About the Museum

The Netherlands Photo Museum (Dutch: Nederlands Fotomuseum) (NFM) is a photography museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, that was founded in 2003. It is currently closed as the museum moves to a new location in Rotterdam. The museum collection consists of many historical, social and cultural images from the 20th and 21st centuries, from the Netherlands and elsewhere. It manager more than 150 archives taken by Dutch photographers. The archives are stored in climate controlled film storage facilities. The previous location of the museum was the Wilhelminakade in a workshop building once owned by the Holland America Line, also known as the Las Palmas building. In 2021 the Fotomuseum began looking for a new location, motivated by the rising costs in maintaining the Las Palmas building. Two years later, and following a donation of 38 million Euros from the Droom en Daad foundation, the Fotomuseum was able to buy the nearby Santos warehouse. Significant work to refurbish the building was quickly undertaken. Nevertheless, the original re-opening date of September 2025 has since been postponed to February 2026.