The Latvian Museum of Photography preserves photographs, negatives, cameras and publications documenting the medium in Latvia. Its current public space is in temporary premises at Kronvalda bulvāris 4, following its move from the old town.
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A black-and-white photograph became the first object registered in the Latvian Museum of Photography’s own collection in 1992. Bruno Alsiņš had made it in the 1970s. From that single accession the collection grew to embrace photographs, negatives, cameras, albums and postcards: the tools of picture-making as well as the images people chose to keep.
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- The museum’s historical exhibition opened in 1993 at Mārstaļu iela 8.
- The Strenči workshop collection entered Latvia’s UNESCO Memory of the World national register in 2021.
- The museum moved to temporary premises at Kronvalda bulvāris 4 in 2024.
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