Fotomuseum Winterthur
Photography museum in a converted nineteenth-century mill, showing contemporary and historic images.
Fotomuseum Winterthur opened on 29 January 1993 in a brick industrial building of 1877 on Gruzenstrasse, originally a rubber band weaving mill and later used for paper goods and joinery. The collector and patron Andreas Reinhart secured the structure as a cultural space in 1989, and the museum was founded by the writer Urs Stahel, the publisher Walter Keller and the collector George Reinhart. The first exhibition presented Paul Graham's series New Europe in the tall, top-lit former workshops.
The museum shows documentary, artistic and applied photography side by side, and has extended its remit to moving images, online circulation and image-making by machines. Its collection concentrates on work made since about 1960 and includes major holdings of Swiss and international photographers. The site is shared with the Fotostiftung Schweiz, which occupies a neighbouring building at number 45, so that the two institutions form a single photographic quarter with a combined exhibition ticket.
Highlights
- Former 1877 weaving mill converted into top-lit galleries
- Collection of photography made from about 1960 onwards
- Programme covering digital images, video and online visual culture
- Shares its site with the Fotostiftung Schweiz next door
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