Museum für Photographie, Photography museum in Brunswick, Germany
The Museum für Photographie occupies two former customs and guard houses, Torhaus 1 at Helmstedter Straße 1 and Torhaus 2 opposite at No. 171, built as part of Peter Joseph Krahe's Wallring after 1800. The single-storey stuccoed buildings mirror each other and mark the Oker crossing on the old road to Magdeburg. The collection is housed in the Braunschweig city archive and shown in rotating exhibitions in the Torhäuser.
The museum was founded in 1984 when photography was gradually being recognized as its own art form. Since then it has shown how this medium has developed and what place it holds in the modern art world.
The museum displays works by photographers from around the world and supports the city's active artistic scene. Visitors can see how photography is treated as its own form of art here.
The museum sits in central Brunswick and is easy to reach on foot or by public transport. It helps to check opening hours in advance, as these can vary depending on the season or special exhibitions.
The collection is kept at the Braunschweig city archive and shown in rotation at the Torhäuser. It holds early processes such as daguerreotypes, salt and albumen prints and Woodburytypes, made by photographers including Hill & Adamson, Nadar and Julia Margaret Cameron.
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