Spéos Photography School, which finances the Niépce House, is committed to the protection of photographic heritage as well as to contemporary creation with a brand new project that will be launched in 2023 in Paris: Quai de la Photo. An art centre dedicated to photography on the Seine Located in the 13th arrondissement of Paris,…
The Niépce House will participate in the European Heritage Days which will be held on September 17th and 18th, 2022. You will be able to visit the place where the very first photo in the world was taken by the inventor of photography: Nicéphore Niépce. About the Niépce House Niépce’s house in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes is the…
The Maison Nicéphore Niépce Museum reopened its doors to the public on July 1st 2022, after a summer 2021 marked by the closing of the premises due to the Covid. Take advantage of the summer to visit this incredible French heritage and walk in the footsteps of Nicéphore Niépce, the inventor of photography! You will…
The European Heritage Days were held on the 18th and 19th of September, 2021. Thanks again to all the visitors who came to follow the guided conferences with the co-founders of the project: Photos credits: Pierre-Yves Mahé
February 12, 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the photographer Janine Niépce, born February 12, 1921 in Meudon. A distant relative of the inventor of photography, Nicéphore Niépce, she was one of the first female photojournalists in France. Janine Niépce was born into a family of Burgundian winegrowers who converted to the…
2019 Patrimony Days (or European Heritage Days) were held on the 21st and 22nd of September.
2018 Patrimony Days (or European Heritage Days) were held on the 15th and 16th of September.
Pyréolophore: it’s the name of the first internal combustion engine in the world, invented by Nicéphore Niépce and his brother Claude. It will officially enter into Le Musée des Arts et Métiers on Thursday, September 27, 2018, at 7pm. The Niépce House and Spéos Photography school rectify the history of science, after many years of…
Every year, the “Haut Comité des commémorations nationales” presents to the Ministry of Culture and Communication a selection of about a hundred personalities, whose birthdays are celebrated in the name of the nation. This selection is presented in a publication that has become well-known among both amateurs and professionals within the domain of French history….
In July 2013, the Nicéphore Niépce House Museum — founded and exclusively financed by the Speos International Photography School since 1999 — was nominated “Maisons des illustres” by the French Ministry of Culture in the presence of high-ranked French government representatives. Thus, the place where the world’s first photo was taken has finally received national…
2 rue Nicéphore Niépce,
71240 Saint-Loup-de-Varennes
France
Phone: +33 (0)1 40 09 18 58
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The Nicéphore Niépce House is open each year from July 2nd to August 31st only, every day from 10am to 6pm (closed on Tuesdays).