Museum of American Finance

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Registration is now open for the Fall 2026 semester of the Museum Finance Academy (MFA). Enrollment is free and open to all high school juniors and seniors. Space is limited and filled on a first-come, first-served basis. No prior knowledge of finance, business or economics is required. Classes are held virtually over Zoom, making the program accessible to students anywhere in the country.

Chuck Jaffe talks with David Cowen, president and chief executive officer of the Museum of American Finance—the nation’s only independent museum dedicated to preserving, exhibiting and teaching American finance and financial history—which opened in Boston at the start of July, and which Chuck toured recently.

Virtual ▪  Series Registration is now open for the Fall 2026 semester of the Museum Finance Academy (MFA). Enrollment is free and open to all high school juniors and seniors. Space is limited and filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Tuesday, October 20, 2026 ▪ 5:45 PM to Tuesday, November 17, 2026 7:00 PM The Museum Finance Academy (MFA) is a free, five-class personal finance certificate program.

Virtual ▪  Series Registration is now open for the Fall 2026 semester of the Museum Finance Academy (MFA). Enrollment is free and open to all high school juniors and seniors. Space is limited and filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Monday, October 19, 2026 ▪ 4:15 PM to Monday, November 16, 2026 5:30 PM The Museum Finance Academy (MFA) is a free, five-class personal finance certificate program.

After years in New York, the nation’s only independent museum dedicated to finance has shipped up to Boston—another city, of course, with its own deep ties to American commerce and banking. The Museum of American Finance has brought with it a big collection of educational programs and artifacts, and this is not just for people who are in the know about finance and crypto and stocks and banking. The Museum says they’ve got something for everybody.

The Museum of American Finance (MoAF) opened its new exhibit headquarters this month in Boston’s Seaport, bringing its collection of financial history to a new permanent home. The free museum is intended to make finance more accessible, showing how markets and financial institutions shape everyday life. Traders Magazine caught up with Kristin Aguilera, Deputy Director of the Museum of American Finance, to learn more.

“Imagine you have one diamond pickaxe, and each day it magically duplicates not just the original, but all duplicates from the day before,” the display said. The 5,400-square-foot Seaport museum opened its doors Friday and will be now be open Wednesday through Sunday. The opening marked the first time since early 2018 that the Museum of American Finance, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, has occupied a permanent home. Eight years ago, its New York headquarters was flooded.

Nearly a decade after leaving its former home, the Museum of American Finance is welcoming the public to its new headquarters – and just in time for the country’s 250th anniversary. The 5,400-square-foot museum located on Commonwealth Pier in Boston is the Smithsonian Institution affiliate’s first permanent home since it terminated its lease at 48 Wall Street in New York in 2018 because of a flood. After signing a new lease only 16 months ago, the museum was able to debut seven inaugural exhibits.

The “Alexander Hamilton Experience” features an AI-generated Hamilton and artifacts from the founding of the US financial system. They say money talks. If true, then the Museum of American Finance, opening July 3 at Boston’s Commonwealth Pier, is giving money a microphone. The museum, which is free for visitors, aims to make the story of America’s financial systems both captivating and accessible, helping visitors to contextualize their own financial goals within the nation’s economic history.