Financial History Issue 133 (Spring 2020) | Page 6

THE TICKER  MUSEUM NEWS Museum Programs Move Online During covid -19 Shutdown Much has changed in New York City and throughout the world since my last column in our Winter edition. As our city essentially shut down in early March, our Museum—like so many other institutions —has needed to adapt its programming to continue to serve our audiences in new and innovative ways. In response to the covid‑19 crisis, MoAF Chairman Dick Sylla, along with Finan- cial History editorial board members Bob Wright and Janice Traflet, wrote the cover story of this issue exploring the financial and economic impacts that previous pan- demics have had on the United States. Our exhibit team adapted this article, “Pan- demics & Epidemics: Finan- cial and Economic Effects,” into an online mini-exhibit that can soon be found at David J. Cowen  |  President and CEO www.moaf.org/pandemics. We are working closely with our partners at the On March 5, just before the city-wide Fordham University Gabelli Center for shutdown, we opened “Ebb & Flow: Tap- Global Security Analysis to reschedule our ping into the History of New York City’s Spring programs as online/virtual events. Water,” an exhibit produced in partner- Our first virtual partnership event was a ship with the NYC Municipal Archives full-day conference on Social Innovation that explores the history of bringing clean held on April 21. We expect to hold weekly water to New York City while highlighting webinars with Fordham from late May the story of the Manhattan Company (pre- through August. Stay tuned to our web- decessor of today’s JPMorgan Chase). The site and social media for event updates as exhibit opening included a live recording additional programs are confirmed. of Person Place Thing with Emmy Award As of April, the American Institute for winner Randy Cohen, featuring an inter- Economic Research (AIER) has almost view with the commissioner of the NYC fully catalogued our library collection, Department of Environmental Protection, which is on loan to them. It can now be Vincent Sapienza. It is now available as searched online at www.aier.org/archives. a podcast at www.PersonPlaceThing.org. The call numbers for books in our collec- While that exhibit is currently not open tion begin with “MoAF.” to the public, the section about Aaron On May 8, we launched a new video Burr and the Manhattan Company, titled series exploring our collections and exhib- “Dirty Water,” is featured on page 15 of its, which is available on our YouTube this issue of our magazine. channel (www.youtube.com/Finance Message to Members 4    FINANCIAL HISTORY  |  Spring 2020  | www.MoAF.org Museum) and across our social media platforms (@FinanceMuseum). I am cur- rently narrating these short video pro- grams from home, and the first several videos take a closer look at objects in our “Out of the Vault” traveling exhibit. And, finally, on May 4, registration opened for our first virtual Museum Finance Academy (MFA) for high school juniors and seniors. Weekly classes begin on May 14 and are offered via Zoom. See page 5 for more details. During this difficult time, we are con- tinuing to adjust and adapt to serve our members, students and constituents with quality programming. Stay safe and well, and we look forward to seeing you online until we can once again see you in per- son.