Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      Musée de la Photographie

    • Postal Address:

      Av des Marguerites
      Albion
      Mauritius

    • Location:

      5 Rues du Vieux Conseil et W. Churchill

    • Telephone:

      230-2385737

    • Facsimile:

      230-2385737

    • E-mail:

      photo@intnet.mu

    • Director:

      M. Tristan Breville

    • Year founded:

      1966

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Museum

    • Types of source material:

      Archival records
      Artifacts
      Government records
      Music
      Personal papers
      Photographs
      Posters

    • Size:

      More than 700,000 photographs including negatives, daguerreotypes, autochromes, glass, and porcelain, from 1840 on.

    • Holdings:

      More than 800 cameras,400,000 acetate negatives, 5,000 glass negatives, about 30 daguerreotypes, 10 autochromes from the Lumière brothers, 100,000 photographs, 100 stereoscopic views on glass, 150 authentic 19th c photo frames, 20 old-style photo albums, 9,000 old postcards, 1500 stereoscopic views on paper, 150 years of documentation on Mauritian photography, and 25 hours of film on Maurice and environs since 1939. Specialized library, the Mauritius cinema: 100 years of history on B&W negatives and 20 documentaries on VHS. 5000 posters from Mauritius.

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      French and English

  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      entrance fee (mr 50)

    • Finding tools:

      Card catalogs
      Inventories

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications:

    • Anthologie de la photographie africaine. edition Revue Noire
    • Le Musée de la Photographie. brochure n.d.
    • Une île et san passé. Livres sur les cartes postales mauriciennes, histoire de la photographie mauricienne (edition Pacifique)