Museu de Fotografia da Madeira - Atelier Vicente's

About

The Madeira Museum of Photography - Atelier Vicente's is based on a nineteenth-century photography studio, which has gone through four generations of the same family. Originally acquired in 1865 by Vicente Gomes da Silva (1827-1906), survives complete with all his equipment, cameras, books, sets, furniture and with a unique photographic heritage of several families who posed at his studio. Currently, the collection includes, besides Vicente’s assets, the work of other professional and amateur photographers such as João António Bianchi, Viscount Vale Paraíso (1862–1928); Charles Courtney Shaw (1878–1971); Gino Romoli (1906–1982); João Francisco Camacho (1833-1898); Perestrellos Photographos (1890-1998); Alexander Lamont Henderson (1838–1907) and Joaquim Augusto de Sousa (1853–1905) to name a few. It also presents the history of photographic processes, from the daguerreotype to the first color photographs, including the magic lantern devices and stereoscopy.

At a glance

• Typical visit: about 30 minutes