SWISS
CAMERA MUSEUM – VEVEY
Photography History on Lake Geneva Riviera
The Swiss
Camera Museum collection was begun in 1971 by Claude-Henry Forney and
the museum
opened in 1979, first in an apartment on the Grande
Place, but moved ten years later to an 18th Century building on the Ruelle
des Anciens-Fossés, connected to the Grande Place by an underground
passage. The permanent exhibition occupies more than 500 square meters
of space on 6 floors of the historic building, telling the story of the
last century and a half of the art and technology of photography. Exhibits
cover the inventors, the advancement of techniques, and a vast collection
of cameras and photographic equipment, from the original Camera Obscuras
and Magic Lanterns and Nickelodeons to the modern digital photography
age.
Easy to spot,
the entrance on the Grande Place looking over the waters of Lake Geneva
is marked by a poster of the turn of the century variety
of carnival photographers set where the subjec'ts head appears in period
costume. The exhibit floors wind upward on stairs from level to level
around the central core of the old building with a dazzling array of
photography. Play with early forms of animation of spinning mirror images
and slits in wheel effects.
Discover
the original 3D of the Stereopticon and Stereoscopic photo viewer
which amazed the Victorian age, long before
the blue aliens of today’s movie theaters. Explore the early
forms of tintypes and ferrotypes, hand-tinting for early color photographs,
the developments of large format bellows cameras to the Rolleiflex
and through the decades to the ccd and beyond.
Among the exhibits are games and hands-on installations of particular
interest to kids. On weekends are programs to create photogenic drawings
using objects exposed against photographic paper, then into the photographic
lab to hand develop the images. Other photography workshops are offered
for both adults and children. The
Swiss Camera Museum in Vevey is open Tuesday to Sunday from 11am to 5:30pm
Admission for
adults is €5.20, Seniors and Students €4,
Children under 16 are free. Audio guides in German and English are available
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