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Swiss Foundation for Photography

Museum in Winterthur (Switzerland)
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Summary

Swiss Foundation for Photography is an archives[1]. It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: Memoriav[3]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Mattenbach[4], Winterthur[5], Canton of Zürich[6]
  • Country: Switzerland[7]
  • Instance of: library[8], art museum[9], memory institution[10]
  • Headquarters location: Winterthur[11]
  • Postal code: 8400[12]
  • Part of: list of cultural properties in Winterthur/district 7[13]
  • Commons category: Fotostiftung Schweiz[14]
  • Chairperson: Andreas Spillmann[15]
  • Inception: 1971[16]
  • Coordinate location: 47.4958, 8.7383[17]
  • Official website: https://www.fotostiftung.ch[18]
  • Email address: mailto:info@fotostiftung.ch[19]
  • Described at URL: https://vsa-aas.ch/archive/fotostiftung-schweiz/[20]
  • Described by source: Memobase[21]
  • Heritage designation: class A Swiss cultural property of national significance[22]
  • Official name: Schweizerische Stiftung für die Photographie[23], Fondation suisse pour la photographie[24], Fondazione svizzera per la fotografia[25], Fundaziun Svizra per la Fotografia[26], Swiss Foundation for Photography[27]
  • Legal form: foundation[28]
  • Short name: fss[29]
  • Street address: Grüzenstrasse 45, 8400 Winterthur[30]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [7] ↑ . Swiss GLAM Inventory, 16 September 2016. wikidata.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [10] ↑ . Swiss GLAM Inventory, 16 September 2016. wikidata.org.
  5. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [5] ↑ . Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National Significance, February 2017. vsa-aas.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [6] ↑ . Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National Significance, February 2017. wikidata.org.
  8. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] ↑ . Swiss GLAM Inventory, 16 September 2016. vsa-aas.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [3] ↑ . memoriav.ch. Retrieved . memoriav.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . ch-cultura.ch. ch-cultura.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . vsa-aas.ch. vsa-aas.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . fotostiftung.ch. Retrieved . fotostiftung.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . memobase.ch. Retrieved . memobase.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Swiss GLAM Inventory, 16 September 2016. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . memoriav.ch. Retrieved . memoriav.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . fotostiftung.ch. Retrieved . fotostiftung.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +1971-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Headquarters location → Winterthur
    Postal code → 8400
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