Tver Photographers

12 points3 km4 hours

This route lets you dive into the history of photography in Tver and see stereo images of the city as it was a hundred years ago.

Route author

Tver Tourist Information Center

Things to do

📸 Take photos
📜 Learn the city's history

Route points (12)

Iskra Museum of Photography in Tver

Point on route “Tver Photographers”

Point 9

Iskra Museum of Photography

🏛️ Museum

Description

The museum's 12 display cases trace the evolution of photography, from the first mahogany cameras to digital ones. The exhibition is complemented by numerous old photographs that show the changing technologies and the shifts in style and artistic approach. At its core is a private collection of rare cameras and old photographs gathered by the museum's director, Roman Kakotkin. The museum itself was conceived not as a museum of cameras but as a museum of photography, since it is through photographs that we study the history of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Fun Fact

The museum's name comes from the famous phrase “From a spark a flame will flare” and from the name of the Soviet medium-format camera Iskra (Spark).

The Museum's Activities

The museum is an active cultural venue that hosts a large number of leisure events in Tver.