On two floors, the museum invites you to discover the history of the image, the photography and the cinema. This interactive and playful museum will allow you to participate in the organized educational animations. This one dedicates itself at the same moment to the conservation and to the exhibition of former materials and to the numerous demonstrations making the film and photographic technique accessible to each. The guest will travel through the long progress of the inventors and the researchers leading us on the way of the cinematograph, since shadow plays, the optical toys, by way of the magic lantern. The opening of the first slice (6 rooms and a library) allows to the guests to travel of the Animation the Image in the Cinematograph by way of the Magic lantern and the Photography

Room Emile REYNAUD
' the image livened up ' The man expressed in images the aspects of the common(current) life by way of:les ANAMORPHOSES, the THAUMATROPE, are FOLIOSCOPES, KALEIDOSCOPES, SHADOW PLAYS, CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIES, PHENAKISTISCOPE, ZOOTROPE in 1834, PRAXINOSCOPE in 1877. All these inventions are to discover in this first room

Room Etienne GASPARD ROBERT says ' ROBERTSON '
Shop windows and models present the big stages of the magic lantern. A small projection room will transport the public in the spectacular of the brilliant image

Room NICEPHORE NIEPCE
This room represents a technological headaway with the photography. This room is equipped with a very big photographic room allowing to see forming the image on the frosted of the device. Devices and photos presented offer a wide panorama of the evolution of the cameras from their beginning FOLDING to patches and to dandruff.

Room Louis LUMIERE
This room is the synthesis of the previous three rooms which brings us quite naturally to the cinematograph. An exhibition of devices redraws the different stages until 1970s.

Room Léon GAUMONT
This room presents devices to the sizes 17,5 mm and 16 mm; this last one remains nowadays for projections in front of one numerous public.

Room Charles PATHE
An importance of the material for amateurs, illustrates, in this room, the technological evolution which gives to the general public the possibility of using more and more successful devices

Musée du Cinéma et de la Photographie
10, rue Georges Remy
54210 Saint-Nicolas-de-Port
Tel : 03.83.45.18.32.
maison-tourisme@saintnicolasdeport.com