Collection of the Latvian Museum of Photography

The Latvian Museum of Photography’s collection was established in 1991. The first museum object was registered in 1992 – a black and white photograph “Mūžam zili ir Latvijas sili”  taken by Bruno Alsiņš in the 1970s. Today, the collection consists of around 68 000 items – glass plates, film negatives, slides and photographs, as well as cameras, albums and postcards.

The objects in the museum’s collection are organised in collections, the largest of which is the Strenči Photo Workshop Collection. Photographers Dāvis Spunde, Jānis Ziemeļnieks, his brother Konrāds Krauklis and sister Paulīne Kraukle documented life in Strenči from 1920 to 1950.

The collection also includes several collections by photographers Kārlis Lakše (1892-1949), Juris (1877-1956) and Ģirts (1881-1979) Bokumi, Žanis Legzdiņš (1915-1991), Gustavs Žakerts (1887-1945), Alfrēds Grāvers (1877-1954), Konstantīns Koks (1921-1943), Jāzeps Danovskis (1937-2003), Gunārs Birkmanis (1931-2011) and many others.

From 2024, visitors will also have access to the specialised photography library, which contains around 7,000 books in various languages on the history and theory of photography, techniques, various photographic processes and genres, photobooks, etc.