Museum of American Finance

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.

• Currency that incorporated Benjamin Franklin's ideas for fighting counterfeiting — like imprinting the image of a unique leaf on the face of a bill. • A British tax stamp from 1765, showing that you'd paid Parliament's tax on your purchase of parchment, playing cards or a newspaper. This was one of the taxes that eventually led to the American Revolution.

Centuries-old currency, no longer in circulation. Paul Revere’s bank book. One of the earliest counterfeit checks. The first lottery in North America, started in Massachusetts. Stock certificates from the Boston Celtics and the Boston Red Sox. These are among the hundreds of historical artifacts featured in the new Museum of American Finance, a Smithsonian affiliate opening in Boston’s Seaport.

Visitors at Boston’s new Museum of American Finance will soon be in the room where an AI-generated Alexander Hamilton happens. The 5,400 square foot Smithsonian-affiliated museum, which has signed a 10-year lease for exhibit space at Commonwealth Pier in Boston’s Seaport, opens July 3 — just in time for the nation’s 250th anniversary. Admission is free. The Hamilton exhibit is one of seven inaugural exhibits opening in the museum’s six galleries. The MoAF announced it would open in Boston last year.

Boston, MA – The Museum of American Finance, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, will open its new exhibit headquarters on Commonwealth Pier in the Boston Seaport on Friday, July 3. Admission to the 5,400 sq ft Museum will be free of charge, reflecting its core mission of making financial education accessible to all.

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