Muzeum Fotografii w Zamościu
Private museum in a photo studio on the Rynek Wielki in Zamość, with a thousand cameras, photographs from the 1850s onwards and a photoplastikon.
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About the museum
The museum opened on 22 May 2015 on the initiative of Zamość photographer and collector Adam Gąsianowski. The exhibits, which he has collected since childhood, fill his private photo studio on the ground floor of a tenement house at ul. Staszica 15, on the Rynek Wielki.
The collection includes about six thousand photographs, among them cardboard visiting cards called tekturki, tintypes and more than two thousand glass negatives. The oldest date from the 1850s. They include works by pre-war Zamość photographers, among them Antoni Jabłoński, Jan Strzyżowski and the Suchowierski family.
The collection also includes about a thousand cameras: bellows cameras from around 1850, wooden studio cameras, a Zeiss Ikon spy camera from the 1920s and numerous aerial cameras. In a separate room, enlargers, flash lamps and other equipment are displayed. Since 2013 a columnar photoplastikon, rebuilt by the owner, with 58 stereoscopic images has been in operation.
Highlights
- About six thousand photographs from the 1850s onwards
- About a thousand cameras, including aerial cameras
- Columnar photoplastikon with 58 stereoscopic images
- Glass negatives and works by pre-war Zamość photographers
- Photo studio as an exhibition space
Permanent exhibition
- Zbiory Muzeum Starej Fotografii – Old photographs, negatives, cameras and photographic equipment, as well as a columnar photoplastikon with stereoscopic images.
- Founded
- 2015
- Operated by
- Adam Gąsianowski (muzeum prywatne)
- Director
- Adam Gąsianowski
Admission & discounts
| Adults | 5 zł |
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| Groups | 10 zł per personprice per person for organised groups |
The admission ticket is a postcard; the photoplastikon show is included. Price information comes from the tourist information office in Zamość.
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Plan your visit
| Guided tours | yes |
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| Good to know | Visits take place in the owner's photo studio; on Sundays and outside the stated visiting hours, visits are arranged by phone. The exhibits cover all the walls from floor to ceiling. |
