Camera and photography museums

A list of camera and photography museums

Americas

Argus Museum image by Voxphoto (Image rights)

USA

• Camera Heritage Museum, 1 West Beverley St, Staunton, VA 24401
• Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave, Rochester, NY 14607
• Argus Museum, 535 West William Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan, open Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Hugh Mangum Photography Museum, West Point on the Eno, 5101 N Roxboro Rd, Durham, North Carolina
• New Mexico Museums

Mexican Casasola Museum/Museo Casasola, 2251 Calle de Santiago in Old Misilla, NM.

Independent view of the Mexican Revolution and the Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa world: Revolution 1910 Review with more than 120,000 negatives

• Texas Museums

Casasola Museum/Museo Casasola, 617 Pancho Villa Street in El Paso, TX.

Museo independiente,memoria colectiva activa.Después de 100 años del inicio de la Revolución Mexicana de 1910 esta fue convertida, por la historia oficial, en una película muda que ya nadie quiere ver o tratar de entender.El Museo Casasola/Casasola Museum exhibe más de 120,000 imágenes de sus colecciones,Cien Años de Realidad, pertenecientes a 4 generaciones de exelentes fotógrafos.

Mexico

• Museo de la Fotografía, Fototeca Nacional, Casasola s/n, Exconvento de San Francisco, Col. Centro, C.P. 42050. Pachuca, Hgo

Canada

Museo Fotografico Simik image by Joey Harrison (Image rights)

• Musée Populaire de la Photographie, 400, rue Heriot, Drummondville (Québec)
• Sherman Hines Museum of Photography, 205 Church Street, Liverpool, South Shore

Argentina

• Museo Fotográfico Simik, Av. Frederico Lacroze 3901, Buenos Aires
• Museo Fotográfico y Archivo Histórico "Adolfo Alexander", Buenos Aires

Brazil

• Museu da Fotografia de Curitiba, R. Presidente Carlos Cavalcanti, 533, Centro, Curitiba, CEP: 80020280

Europe/Africa

Austria

• WESTLICHT - Schauplatz für Fotografie a photography institution with gallery and camera exhibition; Westbahnstraße 40, 1070 Vienna

Belgium

• FotoMuseum, Antwerpen
• Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi

Czech Republic

• Narodni Muzeum Fotografie, Jindřichův Hradec

Denmark

• National Museum of Photography Copenhagen
• Danmarks Fotomueum Herning, currently (2020) temporary closed and waiting for a solution to open again.

Estonia

• Fotomuuseum (site in Estonian), a camera museum; Raekoja t. 4/6, Tallinn 10146

Germany

• Museum für Photographie, Helmstedter Str. 1, 38102 Braunschweig
• Museum für Fotografie, Jebenstrasse 2, Berlin

Fotomuseum Uhingen image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights)

Camera museums

• Deutsches Film- ,Foto- und Fernsehtechnik Museum, Weinstrasse 33, 67146 Deidesheim
• Kamera- und Foto-Museum, Raschwitzer Straße 11-13, 04416, Markkleeberg
• Deutsches Kameramuseum, Schulstraße 8, 91287 Plech (Camera collection Kurt Tauber!!!)

Small camera museums

• Photohistorisches Museum, Kirchstraße 2, 73066 Uhingen, opening times according to this list
• Zeiler Fotomuseum, Schulring 2, 97475 Zeil am Main
• Fotomuseum Görlitz, Löbauer Straße 7, 02826 Görlitz
• Dr. Robert Gerlich Museum, Burg 1, D-84489 Burghausen
• Kameramuseum des Kulturring Heuchelheim-Kinzenbach e.V., Wilhelmstr. 36, 35452 Heuchelheim-Kinzenbach, Tel. 0641-62394 (call necessary, no regular opening times)

Photographic film museum

• Industrie- und Filmmuseum Wolfen, Chemiepark Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Areal A, OT Wolfen, Bunsenstr. 4, 06766 Bitterfeld-Wolfen (former Agfa/Orwo factory)

Photography departments of technical museums

Musée Niepce image by Geoff Harrisson (Image rights)

• Technische Sammlungen, Junghansstraße 1-3 (Ernemann buildings), 01277 Dresden, collection Photographie und Kinematographie and exhibition Heinrich Ernemann. Fotoindustrie und Bilderwelten (exhibition opens 14. June 2007)
• Deutsches Museum, Museumsinsel 1, 80538 München, exhibition Foto+Film (opens 7. May 2007)
• Optisches Museum, Carl-Zeiss-Platz 12, 07743 Jena
• Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin (DTMB), Trebbiner Str. 9, 10963 Berlin-Kreuzberg (History of foto technology)
• Optik Industrie Museum Rathenow, Kulturzentrum Rathenow GmbH, Märkischer Platz 3, 14712 Rathenow

France

• Musée français de la photographie, 78, rue de Paris, 91570 Bièvres
• Musée Nicéphore Niépce, 28, Quai des Messageries, 71100 Chalon sur Saône

Greece

• Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire image by Tony Fisher (Image rights)

Great Britain

• Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock Abbey, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 2LG, England

Photography departments of technical museums

• Photography Department of the National Media Museum; Bradford, BD1 1NQ

Italy

• Museo Fotografia Contemporanea, Milano
• Musei Lodi, Cavenago d'Adda

Netherlands

• Fotografica Museum Zoetermeer (in Dutch), Van Aalstlaan 24, 2722 RL, Zoetermeer
• Cameramuseum Zierikzee (in Dutch), Visstraat 12, 4301CC Zierikzee Currently closed, they will be moving to other premises soon.

Poland

• Muzeum Historii Fotografii (Photography History Museum), Józefitów 16, 30-045 Kraków

Portugal

• Museu da imagem, Braga
• Casa Estúdio Carlos Relvas, Lg. D. Manuel I, 2150-128 Golegã

Russia

• The Russian museum of Photography, 9а Piskunova Str., Nizhny Novgorod

Spain

• Photomuseum, Zarautz (Basque Country)

Slovakia

• Jozefa Maximiliána Petzval Museum, Petzvalova 30, 059 01 Spišská Belá

Sweden

• Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm

South Africa

• Bensusan Museum of Photography, MuseuMAfricA, 121 Bree Street, Newtown, Johannesburg

Australasia

Thailand

• Museum of Imaging Technology in Chulalongkorn-University

Japan

• Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
• Shotaro Akiyama Photo Art Museum, Minato-ku, Tokyo
• Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography Nara City, concentrating on photographs by Irie Taikichi, Nara
• Shoji Ueda Museum of photography, concentrating on photographs by Ueda Shōji
• Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts
• Shiro Shirahata Photo Gallery, concentrating on works by Shirahata Shirō
• Ken Domon Museum of Photography
• JCII Photo Salon, see below (JCII Camera Museum)

Lishui Photography Museum of China image by Bill Lehane (Image rights)

Camera museums

• JCII Camera Museum, JCII Ichiban-cho Bldg., Ichiban-chō 25, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0082 Japan
• Fukuoka camera museum

Korea

• Korea Camera Museum Ansan-si gyeonggi-do korea

Israel

• Tel Hai Museum of Photography

China

• Lishui Photography Museum of China (pictured here)

Australia

• Michael's famous Camera Museum, Melbourne
• Australian Centre for Photography, 72 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, NSW, 2010

Other camera museum lists

• international photography museum list of International Center of Photography (archived)
• Camera-wiki.org link list, online museums
• 4 Japanese Photography Museums, article of Photobibliothek Switzerland
• selection of Photography Museums and Collections