Important documents
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The National Museum of Photography in 2010 - The National Museum of Photography in 2009
- The National Museum of Photography in 2008
- The year 2007 in the National Museum of Photography
- The National Museum of Photography – How the project is progressing in the 21st Century
Photography museums in the Czech lands
The past
The idea of setting up a photographic centre, house or museum in our country is amongst the oldest because their platform and usefulness is quite evident. The first attempts to establish a photography museum came as early as during the 19th century. For a long time, at the institutions and large exhibitions, photography was perceived as part of the printing trade, and amateur photography was considered a pastime. The definite change in perceiving the meaning and role of photography came about with the exhibition „One Hundred Years of Czech Photography“ in 1939 which showed photography in its whole context - from its use in science to its artistic form, from a trade to a method of communication. After 1948 many photographic archives and documents were delapidated, and the museums, archives and landmark buildings had only a marginal interest in photography. The first nationwide collection of art photography was founded at the Moravian Gallery in 1962. The fathers of the idea of a modern photography museum – already called the National Museum of Photography – were Erich Einhorn and Rudolf Skopec in 1960. The idea of a Museum of Photography and Cinematography was nearly accomplished – all the way to the architectonic project – in Tábor during the early 90´s, as was a similar idea of Anna Fárová in Vinohrady, Prague. Various centres of photography whose importance exceeded their regions were founded as early as the end of the 80´s (The Prague House of Photography, Gallery 4 in Cheb). In the enthusiasm of the 90´s a profusion of associations with an interest in photography were established (The Czech Photo, The Photography Centre and others.)
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