Usually camera obscuras are situated at the top of towers or other buildings. I've visited them in Edinburgh, Eger (Hungary), and Bristol - and with the help of this directory hope to visit others - there's one at Greenwich, not far away.
This one was built in 1990 for the Gateshead Garden Festival and has since found a permanent home -
Chris Drury's "Cloud Chambers" are camera obscuras, for instance "Cloud Chamber for the Trees and Sky" in North Carolina -
This is what it looks like inside - trees and sky -
In this video of "Cloud Pool" being installed in Nevada, he says "It's an object, and it's an experience".There's another at the Eden Project in Cornwall.
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Coincidentally, we went to The Vyne, near Basingstoke today, which has a small camera obscura - so small and obscure I bet many visitors miss it.
At the moment there is also an exhibition of furniture by Mark Brazier-Jones, which is neither small nor obscure!
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