Welcome to our home page, dedicated primarily to photographs by the Šechtl family whose tradition exceeds 150 years. You can find here information about Šechtl & Voseček Museum of Photography, on-line presentation of past exhibitions from our archive as well as other digitized collections of historical photography, virtual galleries of photographs and regularly updated digital archive.
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In our project of digitization archive we strive to make profesional quality digital copies of all preserved photographs and make them available in preview quality in our digital archive. Information about individual photos in the archive is often incomplete or unreadable. We welcome any help with identifying details! We can also make quality digital prints from the photographs and make them available for furhter publication upon request.
You are cordially invited to our exhibition at Písek Malhouse:
Opening day: 17 April 2012 at 5pm.
Open Tuesday-Sunday 9am–6pm.
The exhibition was extended till end of January 2012.
Unique collection of photographs taken by the three generations of photographers in Šechtl Family. Exhibition will introduce 135 years long history of one of the oldest contually working photostudios. History of family that was documenting South Bohemia. Since 1877 is Šechtl and Voseček permanently connected with town of Tábor.
Section, where we show the most interesting information we have received from you, about photographs in the archive.
Current | Archive
Current | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008-2 | 2008-1 | 2007-2 | 2007-1 | 2006-2 | 2006-1 | 2005–2004
We finished scanning color photos from helicopter from 1960s and at the same time we celebrate 7000 photographs digitized by our Nikon Coolscan scanner
Openning of new exhibition “Šechtl and Voseček: South Bohemia” was openned at Písek Malthouse. We was very pleased by the interest in the exhibition. The opening had 103 attendees.
607 new photographs digitized from negatives stored in Pelhřimov archive.
At Hussite Museum in Tábor we openned new exhibition “When the World Turned to Color: Early Color Photography from the Mark Jacobs Collection”. The exhibition is result of several years of cooperation with Mark Jacobs, the collector of early color photographs from Wisconsin, USA. The exhibitoin was prepared jointly with the Hussite Museum in Tábor. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Embassy of the United States and the South Bohemia Region.
Two talks by Mark Jacobs was held. First at the Hussite Museum in Tábor and Second at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
121 new photographs including new scans from our new Eversmart Select scanner.
tinism, Photographs for book South Bohemia, Floods at Lužnice, Lipno
