Photographic history museum in Uhingen’s Berchtoldshof with around 750 cameras, a historic studio and a darkroom.
From January 11, 2026
The 2026 temporary exhibition shows cameras by little-known manufacturers such as Voss, Eumig, Rüdenberg, Kowa and Taron, often of high technical quality, and brings these forgotten devices back into view.
The core of the museum is the private collection of the Uhingen photojournalist Wilhelm Pabst (1921–2009), which he assembled over several decades together with his wife Gertraud. The couple handed the collection over to the town of Uhingen; a trust foundation with its own advisory board was set up to run the museum. The Foto-Museum opened in Uhingen town hall on 12 December 2003.
Since then the volunteer working group of the “Fotoschwaben” has looked after the museum. After 19 years in the town hall, the museum moved in January 2023 to the ground floor of the Berchtoldshof, the oldest building in the town.
Around 750 selected pieces are on display, while more than 5,000 further cameras and accessories are kept in storage. The exhibition leads chronologically from the beginnings of photography in 1839 to digital technology: early plate and roll-film cameras, the first box cameras, early Leica, Contax and Exakta models, stereo, miniature and detective cameras, and top Japanese models from the 1970s onwards. There are also replicas of the Daguerre camera and of Voigtländer’s first all-metal camera, a photo studio from around 1900 and a fully equipped darkroom. Annual changing exhibitions take up special topics in analogue photography.
Admission is free.
| Groups | –Individual group tour for up to approx. 25 people: €50 flat fee |
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Free admission, donations welcome.
According to the museum, it can be visited without barriers.
On request, the museum’s children’s and youth officer offers special tours for children, young people and whole families.
Bahnhof Uhingen · 5-min walk
By regional train to Uhingen station, then about 5 minutes on foot (landmark: Uditorium event hall).
Parking available
Parking in the immediate vicinity at the Uditorium and in the REWE supermarket car park.
By car via Stuttgarter Straße into the town centre, turn into Friedrichstraße at the Eiscafé Oasi; the entrance is on the ground floor of the half-timbered Berchtoldshof.
Get directionsThere are several restaurants and cafés in the immediate vicinity of the museum.
The museum hasn’t published any information on this.
| Guided tours | yes |
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| Good to know | On opening days, members will guide you through the exhibition on request; a printed guide is available. Group tours for up to about 25 people on other dates by arrangement (Ms Simone Bidmon, tel. 07161 9380113). |
