The Danish Museet for Fotokunst is part of the international Brandts Klædefabrik cultural centre in Odense, named for the former user of the building where it is located. The museum, founded in 1987, initially concentrated on contemporary Danish photography. Its field has since expanded, and attention is also bestowed on international photography, particularly that coming from Scandinavia, North and South America and Eastern Europe.

The Museum publishes the periodical Katalog, which in addition to portfolios, reviews and essays, also offers background information on the changing exhibitions.

The collection of the Museet for Fotokunst presently comprises 7000 photographs in which the human body is central. A small part of the collection comes from the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the rest being more modern. The Museum regularly assembles exhibitions from this collection, such as Body is Required. In a many-sided, dazzling and imagination stirring manner this exhibition documents the relation between people and their bodies, containing work by 80 photographers, including Eadweard Muybridge, Josef Breitenbach, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Imogen Cunningham and William Klein. The exhibition was curated by Finn Thrane, director of the Museet for Fotokunst.

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