The Fox Talbot Museum commemorates the life and work of William Henry Fox Talbot, mathematician, physicist, classicist, philologist, and transcriber of Syrian and Chaldean cuneiform texts. In 1840 he invented the positive/negative process, and he is known as The Father of Modern Photography. The Museum is located inside a 15th-century medieval barn at the entrance to Lacock Abbey. The permanent exhibition on the ground floor commemorates the achievements of this photographic pioneer. The Upper Gallery area shows at least three exhibitions per year, which offer a broad range of work by some of the most interesting contemporary and 19th-century photographers. Open daily, March-October (closed Good Friday); open Sat-Sun, November-December (up to and including last weekend before Christmas). Tel: +44 (0)1249 730 459, Fax: +44 (0)1249 730 501
