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Fox Talbot Museum

Lacock

A museum of early photography at the abbey gates, in the place where William Henry Fox Talbot made his first negatives.

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MuseumTime here: 30–45 min

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High Street, Lacock, SN15 2LF

Quick facts

The museum celebrates Fox Talbot's breakthroughs in photography.

It hosts a changing programme of photography exhibitions.

In 1835 Fox Talbot made the earliest surviving photographic negative, of a small window in the abbey's South Gallery.

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