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The National Media Museum

The National Media Museum  is home to over 3.5 million items of historical and cultural significance, and our diverse Collection encompasses some of the finest and most compelling visual material to be found anywhere in the world.

Amongst the Collection are three pivotal firsts – the world’s earliest known surviving negative, the earliest television footage and the camera that made the earliest moving pictures in Britain.

Choose from the National Photography, National Cinematography, National Television and National New Media Collections to explore an online selection of artefacts.

 

National Photography Collection

The National Photography Collection is best regarded as a collection of collections, which comprises the Daily Herald Archive, the Royal Photographic Society Collection, and the Kodak Museum Collection, amongst other world-class objects and images.

The Collection incorporates both aesthetic and technical developments, from the earliest experiments to contemporary digital imaging, including the world’s first negative, an extensive collection of photographic technology, and key images by the most influential photographers of our time.

Diversity is a key strength of the National Photography Collection, in which all major genres, applications and photographic movements are represented.

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