FOMU - Photo Museum Antwerp
Photography museum in a converted quayside warehouse, with major exhibitions, a cinema and archives.
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This guide to FOMU, the photo museum on Antwerp's Waalsekaai, follows Lieven Gevaert, a working-class Antwerp boy who opened a photography studio with his widowed mother in eighteen eighty-nine and grew irritated by the cost of imported paper. It reaches from a homemade machine to a factory in Mortsel and the industrial giant Agfa-Gevaert. You'll also hear how a company's loans became the first collection of the museum standing in front of you.
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