The Virtual Museum of Photography is an extensive portal that allows free browsing of photographic collections developed by the Archeology of Photography Foundation, and also selected collections of other institutions like Jewish Historical Istitute or Magnetic Fields Foundation.
The portal primarly functions as an online database with more than 80 000 objects from more than 20 collections, which can be browsed in many ways and the results easily filtred.
At the same time, in addition to the database, Virtual Museum also contains articles – short problem essays written by researchers, journalists, writers, curators. This is an alternative way of learning about the photos from the database and also a tool for expanding knowledge about the history, theory and interpretation of photography.
We would like the Virtual Museum to be also a link to similar projects, hence at the bottom of the page you can find links to other Polish and global databases sharing photographic collections online.
The project stems from the need to share photographic collections on the Internet, and all images posted here can be viewed free of charge and without restriction, but their publication or public display requires appropriate licenses.
We are still working on our database, it is currently available only in Polish. If you experience difficulties using it, please contact us: fundacja@faf.org.pl
