Museo Archivio di Fotografia Storica (MAFoS)

About the museum

The museum of the Istituto centrale per il catalogo e la documentazione (ICCD) was established in 1996, but the idea dates back to 1986, when the institute organised a small exhibition of antique cameras for the Settimana dei Beni Culturali (Cultural Heritage Week). That initiative gave rise to the project of a museum which, alongside a permanent display of 19th- and 20th-century instruments, would bring together activities linked to the conservation, use and promotion of the ICCD's historical photographic holdings.

Ten years later the MAFoS, the Museo Archivio di Fotografia Storica, was founded, bringing together a museum, archive, library and research centre devoted to historical photography. The permanent display of cameras and photographic instruments is on the ground floor of the so-called Conservatorio delle Zitelle, in the San Michele a Ripa Grande complex, and is complemented by five rooms for temporary exhibitions.

Highlights

• Cameras and photographic instruments from the 19th and 20th centuries
• Museum, archive, library and research centre in one place
• Located in the Conservatorio delle Zitelle, San Michele a Ripa Grande complex
• Reading room and bibliographic research

Founded

1996

Operated by

ICCD – Ministero della Cultura

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The museum is at Via di San Michele 18, in the San Michele a Ripa Grande complex.

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