Preus museum

Preus Museum is the National Museum of Photography in Norway. The museum is placed in Horten in Vestfold. It changed into opened by using Leif Preus as Preus Photo Museum in 1976. The Norwegian kingdom offered the collections in 1995 and moved the museum to Karljohansvern in 2001. The museum turned into installed in 1995, whilst the State offered the collections of the non-public Preus Fotomuseum, which was founded through Leif Preus. Preus museum moved in May 2001 into Magazine A on idyllic Karljohansvern in Horten, an hour's power from Oslo. The marine museum is placed on the flooring of the Preus museum.

The building, which became previously a warehouse for the Norwegian Navy, dates back to the 1860s and turned into tailored to museum functions in 2001 through architect Severe Fen. Today, it's miles National Fortifications that personal the constructing itself. The museum's collections encompass Norwegian and worldwide images, picture albums and diverse other types of pix, cameras and other technical gadgets that illustrate the development of images. Preus Museum also homes a exchange library and has a picture conservator who works with the processing and protection of photographic cloth.