Enjoy a musical and whimsical day out at Utrecht's Speelklok Museum, and surround yourself with 'live' music performed by a huge collection of self-playing instruments. With more clocks, music boxes, orchestrions, and street organs that you can wave a conductor's baton at, it's a showcase of ingenious engineering and fascinating insight into life before the iPod.

Explore centuries of self-playing instruments and musical automata dating as far back as the 1600s.

Everything at the Speelklok Museum has been lovingly restored to its original working condition, so strolling through the museum is like being surrounded by your own personal symphony as the various contraptions are brought to sonorous life.

Kids will love checking out all the musical 'robots', and there's plenty of interactive displays and hands-on experiences that show exactly what makes them tick.

Getting There

• Train to Utrecht Central Station + a 10-minute walk
• Bike: Park your bike near the museum in the free covered bicycle parking at Zadelstraat. It is also possible to park your bike at the Central Station, or behind the museum
• Bus: Line 2 from Central Station to Domplein
• Car: Parking at Springweg or Hoog Catharijne, or with P + R Utrecht