Center for photography
Winterthur
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Fotomuseum Winterthur (Photo Museum Winterthur)
The Photo Museum Winterthur is the only museum of photography in the German speaking part of Switzerland. It is located in a converted factory. Photography in all its variety is presented in changing exhibitions, lectures and publications. It is a place for photography as an art form and a visual documentation of reality.
Fotostiftung Schweiz (Photo Foundation Switzerland)
The Fotostiftung Schweiz (Swiss Foundation for Photography) was founded in 1971 and is committed to the preservation, discovery and referral of photographic work. It takes care of an archive and a collection, which to date comprises more than 30 bequests and approximately 30,000 original prints of outstanding photographers.
Winterthur's phototography museum was founded in 1993 and is dedicated to photography as an art form and as documentation of reality. Photo Museum Winterthur is on one hand an art museum for photographs by contemporary photographers, on the other hand it is a classical museum for 19th and 20th century masterpieces.
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- Fotomuseum Winterthur
Grüzenstrasse 44+45
8400 Winterthur
Tel. +41 (0)52 234 10 60
Mobile +41 (0)52 234 10 34
Fax +41 (0)52 233 60 97
fotomuseum@fotomuseum.ch
www.fotomuseum.ch

