Deutsches Kameramuseum, Technology museum in Plech, Germany.
The Deutsches Kameramuseum occupies the upper floor of Plech's primary school at Schulstraße 8, with over 250 square metres of exhibition space. Its camera hall holds original products from Agfa, Leica, Rollei, Kodak and Hasselblad, plus a 1839-to-present timeline in nine display cases. A separate room is dominated by a 4.40-metre wooden reproduction camera built in 1928 by Falz & Werner, with a 70 × 70 cm negative format.
Kurt Tauber, born in 1951 in Dorfprozelten, collected photographic exhibits from the late 1970s and showed them only in a virtual online museum until 2011. In 2008 the Stiftung Kameramuseum Kurt Tauber was established under the administration of the market town of Plech, which owns the exhibits. Rooms opened to the public on 4 December 2011, and the museum was formally inaugurated on 26 May 2012 with an exhibition space of over 250 square metres on the upper floor of the Plech primary school.
The museum keeps a complete photo shop from Rhauderfehn in East Frisia, furniture from 1956 included, rebuilt with its original decorations after the last owner died in 2007. Film order bags, company stamps, plastic shopping bags, gift wrapping paper and the original illuminated signs are on show. An international photo and film fair is held on the first Sunday after Pentecost.
The museum is located in the region between Nuremberg and Bayreuth and is easily accessible by car. Visitors should check opening hours ahead since access is limited.
The museum's largest object is a wooden reproduction camera built by Falz & Werner in 1928, 4.40 metres long and taking negatives of 70 by 70 centimetres. It fills much of the room devoted to reproduction technology, laboratory equipment and large-format apparatus, alongside a Zeiss aerial camera and the Robot Primafot self-portrait machine of 1958.
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