Camera_Museum,_Malatya
The Camera Museum (Turkish: Fotoğraf Makinası Müzesi) is a museum in Malatya, Turkey, exhibiting various cameras. It is the country's biggest museum of photographic technology.[1] Established in 2017,[2] it is the biggest museum of its art in Europe and Asia, and ranks third in the world in terms of its collection size.[3]
The museum was established in 2017 with the initiative of the Malatya Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ahmet Çakır by donation of the collection of Engineer Baki Tamer Selçuk, a camera repairman and collector.[2] The museum features 2,023 cameras, including spy cameras, dated from 1876 to today in 44 different segments, over 3,000 accessories in 55 various segments, a cinema and projection room, a darkroom as well as two souvenir shooting corners for indoor and outdoor shots. It is visited by around 120,000 tourists yearly.[3] On average, 50% of the visitors are locals, 35% are domestic and the rest is foreign tourists, who come especially in the summer time.[4]