It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. If that is true, then today’s site should be worth several thousand.

At The American Museum of Photography, you can trace the history of the recorded image in all its various forms. You can trace it from the origins through a series of online forums and exhibits, as well as finding out what is available from the museum if you were to visit there.

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We bill ourselves as “A Museum Without Walls… For An Art Without Boundaries.” Even though we have no walls, we do have “floors,” separate areas for different activities. At the bottom of most pages, you’ll find a navigation bar that will let you choose our Exhibitions floor, our Main Entrance floor, our Research Center or our Museum Shops. Just click on the place you want to visit. Or click on the Museum’s logo and you’ll find yourself transported to our Home Page.
You’re now at the Museum’s Main Entrance floor. In addition to picking up the tour here, you can catch up on all the Museum News - get updates on new and future exhibits, and read comments from your fellow museumgoers. Or visit our staff offices. Our Webmaster offers technical tips for getting the most out of this site, and he’ll gladly take a bug report. A few doors away, you’ll find the Director’s Office, where you can learn more about the Museum and our affiliated Collection. Researchers, editors, publishers and documentary producers should stop by the Registrar’s Office, where the business of searching the collection and providing our images for TV, film and print takes place; we recently added a link to an online image archive featuring hundreds of great photographs. The Registrar also keeps our Collectors Registry in case we locate a photograph (or part with something) that another collection desperately wants. Also on our Main Entrance floor, you’ll find our Performing Arts division - where you’ll get the latest on Brady of Broadway, Wm. B. Becker’s acclaimed stage play about the photographer Mathew Brady.