Fotomuseum Winterthur — Attraction in Winterthur

First time visit. The museum is easy to find, since it's located a couple feet away from the bus number 2's stop, only five minutes away from the central train station. The neighbourhood is quiet, ensuring a pleasant contemplative atmosphere once inside, although I can only vouch for the secondary exhibition floor currently hosting "Sophie Calle - Un certain regard". The staff is forthcoming and fluent in at least three languages - German, Italian, and English, possibly French, too. The main floor also houses a small bar equipped with an optimally situated, cozy summer terrace; the ideal spot to reminisce at or simply to relax one's weary legs...

Sometimes you like it and sometimes...: if you like a photographic challenge you should visit this museum (actually it's two of them). The exhibitions are diverse and rarely love at first sight or at second... Thus it's more a gallery, you like it or not, you find it interesting or not. It provokes thoughts rather than giving you inspiration to go out and take pictures. I stopped coming back though. The rooms are excellent, there is space without distraction. The personnel is very friendly and helpful. The bistro is quite good and a pleasant finish...

Came here today from Bern with great expectations and was rather disappointed. Feels more like an art gallery than a museum of photography. There are three small exhibitions, one of them an incoherent experiment about the future of photography without any relevant content. I liked the other two exhibitions ("Capa, Bosshard", photojournalism and "25 years", a review of the museum's past exhibitions), but really missed a permanent exhibition and some deeper information, both about the exhibited artists as well as...