Museums of Russia: The exhibition “ROSPHOTO. 15 years. Open collection” in Saint-Petersburg

The State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSPHOTO is the only museum in Russia of federal level photography. ROSPHOTO popularizes Russian photography and preserves Russia's photographic heritage, opens new names in the history of Saint-Petersburg's photography and introduces the public key phenomena in world photography.

In 2017 the museum celebrates its 15th anniversary. The jubilee exhibition, which is opened on July 12, 2017, presents the best original photographs that were submitted to the ROSPHOTO collection from 2002 to 2017. The exhibition unites a wide variety of authors and their works created in the period from the 1850s to the 2000s.

The exposition represents a unique selection of masterpieces from the collection of the museum, numbering more than 25000 items of storage. The exhibition demonstrates the best examples of artistic and professional activities of photographers of the XIX and XX centuries - 100 photographs of more than 90 authors.

Showing the best of photographic heritage collected over 15 years, the museum offers visitors to follow the history of photography from its invention to the present. However, ROSPHOTO not only provides a starting point for understanding photography step by step, but opens its collection in a different sense. The museum invites you to re-open already well-known names in the photo, presenting at the exhibition little-known works of famous photo artists. With the help of multimedia technologies, the exhibition creates space for dialogue with viewers of all ages.

The project goes beyond the exhibition space of the museum: within the framework of the open collection concept, ROSPHOTO is invited to familiarize itself with the part of the collection that was not included in the exhibition, using a mobile application. Also, thanks to the technology of augmented reality, visitors will be able to get in real-time an additional information about authors and works.

The exhibition will run till September 10, 2017.