DAWSON CITY COMMUNITY CAMERA OBSCURA

What is a Camera Obscura?
Camera = Latin for "room"
Obscura = Latin for "dark"

BE SURE TO VISIT DAWSON'S NEWEST ATTRACTION
– The Camera Obscura Room–

and experience the workings of this simplistic, yet amazing, form of camera. Walk inside the "dark room", let your eyes adjust to the darkness, and watch as a moving image of the outside world reveals itself on the inside walls of the camera obscura.

LOCATED ON FRONT STREET NEXT TO THE GAZEBO