MoneyMuseum (Zurich)

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The Zurich Money Museum, 2016

The Zurich-based MoneyMuseum is a private museum that focuses critically on monetary history and the future of money. It is funded by the nonprofit Sunflower Foundation.[1]

History[]

Financial analyst Jürg Conzett founded the MoneyMuseum in 1999. He assigned his private collection to the Sunflower Foundation, which he created as the umbrella organization of the MoneyMuseum. It was the world’s first numismatic museum.[2]

In October 2000, the MoneyMuseum opened a branch in the Swiss National Museum. In 2002, it opened a permanent exhibit in the Museum Bärengasse.[3] That was also the venue of the highly regarded exhibition ‘The People of Zurich and their Money’ which highlighted the ways people make use of money.[4] In February 2003, the MoneyMuseum opened a 500 square meter facility at Hadlaubstrasse 106. Since then, the permanent exhibition is regularly supplemented by special presentations and events.[5]

The MoneyMuseum aims to "the visitor aware of the historical, economic and social background of the individual objects, thus making him reflect about his own use of money."[6]

Major Exhibits[]

In November 2014 MoneyMuseum opened an interactive Bitcoin exhibit. It featured Bitcoin education, mining devices and Bitcoin Automated teller machines. [7] The exhibit explained the revolutionary nature of bitcoin, drawing inspiration from American Libertarianism, and how its network could "anchor a new global currency system".[8]

Online[]

The MoneyMuseum offers free material on the internet.[9] Materials include are works on the history of money as well as ‘Money:critical’ where economic theorists deal with current aspects of money.[10] As of 2016, the MoneyMuseum placed a new focus on ‘Crisis’.[11]

References[]

  1. ^ "Money Museum – The Power of Money". Zurich, Switzerland. Money Museum. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  2. ^ Lemma ‘Jürg Conzett’ in ‘Numismatic Who’s who’ and Kampmann 2008, p. 39.
  3. ^ Kampmann 2008, p. 42.
  4. ^ Kampmann 2006, pp. 43–49 and 'Wer interessiert sich schon für Geld?'. Neue Zürcher Zeitung from 4 May 2006. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  5. ^ Kampmann 2008, pp. 42–43.
  6. ^ Kampmann & 2008,, p. 43.
  7. ^ "Bitcoin Exhibit Launches at Money Museum In Zürich Switzerland". www.ccn.com. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  8. ^ "Introduction into the Bitcoin Exhibition at the MoneyMuseum Zurich". www.moneymuseum.com. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  9. ^ Money Museum website. Printed publications, and audiobooks and other audio products are available there.
  10. ^ "'Money:critical'". Archived from the original on 2017-03-31. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  11. ^ New contributions to the topic of crisis

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