Russian Museum of Photography

The Russian Museum of Photography was established on September 21, 1992 on the initiative of the public organization Nizhny Novgorod Photographic Fund "Dmitriev and Karelin". Since October 2000, the museum has become a state museum. The Museum of Photography is located in a building built in the XIX century, and is protected by law as a monument of history and culture of the Russian Federation, it was here that world-famous photographers worked: Andrei Osipovich Karelin (1837-1906) - the founder of art photography, Maxim Petrovich Dmitriev (1858-1948) - the founder of journalistic photography.

The museum presents photos of 37 Nizhny Novgorod authors - contemporaries of Karelin and Dmitriev - professionals and amateur photographers: M. Khripkov, M. Gagaev, A. Samarin, N. Kuzaev, I. Ivanov, D. Leibovsky, etc. The museum exhibits more than 50 items of photographic equipment, including unique cameras. The earliest are the simplest hand-held box-type cameras of the 70s of the XIX century, designed for glass negatives, as well as the most advanced cameras of the companies "AGFA", "ZEIS-IKON", "GOERZ", "VOIGTLANDER", among them the device of the legendary company "KODAK", the famous "LEIKA", as well as Soviet cameras of the 60 - 70s of the twentieth century, which have now become history, museum exhibits. On the basis of photographs, you can get acquainted with the appearance of Nizhny Novgorod of the XIX - XX centuries, with its streets, squares, churches, cathedrals and monasteries, many of which have not survived to this day, learn the history of the Nizhny Novgorod Fair and the XVI All-Russian Art and Industrial Exhibition of 1896.