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.