Life in a Lens Museum of Photography & Old Times

The Life in a Lens Museum of Photography and Old Times is a museum in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, England. Opened in 2001, the museum is dedicated to presenting the history of photography from 1839 to around the beginning of the digital age (2001).

The museum is housed in five themed rooms in a renovated Victorian building, dating from 1861, on North Parade. There are over five hundred cameras on display and many more items, including mannequins dressed in period clothes, many authentic Victorian or Edwardian.

Coordinates: 53°07′16″N 1°33′46″W / 53.1212°N 1.5627°W / 53.1212; -1.5627

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