Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia


The Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia. It hosts special exhibitions on a regular basis and possesses 350.000 vintage prints from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Since 1 November 2006 it is located in the Ospedale di San Paolo, a former pilgrims' hostel that was later transformed into a school. Before that, the museum was in the Palazzo Rucellai and in the premises of the Fratelli Alinari. It was the first museum of Italy to be devoted exclusively to photography.
The collection is continuously expanded with acquisitions and donations and contains works by, among others:
The museum exhibits also thousands of photo albums, cameras, objectives and other objects connected with the history of photography.