Accreditation Unaccredited
Address_line_1 The Octagon
Address_line_2 Milsom Street
Admin_hierarchy /England/South West (English Region)/West of England (English CA)/Bath and North East Somerset (English District or Borough)
DOMUS_Subject_Matter photography
Deprivation_index 3
Deprivation_index_crime 3
Deprivation_index_education 7
Deprivation_index_employment 4
Deprivation_index_health 2
Deprivation_index_housing 1
Deprivation_index_income 4
Deprivation_index_services 6
Geodemographic_group Larger Towns and Cities
Geodemographic_group_code 2ar
Geodemographic_group_name_long 2ar-Larger Towns and Cities
Geodemographic_subgroup Larger Towns and Cities
Geodemographic_subgroup_code 2a1r
Geodemographic_subgroup_name_long 2a1r-Larger Towns and Cities
Geodemographic_supergroup Business Education and Heritage Centres
Geodemographic_supergroup_code 2r
Geodemographic_supergroup_name_long 2r-Business Education and Heritage Centres
Governance Independent-Not_for_profit
Identifier_used_in_source_database SW000192
Latitude 51.38399
Longitude -2.361218
Name_of_museum Royal Photographic Society
Notes The RPS had a museum from c1890s available to members and the public, at its various premises in London. In 1980 it opened the National Centre of Photography at its premises in Milsom Street, Bath, which were closed c.2001. The Collection was sold and transferred to the National Museum of Photography Film and Television in Bradford in 2003. The move to the V&A Museum was announced in 2016 and physically moved in 2017. (Email from Michael Pritchard). Closure in 2001 seems reasonable based on this article which states that the packing up of the collection was already in progress at the end of that year: https://archive.rps.org/archive/volume-142/752953-volume-142-page-5?q=museum%20closed%20bath
Notes_internal DOMUS foundation year = 1963. Charity No. 1107831. Opened to public in 1980. Collection sold to National Media Museum in 2002. Assume closure date.
Postcode BA1 1DN
Primary_provenance_of_data domus
Region_country South West
Size medium
Size_prov domus
Subject_Matter Arts-Photography
Town_or_City Bath
Visitor_Numbers_Data 0:20000:1995:domus
Year_closed 2001:2001
Year_closed_source https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/royal-photographic-society-collection
Year_opened 1890:1899
Year_opened_source email from Michael Pritchard
media 0
project_id mm.domus.SW192