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Museums · Saône-et-LoireWorth a visit
Musée Nicéphore-Niépce
The Nicéphore-Niépce Museum in Chalon-sur-Saône is a museum of the history of photography founded in 1972, labelled Musée de France and dedicated to the inventor of photography, Nicéphore Niépce (1765–1833), in Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire.
It was founded around a historic collection of cameras and objects that belonged to the inventor of photography.
The museum was directed by Paul Jay from its creation until the arrival in 1996 of the second chief curator, François Cheval.
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