List of Foucault pendulums

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This is a list of Foucault pendulums in the world:

Artistic rendition (highly exaggerated) of a Foucault pendulum showing that the Earth is not stationary, but rotates.

## Contents

* 1 Europe
* 1.1 Austria
* 1.2 Belarus
* 1.3 Belgium
* 1.4 Bulgaria
* 1.5 Czech Republic
* 1.6 Denmark
* 1.7 Estonia
* 1.8 Finland
* 1.9 France
* 1.10 Germany
* 1.11 Hungary
* 1.12 Iceland
* 1.13 Italy
* 1.14 Latvia
* 1.15 Liechtenstein
* 1.16 Lithuania
* 1.17 Luxembourg
* 1.18 Moldova
* 1.19 Netherlands
* 1.20 Norway
* 1.21 Poland
* 1.22 Portugal
* 1.23 Romania
* 1.24 Russia
* 1.25 Serbia
* 1.26 Spain
* 1.27 Sweden
* 1.28 Switzerland
* 1.29 Ukraine
* 1.30 United Kingdom
* 2 Africa
* 2.1 South Africa
* 2.2 Tunisia
* 3 Asia
* 3.1 China
* 3.2 India
* 3.3 Iran
* 3.4 Israel
* 3.5 Japan
* 3.6 Pakistan
* 3.7 Thailand
* 3.8 Turkey
* 4 North America
* 4.1 Canada
* 4.2 Mexico
* 4.3 United States
* 5 Central and South America
* 5.1 Argentina
* 5.2 Brazil
* 5.3 Chile
* 5.4 Colombia
* 5.5 Puerto Rico
* 5.6 Venezuela
* 6 Australasia
* 6.1 Australia
* 6.2 New Zealand
* 7 Antarctica
* 8 References

## Europe

Foucault's Pendulum in the Panthéon, Paris.

### Austria

* Technisches Museum Wien, Vienna
* St. Ruprecht an der Raab, Styria, erected in 2001 in a slim stainless steel pyramid, partially with glass windows; it is worldwide the first to exist outside a closed building: on the street. - Length: 6.5 m, weight: 32 kg[1][2]

### Belarus

* Belarus State Pedagogic University,[3] Minsk

### Belgium

* Volkssterrenwacht Mira, Grimbergen
* Technopolis, Mechelen
* Festraetsstudio, Sint-Truiden
* UGent-volkssterrenwacht Armand Pien[4] Ghent

### Bulgaria

* Public Astronomical Observatory and Planetarium "Nicolaus Copernicus",[5] Varna - Length: 14.4 m

### Czech Republic

* Observatory and Planetarium Hradec Králové,[6] Hradec Králové - Length: 10 m, weight: 8.5 kg
* Czech Technical University,[7] Prague \- Length: 21 m, weight: 34 kg
* Rotunda in Castle Flower Garden,[8] Kroměříž - Length: 25 m, weight: 30 kg

### Denmark

* Steno Museet, Aarhus
* Odense Technical College, Odense
* Geocenter, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen \- Length 25 m, weight: 145 kg

### Estonia

* Department of Physics, University of Tartu[9]

### Finland

* Department of Physics, University of Turku, Turku
* Eurajoki - Length: 40 m, weight: 110 kg
* Finnish Science Centre Heureka, Vantaa
* The watertower of Kuusamo

### France

City | Location | Length
l | Mass
| Period
2πlg | Latitude
ϕ | Pendulum day
23h56′sin⁡ϕ

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Paris | Panthéon  | 220 ft (67 m)  | 28 kg  | 16.5 sec  | 48°52' N  | 31 hours 50 minutes
Paris | Musée des Arts et Métiers[10] |  | 28 kg  |  | 48°52' N  | 31 hours 50 minutes
Besançon  | Musée du Temps (fr)  | 13.11 m  |  | 7.3 sec  | 47°08' N  | 32 hours 43 minutes

### Germany

* [./Https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamikum Dynamikum Science Center], Pirmasens
* Jahrtausendturm,[11] Magdeburg
* Gymnasium Lünen-Altlünen, Lünen
* Gymnasium Verl, Verl
* German Museum of Technology,[12] Berlin
* University of Bremen
* University of Heidelberg[13]
* Helmholtz-Gymnasium Heidelberg
* Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg,[14] Hamburg
* School for Business and Technique, Mainz[citation needed]
* Deutsches Museum, Munich - Length: 30 m, weight: 30 kg
* University of Munich, Geophysics – Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 20 m, 12 kg, live webcam,[15] description[16]
* Münster, 48 kg, 29 m, with mirrors, Zwei Graue Doppelspiegel für ein Pendel by artist Gerhard Richter in a former church, opened 17 June 2018[17]
* University of Osnabrück,[18] Osnabrück, Lower Saxony - Length: 19.5 m, weight: 70 kg
* Gymnasium of the city Lennestadt, North Rhine-Westphalia - Length: 11 m, weight: 50 kg, period: 6.7 s
* Cornelsen Verlag publishing house, Berlin
* Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Schweinfurt
* University of Trier
* University of Konstanz \- N library
* University of Regensburg Physics Building PHY9, 18 m, stainless steel sphere diameter 0.12 m, electromagnetic drive, Charron ring 0.8 m below attachment.
* University of Rostock
* University of Greifswald
* Astronomisch physikalisches Kabinett, Kassel
* University of Göttingen, Physics department
* University of Wuppertal[19]

### Hungary

* Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, in one of the Lágymányosi buildings
* Mures-Breda castle

### Iceland

* Orkuveita Reykjavíkur, Reykjavík power distributor, Reykjavík

### Italy

* Dipartimento di Fisica (LIVE), Università degli Studi di Cagliari
* San Petronio Basilica, Bologna
* Palazzo della Ragione, Padua https://www.labtrek.it/foucault-pendulum/
* Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia (Leonardo da Vinci), Milan
* Museo del Balì, Saltara
* Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università "Federico II", Naples
* Aula Magna of Liceo M. Curie, Tradate
* Liceo Scientifico Galileo Galilei (LIVE), Siena
* Liceo Scientifico Angelo Messedaglia, Verona

### Latvia

* Riga TV Tower - Within proposed renovations of the TV Tower, the intention is to build the world's largest Foucault pendulum with a weight of 500 kg and a length of over 70m. The construction was set to begin in the second half of 2019.[20]

### Liechtenstein

* In the staircase of the national Gymnasium Vaduz, combined with an artwork by Ferdinand Gehr Drehung der Erde in ihrer Schlichtheit sichtbar

### Lithuania

* Vilnius University \- weight 34 kg, length 35 m (built in the 17th century belfry of Sts. Johns' Church of Vilnius University in 2011)

### Luxembourg

* University of Luxembourg - Length: 16 m, weight 32 kg

### Moldova

* Technical University of Moldova, Chişinău - Length: 19 m, Weight 155 kg (2006 - 1851 = 155)

### Netherlands

* Radboud University Nijmegen[21]
* Sint-Bavokerk in Haarlem[22]

### Norway

* Department of Physics, University of Oslo[23] Weight: 32kg, Length: 14.1m
* Realfagbygget, NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) "Weight: 40kg, Length: 25m"
* Science Factory (Vitenfabrikken), Sandnes "Weight: 60kg, Length: 11,17m"

### Poland

* Nicolaus Copernicus Museum[24] Frombork - Length: 28 m, weight: 46.5 kg
* St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Kraków - Length: 46.5 m, weight: 25 kg
* Polytechnic, Gdańsk - Length: 26 m, weight: 64 kg
* Centre for Science and Technology, Łódź - Length: 36 m, weight: around 100 kg
* Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
* Pomeranian Dukes' Castle, Szczecin
* Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw
* Center for Modernity, Mill of Knowledge, Toruń - Length: 33 m, weight: 35 kg

### Portugal

* National Natural History Museum and Science Museum, Lisbon University
* Department of Physics, FCT, University of Coimbra
* Pavilhão do Conhecimento, Parque das Nações, Lisbon
* Centro Ciência Viva de Estremoz

### Romania

* The oldest Foucault Pendulum in Romania is located in pavilion B of the University of Oradea. It was installed in 1964 by Prof. Coriolan Rus, the then dean of the Faculty of Mathematics - Physics. (length: 14m; weight: 60 kg)
* "Vasile Alecsandri" National College in Galați (length: 9,92m; weight: 8 kg)
* A. T. Laurian National College in Botoșani (length: 17,5m; weight: 25,6 kg)
* Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași (length: 19,6m; weight: 28 kg; with electromagnetic drive unit)

### Russia

* Moscow Planetarium
* Novosibirsk Planetarium (14.5 m,[25] 31.7 kg[26])
* Penza Planetarium[27]
* Saint Isaac's Cathedral, Saint Petersburg (pendulum length was 98 m; removed in 1990s)
* Saint Petersburg Planetarium (length: 8 m)
* Smolensk Planetarium (length: 12 m)[28]
* Volgograd Planetarium[29]
* Institute of Geology Komi Sci. Center Ural Div. RAS, Syktyvkar (length: 17 m)[30]
* Murmansk Regional Universal Scientific Library (length: 21 m; weight: 32 kg)

### Serbia

* State University of Novi Pazar, Novi Pazar (length 17 m, weight 28 kg)
* Physics Laboratory Center of Technical Science Faculties of the University of Belgrade (length 9 m, weight 30 kg)[31]

### Spain

* Hall of the Faculties of Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona - Length: 7 m, weight: 20 kg
* Parque de las Ciencias,[32] Granada
* Cosmocaixa Museum, Alcobendas, Madrid
* Facultad de Física, Universidad de Salamanca
* CosmoCaixa Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya
* "Villanueva" Building, National Astronomical Observatory, Madrid
* Pabellón de la Energía Viva,[33] Seville
* Casa de las Ciencias,[34] A Coruña - Length: 14 m, weight: 125 kg
* Museu de les Arts i les Ciències Príncipe Felipe, Valencia - Length: 30 m[35]
* Hall of Faculty of Physics, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela

### Sweden

* Xperimenthuset,[36] Lokstallarna, Växjö - Weight: 32 kg
* Carlsunds utbildningscentrum, Motala, Sweden[37] Weight: 13 kg, Length: 6 m, Theoretical pendulum day: 28h 3 min, Measured pendulum day: 26h 59 min
* Sandvikens Gymnasieskola, Sandviken Weight: 63 kg, Length: 9 m
* Fysikaliska Leksaker, Chalmers, Göteborg
* Ångströmslaboratoriet, Uppsala
* E.ON corporate office, Malmö. Weight: circa 900 kg[38]

### Switzerland

* Centro Professionale Biasca[39] \- Length: 15 m, weight: 102 kg
* Naturmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn
* Gymnasium Oberwil, Basel-Land
* Lycée cantonal de Porrentruy, Porrentruy, Jura

### Ukraine

* Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, length: 22 m, weight: 43 kg[40]

### United Kingdom

Science Museum, London

* The Devonshire Dome, University of Derby, Buxton (Not a permanent feature - May be removed for special events.)[41]
* The Grange School,[42] Cheshire
* Science Faculty, Uppingham School, Rutland. Length 11.5m.
* University of Liverpool Chemistry Department. Length 7.9m. Period 5.6s.
* Science Museum, London. Length 22.45m. Period 9.5s.[43]
* Harris Museum, Preston[44]
* Cattermole Building, Kesteven and Sleaford High School, Sleaford[45]
* HH Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol (Currently removed; may be reinstalled)
* University of Warwick, Coventry
* Atrium of Thames House, headquarters of the British Security Service, in acknowledgement of Umberto Eco's "conspiracy" novel Foucault's Pendulum[46]
* Princes Square shopping centre, Glasgow[47] (Not operating)

## Africa

### South Africa

* Giyani Science Centre, Giyani, Limpopo Province
* Department of Chemistry, University of Pretoria
* Natural Science Museum, Albany Museum Complex, Grahamstown
* Heritage Garden, Stellenbosch
* University Of Natal (Durban, Science Center Building)

### Tunisia

* Cité des Sciences de Tunis

## Asia

### China

* Beijing Planetarium, Beijing
* Guangdong Science Center, Guangzhou

### India

* Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata.
* Science City, Kolkata.
* B. M. Birla Planetarium and Science Museum, Jaipur
* New Parliament Building, New Delhi
* Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University[48]
* Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics,[49] Pune
* Subir Raha Oil Museum, Tel Bhavan, ONGC,[50] Dehradun
* Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
* Regional Science Centre, Near New Alipiri Gate, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh
* Science Centre, Surat
* Regional Science Centre, Pilikula, Near Manglore, Karnataka

### Iran

* University of Isfahan, Isfahan
* Sharif University of Technology, Tehran

### Israel

* BGU, Beer Sheva
* Gitam/BBDO Ltd, Ramat Gan
* Givatayim Observatory, Givatayim
* Weizmann Institute, Rehovot

### Japan

* National Science Museum of Japan, Tokyo
* Fukusai-ji (Fukusai Temple), or Nagasaki Kannon Universal Temple, Nagasaki
* Katsushika City Museum, Tokyo[51]
* Tokyo DisneySea (in the Pendulum Room inside Fortress Explorations), Chiba
* Nagoya City Science Museum, Aichi[52]
* Himeji City Science Museum, Himeji, Kobe[53]
* Kyoto Youth Science Centre, Fuji-no-Mori, Kyoto
* Sapporo City Youth Science Center, Sapporo[54]

### Pakistan

* National Museum of Science and Technology, Lahore

### Thailand

* Khonkaen University, Khon Kaen
* AstroPark, Chiang Mai

### Turkey

* Bilkent University- Faculty of Science, Physics Department, Ankara[55]
* EGE University, Izmir

## North America

Alphabetic by state or province, then place.

### Canada

Province | City | Location | Length | Mass | Period

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Alberta  | Calgary  | Telus Spark  |  |  |
Edmonton  | Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science, University of Alberta  | 23.4 m  | 29.7 kg  | 9.7 s
British Columbia  | Vancouver | Hebb bldg, University of British Columbia  |  |  |
Manitoba  | Winnipeg  | University of Winnipeg |  |  |
Ontario  | Aurora  | McLaughlin Hall, St. Andrew's College  |  |  |
Guelph  | Physics Department, University of Guelph[56] |  |  |
Kingston  | Stirling Hall, Queen's University  |  |  |
Ottawa | Herzberg Building, Carleton University  | 16.7640 m  | 104.78 kg  | 8 s[57]
Toronto  | Ontario Science Centre  |  |  |
Quebec  | Chicoutimi  | Cégep de Chicoutimi  |  |  |
Montreal | Collège de Maisonneuve  |  |  |
Montreal | École de technologie supérieure  |  |  |
Montreal | Roger-Gaudry Pavilion, Université de Montréal  | 8 m  | 10 kg  |

### Mexico

State | City | Location | Length | Mass | Period

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Querétaro  | Querétaro City  | Centro Cultural Manuel Gomez Morin, Museum of Science and Technology[58] | 28 m  | 280 kg  | 9.3 s

### United States

State/province | City | Location | Length | Mass | Period

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Alabama  | Auburn  | Auburn University |  |  |
Birmingham  | Samford University |  |  |
Alaska | Anchorage  | University of Alaska, Consortium Library  | 52 ft (15.8 m)  | 240 lb (108.8 kg)  | 7.9 s
Arizona  | Tempe  | Arizona State University, Bateman Physical Sciences Center  | 70.5 ft (21.5 m)  | 238 lb (108 kg)  | 9.3 s
Arkansas  | Conway  | Hendrix College |  |  |
California | Bakersfield  | California State University Bakersfield Physics Center  |  |  |
Fresno  | Fresno Pacific University | 41 ft (12.5 m)  | 235  | 7.1 s
Long Beach  | Sunnyside Mausoleum, Forest Lawn  |  |  |
Los Angeles | Griffith Observatory  | 40 ft (12.2 m)  | 240 lb (108.8 kg)  | 7.01 s
Los Angeles | Occidental College |  |  |
Modesto  | Modesto Junior College Science Community Center[59] | 42 ft (12.8 m)  | 250 lbs  | 7.2 s
Monterey  | Naval Postgraduate School |  |  |
Napa  | Stag's Leap Wine Cellars  |  |  |
Pleasant Hill  | Diablo Valley College  |  |  |
Riverside  | UC Riverside Physics Department  |  |  |
Sacramento  | California Department of Education lobby installation by artist Jud Fine[60] |  |  |
Salinas  | Hartnell College  |  |  |
San Diego  | San Diego Natural History Museum  | 12.4 m (est.)  | 235 lb (106.6 kg)  | 7 s (estimate)
San Francisco | California Academy of Sciences  | 30 ft (9.14 m)  | 235 lb (106.6 kg)  | 6.1 s
San Francisco | Calico Labs  |  |  |
San Jose  | Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum & Planetarium  |  |  |
San Jose  | The Harker School  |  |  |
Santa Barbara  | Museum of Natural History  |  |  | Currently inoperable
Santa Paula  | Thomas Aquinas College  |  |  |
Colorado  | Alamosa  | Adams State College  |  |  |
Boulder  | CU Boulder, Gamow Physics Tower[61] | 128.9 ft (39.3 m)  | 367 lb (166 kg)  | 12.6 s
Colorado Springs  | UCCS, Osborne Center for Science and Engineering  |  |  |
Fort Collins  | Colorado State University |  |  |
Golden  | Colorado School of Mines |  |  |
Connecticut  | Avon  | Avon Old Farms School  |  |  |
Greenwich  | Greenwich High School  |  |  |
Hartford  | The Children's Museum[62] |  |  |
Florida  | Avon Park  | South Florida Community College  |  |  |
Cocoa  | Brevard Museum of History & Natural Science  |  |  |
Jacksonville  | Museum of Science & History  |  |  |
Miami  | Miami Dade Junior College  |  |  |
Orlando  | John Young Museum  |  |  |
Orlando  | University of Central Florida, Mathematical Sciences Building[63] |  |  |
Stuart  | The Elliott Museum[64] |  |  |
Tallahassee  | Florida State University |  |  |
Tampa  | University of South Florida, Interdisciplinary Science Building  |  |  |
Georgia  | Cartersville  | Tellus Science Museum  |  |  |
Mount Berry  | Berry College |  |  |
Idaho  | Boise  | Discovery Center of Idaho  |  |  |
Illinois  | Batavia  | Robert Rathbun Wilson Hall, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory  |  |  |
Chicago | Museum of Science and Industry  | 65 ft (20 m)  | 300 kg | 8.98 s
Chicago | Museum of Science and Industry (has 2)  |  |  |
Rockford  | Rock Valley College  |  |  |
Wheaton  | Wheaton College |  |  |
Indiana | Indianapolis | Indiana State College  |  |  |
Indianapolis | Indiana State Museum  |  |  |
Iowa  | Des Moines  | Science Center of Iowa[65] | 41 ft (12 m)  | 235 lb (107 kg)  | 7 s
Kansas | Hays  | Fort Hays State University |  |  |
Wichita  | Exploration Place  |  |  |
Kentucky  | Berea  | Berea College |  |  |
Danville  | Centre College |  |  |
Georgetown  | Georgetown College  |  |  |
Highland Heights  | Northern Kentucky University |  |  |
Lexington  | Lexington Public Library  |  |  |
Louisville  | Kentucky Science Center  |  |  |
Louisville  | Museum of Natural History  |  |  |
Louisville  | University of Louisville | 72 ft (22.0 m)  |  | 9.4 +/- 0.05 s
Louisiana  | Shreveport  | Sci-Port Discovery Center  | 32 ft (9.7 m)  | 113 kg (250 lb)  |
Maine  | Portland  | University of Southern Maine |  |  |
Maryland  | Annapolis  | St. John's College  |  |  |
Colora  | West Nottingham Academy  |  |  |
Frostburg  | Frostburg State University |  |  |
Severna Park  | Severn School  |  |  |
Massachusetts | Boston  | Museum of Science  |  |  |
Lexington  | MIT Lincoln Laboratory[66] | 52 ft (15.8 m)  |  | 8.0 s
Northampton  | Smith College | 43 ft (13.1 m)  | 235 lb (106.6 kg)  | 7.27 s
Osterville  | Cape Cod Academy  |  |  |
Springfield  | Springfield Science Museum  |  |  |
Michigan  | Alpena  | Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan[67] |  |  |
Detroit  | Detroit Science Center  |  |  |
Grand Haven  | Grand Haven High School  |  |  |
Grand Rapids  | Steelcase Corporate Development Center |  |  |
Midland  | Midland Center for the Arts  |  |  |
Minnesota  | Collegeville  | St. John's University  |  |  |
Minneapolis  | The Blake School[68][69] |  |  |
St. Paul  | Macalester College |  |  |
Missouri  | Sullivan  | Meramec Caverns |  |  | Inoperable due to insufficient mass
Montana  | Billings  | First Citizens Bank  |  |  |
Nebraska  | Kearney  | University of Nebraska at Kearney |  |  |
Nevada  | Las Vegas  | Las Vegas Public Library  |  |  |
Las Vegas  | Lied Discovery Children's Museum  |  |  |
Reno  | University of Nevada, Reno, Schulich Lecture Hall  |  |  |
New Hampshire  | Bedford  | Dean Kamen's house  |  |  |
Hanover  | Dartmouth College, Sherman Fairchild Physical Sciences Center  | 70.1 ft  | 260.0 lb  | 9.3 s
New Jersey  | Morristown  | Delbarton School  |  |  |
New Mexico  | Albuquerque  | Albuquerque Academy[70] | 9 m (30 ft)  | 100 kg (200 lb)  | 6 s
New York  | Bronx  | Montefiore Medical Center  |  |  |
Buffalo  | Buffalo Museum of Science  | 75 ft (22.9 m)  | 100 lb (45 kg)  | 9.6 s
Geneseo  | State University of New York at Geneseo | 52 ft (15.8 m)  | 235 lb (107 kg)  | 8.0 s
Ithaca  | Cornell University, Rockefeller Hall  |  |  |
Manhattan  | United Nations General Assembly Building at the United Nations headquarters. Since 1955, a gift from the government of The Netherlands  | 75 ft (22.9 m)  | 200 lb (91 kg)  | 8.5 sec.[71]
Mineola  | Chaminade High School[72] | 30 ft (9 m)  | 200 lb (90 kg)  | 6 s
North Carolina  | Fayetteville  | Fayetteville State University |  |  |
Greensboro  | Greensboro Science Center  |  |  |
Greensboro  | North Carolina A&T State University  |  |  |
Winston-Salem  | Kaleideum North  |  |  |
Ohio  | Canton  | William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum  |  |  |
Cincinnati  | Xavier University  |  |  |
Cleveland  | Cleveland Museum of Natural History  |  |  |
Cleveland  | Cleveland State University, Fenn Tower  |  |  | currently inoperable
Columbus  | COSI Columbus[73] | 38.5 ft (11.7 m)  |  | 6.9 s
Dayton  | University of Dayton  |  |  |
Marietta  | Marietta College, Rickey Science Center  |  |  |
Oxford  | Miami University, Culler Hall  |  |  |
Portsmouth  | Shawnee State University |  |  |
Oklahoma  | Edmond  | University of Central Oklahoma, Howell Hall  |  |  |
Norman  | University of Oklahoma, Nielsen Physics Building  |  |  |
Oklahoma City  | Science Museum Oklahoma  |  |  |
Oregon  | Portland, Oregon | Oregon Convention Center  | 88.5 ft (27 m)  | 900 lb (408 kg)  | 10.4 s
Pennsylvania  | Cheyney  | Cheyney State Museum  |  |  |
Clarion, Pennsylvania  | Clarion University  |  |  | Currently Inoperable[74]
Edinboro  | Edinboro University of Pennsylvania |  |  |
Indiana  | Indiana University of Pennsylvania |  |  | Currently Inoperable[75]
Kutztown  | Kutztown University  |  |  |
Mechanicsburg  | Messiah Village's Community Room  | 55 ft (16.8 m)  | 350 lb (159 kg)  | 8.2 s
Millersville  | Millersville University of Pennsylvania |  |  |
Philadelphia  | Franklin Institute  | 85 ft (27 m)  | 80 kg | 10 s
Pittsburgh  | Children's Museum of Pittsburgh[76] |  |  |
Pittsburgh  | Duquesne University[77] | 24 ft (7.3 m)  | 18 lb (8.2 kg)  | 5.4 s
Shippensburg  | Shippensburg State College  |  |  |
South Carolina  | Clemson  | Clemson University, Kinard Laboratory of Physics[78] |  |  |
South Dakota  | Sioux Falls  | Augustana University, Froiland Science Complex[79] |  |  |
Tennessee | Collegedale  | Southern Adventist University, Hickman Science Center  | 11.8 m  | 88.4 kg  | 6.89 s
Nashville  | Adventure Science Center  |  |  |
Texas | Austin, Texas | Science Engineering Comp[69] |  |  |
Austin, Texas | University of Texas at Austin, DEV Building[80][81] | 40 ft (12 m)  | 240 lb  | 7 s
College Station  | Texas A&M University, George P. Mitchell Physics Building[82][83] | 85 ft (26 m)  | 235 lb | 10.23 s
College Station  | Texas A&M University, Zachry Engineering Center (removed; year unknown)  |  |  |
Houston  | Houston Museum of Natural Science[84] | 60 ft (18 m)  |  | 8.6 s
Odessa  | Unitarian-Universalist Church[85] |  |  |
San Antonio  | Tex Hill Middle School[86][87] | 37.75 ft (11.51 m)  | 235 lb (107 kg)  | 6.8 s
Utah  | Orem  | Utah Valley University |  |
Provo  | Brigham Young University, Eyring Science Center  | 47 ft (14.32 m)  |  | 7.6 s
Salt Lake City  | Clark Planetarium  |  |  |
Virginia  | Richmond  | Science Museum of Virginia  |  |  |
Richmond  | University of Richmond, Gottwald Science Center  |  |  |
Washington (state) | Auburn  | Green River College  |  |  |
Ellensburg  | Central Washington University | 34 ft (10.5 m)  |  | 6.4 s
Seattle  | University of Washington | 49.8 ft (15.1 m)  |  | 7.8 s
Spokane  | Spokane Falls Community College  |  |  |
Tacoma  | Harned Hall, University of Puget Sound |  |  |
Washington, D.C. | Museum of History and Technology. Smithsonian Institution (1964–1998)[88][89][90] | 52 ft (16 m)  | 108 kg | 8.0 s
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (removed permanently 2008)  | 68.9 ft (21 m)  | 105 kg | 9.2 s
Wisconsin  | Stevens Point  | University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point |  |  |
Wyoming  | Rock Springs  | Western Wyoming Community College[69] |  |  |
Sheridan  | Sheridan College (Wyoming)[91][92] |  |  |
Casper  | Casper College[93] |  | 235 lb (107 kg)  |

## Central and South America

### Argentina

* School of Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires,[94] Buenos Aires, Argentina (Length: 27.35 m. Period: 10.4 secs)
* Museum of Science and Technology,[95] Engineering School,[96] University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
* Teatro Argentino de La Plata in La Plata, Argentina

### Brazil

* Museu do Universo at the planetarium of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
* PUCRS Museum of Science and Technology, Porto Alegre, Brazil

### Chile

* Centro de Estudios Científicos, Costanera de la Ciencia, Valdivia, Chile
* Colegio San Francisco Javier,[97] Puerto Montt, Chile
* Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences,[98] University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

### Colombia

* Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi in Bogotá, Colombia.

### Puerto Rico

* Physics Department, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez,[99] Puerto Rico

### Venezuela

* Central Library of the Simón Bolívar University in Caracas, Venezuela

## Australasia

### Australia

* Foucault pendulum,[100] School of Physics, University of New South Wales
* Questacon National Science Exhibition, Canberra
* Gravity Discovery Centre[101] Military Rd, Gingin, Western Australia
* School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne
* School of Mathematics, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria
* School of Physics, in the foyer of the Darling West building (previously named Bragg building), University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia.
* Queensland Museum Sciencentre,[102] Brisbane, Queensland
* School of Earth Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart.
* Rosebank College, Five Dock, New South Wales.

### New Zealand

* College of Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

## Antarctica

* South Pole, Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, in the cylindrical stairwell "beer can"[103] \- Length: 33 m, weight: 25 kg, quickest turning Foucault pendulum on earths land, not driven.

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