In 2004, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art has put together a nucleus of the Photographs Collection as part of the Sculpture and Multimedia Collection. The proposed scheme of purchasing artworks envisaged an invigorated collecting of artworks to prepare the permanent holdings in the new museum's building. Since then, more than 350 photographs have been purchased and received in donations, which allowed establishing an independent Collection of photographs with a purpose to preserve, process and present national and international materials.