Inaugurated on 28 August 2019, the museum is a joint public-private venture between Gurugram Municipal Corporation and India Photo Archive Foundation.

[4] The museum collection has over 3000 objects which include cameras, lenses, lighting equipment, photographic ephemera, etc.

[7] The other miscellaneous range of exhibits on display includes notable advertisements from the world of photography, materials related to camera companies, film roll makers, historic records of patents, etc.

Some of the important events it has conducted include a talk by Harsheen Jammu on The Essence of Colors, a performance by the music band Chaar Yaar on account of India's platinum jubilee celebrations of Independence Day, Mahmood Farooqui's Dastangoi, etc.

Emmanuel Lenin's An Exhibition of Cyanotype Prints, Aparna Banerjee's Framing Flowers are significant examples.