Stock Photography Museum, or the immense value of the image
It was the graphic urban history of the City of Mexico. Fortunately, someone was lucky enough to find the will to rescue and tenacity to push through a project that seemed almost impossible to recover the material, protect it and make it available to the public.
Today anyone can consult and meet the pictorial history of the street where you live or the park where he grew up. They are more than a hundred years of still images of the Mexican capital.
A museum outside series
Archive Museum of Photography (MAF) was born in late 2006 and is headquartered in the House of Ajaracas, a property that, like the photographic heritage that houses today, was also about to disappear map and the historic center of Mexico City.
About two million photographs attest paving work, construction of buildings and monuments, parks and gardens, installing lighting, or the organization of festivals and events linked to the uses and customs of the defeños, throughout the twentieth century.
What can we find in this photo archive?
The effort to provide public services, water infrastructure or improve the urban image of the largest city in the world has been part of the work of the various governments of Mexico City, the City Council - Government via the Department, up to the current Government of the Federal District, elected since 1997.
The creation of this file responds to the need to preserve our past and gives a value to the photograph historical document that records images through their changes before, during and after of the various works carried out.
Today the MAF 's mission is to organize, store, manage and communicate this graphics memory that represents the reunion with our ancestors and strengthens our identity.
The entrance to this museum is free file and gives you the opportunity not only to meet its collection, but its always interesting to visit temporary exhibitions as well as their facilities were also to be lost. The MAF is open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm.
Republic of Guatemala 34 (Back Cathedral)
Historic Center of Mexico City
Phone: 55 2616 7057
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