Photo Antiquities in Pittsburgh, PA

Housed in a quaint multi-story storefront with stately red awnings, the Photo Antiquities Museum in Pittsburgh, PA is definitely a rather interesting turn when it comes to plugging the requisite museum tours into your travel itinerary. If you are interested in photography and its history, you will want to make time to stop in for a visit.

Located on Ohio Street near the Allegheny General Hospital, the museum is closed on Sundays and Tuesdays as well as major holidays. However, the remainder of the days, the Photo Antiquities Museum of Photographic History is open from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. There are guided tours available and it is important to note that exhibits change each month to highlight various period of history. In addition, you can order your own photos from most images you see as the museum holds over 100,000 negatives to these images for easy reproduction purposes.

While at the museum, you will get a quick history lesson on photography in a very atmospheric Victorian setting. You almost get the feeling that you are in a different era. You will learn more about the preservation of photography and get to view some of the old cameras, accessories and even old images that were reproduced from the old equipment back in the day. The silver coated copper plates used for the first commercially produced photographs are a far cry from our digital images we are all comfortable with today. You will truly see that photography has come a long way!