Museum of Photography, Art museum in Charlottenburg, Germany
The Museum of Photography occupies a former military officers' building from the early 20th century located next to Zoologischer Garten station in Berlin. The space hosts both permanent and temporary exhibitions covering photography from its earliest forms to contemporary work.
The neoclassical building was designed by Heino Schmieden and Julius Boethke as the officers' mess of the Landwehr-Inspektion Berlin and inaugurated on 2 September 1909 in the presence of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Heavily damaged in the Second World War, it was bought by the Berlin Senate in 1950 and given to the Kunstbibliothek; from 1978 to 1986 the Berlinische Galerie exhibited here. The photography museum opened on 3 June 2004, and the two-storey Kaisersaal was fitted out as exhibition space from 2008 to 2010.
The museum houses a permanent exhibition of Helmut Newton's work that reflects his personal vision and approach to fashion and portrait photography. The collection shows how this photographer expanded the boundaries of the medium and introduced new ways of seeing through images.
The museum stands at Jebensstraße 2, directly opposite the Zoologischer Garten railway station in Charlottenburg. The Helmut Newton Foundation holds the ground floor and first upper floor on a permanent basis, while the Kaiser Hall on the second upper floor was fitted out as exhibition space between 2008 and 2010. The building is a listed architectural monument.
The museum opened on 3 June 2004 with the double exhibition Us and Them and Sex and Landscapes, attended by Helmut Newton's widow June, herself a photographer under the pseudonym Alice Springs. Since November 2004, the ground floor has shown Helmut Newton's Private Property, with cameras, notebooks and parts of his Monte Carlo office.
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