Collections

• Photo-archive
  (900.000 vintages)
• Negative-archive
  (250.000 original negatives)
• Slide-archive
  (150.000 slides)
• Cameras and objects connected to photographing
  (3000 cameras and photographic equipment)
• Medal-archive
  (1200 photographic exhibition-medals, awards, certificates)
• Poster collection
  (1000 pieces of photographic posters)
• Pre-photographic / pre-cinema collection
  (800 pre-photographic objects, optical games)
• Library
  (3000 volumes of books on the Hungarian and foreign history of photography, and contemporary photography)
• Professional papers collection
  (8000 Hungarian and foreign magazines)
• Document-archive
  (documents connected to the activity of Hungarian studio-photographers, amateurs, art-photographers: personal documents; publications for exhibitions; press-publications; manuscripts)
• Relics
  (personal objects of famous photographers)
• Archive of special printed materials
  (e.g. ex libris dealing with photography, etiquettes, packing materials)
• Stamp-collection
  (stamps connected to photographic topics and events)
• Billboard collection
  (billboards about photo-exhibitions, photographic events)
• Video- and audio-archive
  (250 video- 750 audio-tapes: portrait-films, life-interviews on Hungarian and foreign photographers)
• Postcard collection
  (42.000 postcards, from 1890’s until today)
• Photographer biography database
  (data on the life of Hungarian photographers: about 40 000 biographies of people dealing with photography, bibliographies connected to their work, the location of their photographs)
• Digital photo-archive
  (5000 images from the photo-archive, which were processed on digital media, and ordered into the digital database so far)