lüdenscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia
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Citations: Dominican Church Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia
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deg/day 28.75 m
Period : sec Mass : 48.0 kg An installation by Gerhard Richter: "Two Gray Double Mirrors for a Pendulum".
Citations: Gymnasium Verl Verl, North Rhine-Westphalia
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Period : sec Mass : 1.75 kg Citations: University of Koblenz Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate
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deg/day 12.18 m
Period : sec Google Streetview Citations: Water Tower, Rockenhausen Rockenhausen, Rhineland-Palatinate
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deg/day 10.72 m
Period : sec Mass : 30.0 kg The Foucault pendulum was installed when the interior of the water tower used to supply water to steam locomotives at the station was renovated in 2021. Citations: University of Trier Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate
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deg/day 27.0 m
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Citations: Technical Collections, Dresden Dresden, Saxony
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deg/day 10.8 m
Period : sec Mass : 35.0 kg Citations: Jahrtausendturm Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt
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deg/day 41.7 m
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deg/day 10.4 m
Period : sec Mass : 45.0 kg Google Streetview
Citations: Eötvös Loránd University Budapest
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deg/day 20.0 m
Period : sec Mass : 40.0 kg Citations: Mures-Bréda Castle Lőkösháza, Békés County
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deg/day 15.0 m
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Citations: Orkuveita Reykjavíkur Reykjavík
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Citations: ExperimentGrand Canal Dock railway station Dublin
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deg/day 12.0 m
Period : sec Mass : 23.0 kg Citations: Liceo Scientifico Galileo Galilei in Siena Catania
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deg/day 19.0 m
Period : sec Mass : 30.0 kg
Citations: University of Catania, Department of Physics and Astronomy "Ettore Majorana" Catania
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deg/day 17.0 m
Period : sec Mass : 40.0 kg Citations: RemovedChurch of San Petronio, Bologna Bologna, Emilia-Romagna
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deg/day 19.5 m
Period : sec Mass : 9.0 kgMaterial : Copper
Citations: RemovedMuseo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci in Milano Milan, Lombardy
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deg/day 15.0 m
Period : sec Mass : 25.0 kg Citations: TemporaryTradate Astronomical Observatory FOAM13 Tradate, Lombardy
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deg/day 12.5 m
Period : sec Mass : 15.0 kg Exhibit working on and off on request. Citations: Balì Museum Colli al Metauro, Marche
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deg/day 14.0 m
Period : sec Mass : 20.0 kg Exhibit operated manually only on request. Citations: University of Cagliari Monserrato, Sardinia
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deg/day 10.4 m
Period : sec Mass : 26.0 kg
Live Camera Citations: Villa Mondragone Monte Porzio Catone, Lazio
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deg/day 20.0 m
Period : sec Mass : 13.0 kg Google Streetview
Citations: San Giovanni in Foro, Verona Verona, Veneto
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deg/day A 2017 renovation plan called for the inclusion of the world's largest Foucault pendulum, but this was shelved until a review in 2024. Citations: Liechtensteinisches Gymnasium Vaduz
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Citations: Church of St. Johns, Vilnius Vilnius
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deg/day 35.0 m
Period : sec Mass : 34.0 kg Google Streetview
Citations: Technical University of Moldova Chișinău
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deg/day 17.0 m
Period : sec Mass : 105.0 kg
Citations: Radboud University Nijmegen Nijmegen, Gelderland
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Citations: Grote Kerk, Haarlem Haarlem, North Holland
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Citations: Water Tower, Axel Terneuzen, Zeeland
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Citations: University of Oslo Oslo
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deg/day 14.1 m
Period : sec Mass : 32.0 kg Citations: The Science Factory Sandnes, Rogaland
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deg/day 11.2 m
Period : sec Mass : 60.0 kg Citations: Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag
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deg/day 25.0 m
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deg/day 10.0 m
Period : sec Mass : 52.0 kg Citations: Mill of Knowledge Modernity Centre in Toruń Toruń, Kuyavian–Pomeranian Voivodeship
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deg/day 22.0 m
Period : sec Mass : 35.0 kg Google Streetview
Citations: Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń Toruń, Kuyavian–Pomeranian Voivodeship
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deg/day 15.7 m
Period : sec Mass : 66.6 kg
Citations: Saints Peter and Paul Church, Kraków Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
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deg/day 46.5 m
Period : sec Mass : 25.0 kg
Citations: EC1 Science and Technology Center in Łódź Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship
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deg/day 36.0 m
Period : sec Mass : 121.0 kg Google Streetview Citations: Copernicus Science Centre Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship
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Period : sec Mass : 242.0 kg Google Streetview
Citations: Silesian University of Technology Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship
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Period : sec Mass : 55.0 kg Citations: University of Białystok Białystok, Podlaskie Voivodeship
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deg/day 10.5 m
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deg/day 26.0 m
Period : sec Mass : 64.0 kg
Citations: Jan Kochanowski University Kielce, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
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deg/day 27.0 m
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deg/day 28.5 m
Period : sec Mass : 46.0 kg Google Streetview