Calorimeters play an important role in experiments operated at present accelerators and will continue to do so in the future. The field of calorimetry is very wide and only a few examples can be reviewed in this paper. As far as present accelerators are concerned, we will describe the performance of a few, recently commissioned, precision electro-magnetic (EM) calorimeters. As an application to future accelerators, we will briefly review the status of calorimetry for the proton-proton experiments at the Large Hadron Collider(LHC). (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.