Financial History Issue 114 (Summer 2015) | Page 7
MUSEUM NEWS
THE TICKER
Exhibit Preview: “Worth Its Weight:
Gold from the Ground Up”
JUL 31
1914
With war raging in Europe, the NYSE closes for
four and a half months to allow the chaotic
market to settle.
Collection of the National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution
stunning objects on loan from the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of
Natural History and the Tiffany & Co.
Collection.
The “Midas Touch” room will feature
the creations of renowned jeweler Sidney Mobell, a modern day Midas who
transforms everyday items into dazzling
gold and jeweled artworks, challenging the
relationship between the mundane and
the luxurious.
“Worth Its Weight” is sponsored by Steve
Wozniak and Sidney Mobell, with additional support from Van Eck Gold Funds
and IPMI. It will be on view from November 19, 2015 through December 2016.
Copyright Tiffany & Co. Archives 2015
Since the earliest civilizations, people around the world have been fascinated
by the sparkling metal they found flowing
in mountain streams and mined from
deep in the earth. We risk our lives to get
it, we wear it on our bodies, we use it as
money and we even bring it with us into
outer space. The Museum’s upcoming
exhibit, “Worth Its Weight: Gold from the
Ground Up,” will captivate visitors with
the many spectacular and unexpected
ways gold has influenced our lives.
“Worth Its Weight” will be on view in
three galleries, as well as the Museum’s
theater. The “Gold i