Asia Camera Museum

Dive into a world of antique cameras. Asia Camera Museum displays a collection of more than 1000 pieces, specially curated, not only for connoisseurs of photography but also for anyone who has ever clicked pictures. Experience the rare Magic Lantern Projector, or the legendary Leica and Zeiss series. Then there are the popular brands of Nikon, Cannon and Sony. Curious? Ask questions and listen to museum curator’s comments about each of them. Touch and feel them, or simply admire and click them. What’s more? The museum offers local costumes that you could don for a few minutes and pose for pictures in their studio. The museum also offers infotainment for eager students. Figure out how photography has evolved since its early days of using a simple optical projection on a tracing paper. Remember flash lights? Get amazed at the size of some of these camera-flash instruments. See how the medium of photography has transformed over the years from paper to glass, to plastic, and now to the electronic. See what a camera workshop looks like and see a camera dismantled into its thousands of parts. Compare the old versus the new. Then there’s a dark room for you to understand how films were processed into negatives and developed into pictures.
Tips: Located on the quaint Armenian Street of George Town, it is walking distance from Sun Yat-sen Museum and you can plan to visit both consecutively.