Financial History Issue 130 (Summer 2019) | Page 6
THE TICKER MUSEUM NEWS
Collaborations and Partnerships Bring MoAF
Library and Collection Outside New York
This summer, our Board and staff have
focused on innovative ways to bring our
programming and collections to the public
while we continue to look for a more per-
manent home. One exciting development
is that our library collection will soon be on
global headquarters in Chicago, as they
have repurposed one of their floors into
an area that includes historical displays.
The display—presented in collaboration
with the Museum of Science and Indus-
try, Chicago—highlights the city of Chi-
cago’s financial history along
with objects representing
the evolution of financial
technology.
David J. Cowen | President and CEO
We will also be install-
ing at Paypal’s New York
City and San Jose headquar-
loan to the American Institute of Economic
ters the electronic version of our exhibit,
Research (AIER), which has a state-of-the-
“America in Circulation: A History of
art climate controlled library at their 100-
US Currency Featuring the Collection of
acre facility in Great Barrington, MA. We
Mark Shenkman,” which was on display at
will be moving our roughly 10,000 volume
the Museum from 2015–2018. This exhibit
library there this summer, where AIER will
is also available online at money.moaf.org.
fully catalogue it and make it accessible
The summer session of our MFA Boot
to scholars. The library will be on loan to
Camp, a new edition to our educational
AIER for an initial period of five years,
programming in 2019, ran from August
beginning this month.
5–8 at 25 Broadway in New York. We will
Also this summer, we loaned several
also offer two sessions of the Museum
objects for display at Citadel Securities’
Finance Academy (MFA) in the fall, on
Message to Members
Wednesdays and Thursdays after school
from September 25 through November 14.
This year, we will award two MFA schol-
arships to the top achievers, with the first
place recipient earning $5k and the second
place recipient earning $2.5k.
Our fall events line-up is also taking
shape, and as you can see on page five,
we have scheduled four Evening Lecture
Series events: a panel event on “Corpo-
rate Sustainability” (Sept 19), James Grant
(Sept 25—see article, page 32), Joe Ricketts
(Nov 6) and a film screening of “In Money
We Trust?,” followed by a fireside chat
with Steve Forbes (Nov 11). Our Lunch &
Learn Series will feature programs with
author Shennette Garrett-Scott (Oct 23—
see article, page 20) and former New York
Times reporter Ralph Blumenthal (Oct
29). As always, MoAF members receive
free admission to Museum events, plus
one free walking tour per year. We hope
to see you there.
At Citadel Securities’ global headquarters in Chicago, the Museum of American Finance is currently exhibiting artifacts
from its collection in collaboration with the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago. The display highlights the city
of Chicago’s financial history along with objects representing the evolution of financial technology.
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