Patrimony Days 2018 in St Loup
2018 Patrimony Days (or European Heritage Days) were held on the 15th and 16th of September.
The Pyréolophore invented by the Niépce brothers appears into Le Musée des Arts et Métiers!
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…
National Commemorations 2015: 250th Anniversary of Nicéphore Niépce’s Birth
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….
Inauguration of the Plaque “Maisons des Illustres”
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…
At the “Voies Off Festival” in Arles
Speos/Maison Nicéphore Niépce will be present at the Voies Off Festival for the 15th consecutive year. Since 1996, the Voies Off Festival has been supporting a vast range of contemporary creative practices by offering their authors a scene of international renown during the Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles. In parallel to the official program, the Voies Off…
2011 Presentation of “Niepce, correspondances et papiers” online
The revised online edition of Niépce, correspondance et papiers is a compilation of over 700 documents from more than 50 archives spread all over the world.Footnotes give thousands of references; its index of names amounts to more than three thousand; equipped with a multi-criteria search engine. Historical bits and pieces are revealed, family secrets unveiled…
Discover Burgundy via the “Route de la photo”
Initiated by the museum Maison Nicéphore Niépce, with the collaboration of Jean-Louis Bruley, Manuel Bonnet and the mairie de Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, the “Route de la Photo” — a series of photo spots — invites you to discover Burgundy following the footsteps of Nicéphore Niépce, the inventor of photography. To take a picture of the place linked…
Maurice Bonneviot at the Niépce House
In the attic of the photo museum Maison Nicéphore Niépce, Maurice Bonneviot — a notary — tells the story of the invention of photography via Niépce’s notarized letters and documents.
2010, David Niépce’s Objects
A bit of family history… Among the Niépce family, Nicéphore is well-known, as is Abel Niépce of Saint Victor, who was born at Saint-Cyr and became the military governor at the Palais du Louvre. He first followed Nicéphore’s photographic work and then invented the first process on glass (Albumine).Last but not least, there is David…
End of Anoxia for the Last Objects of the World’s Oldest Photo Lab
In summer 2010, the last objects of the world’s oldest photo lab are finally on view in the Niépce House after several months of anoxia — a process that consists in destroying worms and parasites contained in the wood by means of a vacuum, without interfering with future chemical analyses.
