Tracing the history of photography, the museum offers special exhibits from crowd-pleasing animal themes to landscapes by Ansel Adams and avant-garde cell-phone photography. The museum shop is rather good too, with photography-themed gifts, Lomography camera sets, technical reads and books on still- and moving-picture greats like Gus Van Sant.
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Museum of Photographic Arts
San Diego