The Nicéphore-Niépce museum in Chalon-sur-Saône is a museum of the history of photography from 1972 , labeled Musée de France and dedicated to the inventor of photography Nicéphore Niépce ( 1765 – 1833 ), in Chalon-sur- Saône in Saône-et-Loire ( Bourgogne-Franche-Comté ).

Characteristics 

• Support for French and international creation, reception in residences, constitution of a body of works capable of giving a complete vision of an artist’s career, production of prints under the direction of photographers, opening up its collections to a reflection on the world, and in the photographic medium, through the expert eye of artists.
• Nearly three million images (all photographic processes), images of the xix ^th and xx ^th  centuries, more than a million of negative Combier funds.
• Over 1,500 cameras including the world’s top five cameras
• 8,000 books on photography
• temporary exhibitions of old and contemporary photographers.