MoneyMuseum

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MoneyMuseum
Money museum Hadlaubstrasse Zurich.jpg
Access to the MoneyMuseum
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place Zurich , Switzerland
opening February 2003
operator
Sunflower Foundation
Website

The MoneyMuseum is a private museum in Zurich that deals critically with the history of money and the future of money. The sponsor is the non-profit Sunflower Foundation.

history

The MoneyMuseum was founded in 1999 by the financial analyst Jürg Conzett. He transferred his private collection to the Sunflower Foundation, which was newly established for this purpose. With the website www.moneymuseum.com it went online in the same year as the first numismatic museum worldwide. In October 2000, the MoneyMuseum founded a branch in the Swiss National Museum . In 2002 it opened a permanent exhibition in the museum on Bärengasse . The exhibition “The people of Zurich and their money” also took place there, in which the focus was not on coins, but on the way in which people use money. In February 2003, the MoneyMuseum moved into its own premises on 500 square meters at Hadlaubstrasse 106. Since then, special exhibitions and events have been taking place there alongside a permanent exhibition.

Priority work

The MoneyMuseum sees itself as a communication platform, the aim of which is to "make the historical, economic and social background of the individual objects clear to the visitor and thus make him think about his own way of dealing with money".

MoneyMuseum on the Internet

The MoneyMuseum offers materials free of charge on the Internet. The offer ranges from historical monetary history to reflections on modern economic systems and the philosophy of money. A new focus of the MoneyMuseum since 2016 has been the topic of "crisis".

literature

  • Ursula Kampmann: Panta rhei or a short history of the MoneyMuseum. In: Vernissage exhibitions No. 4/08, 2008, pp. 39–45.
  • Ursula Kampmann: The people of Zurich and their money. 2000 years of Zurich monetary history. In: Vernissage No. 10/06, pp. 43–49.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry "Jürg Conzett" in "Who's Who of Numismatics" and Ursula Kampmann: Panta rhei or a short history of the MoneyMuseum. In: Vernissage exhibitions No. 4/08, 2008, p. 39.
  2. ↑ Ursula Kampmann: Panta rhei or a short history of the MoneyMuseum. In: Vernissage exhibitions No. 4/08, 2008, p. 42.
  3. ↑ Ursula Kampmann: The people of Zurich and their money. 2000 years of Zurich monetary history. In: Vernissage No. 10/06, pp. 43–49 and “Who is interested in money?” . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 4, 2006, accessed June 22, 2016.
  4. ↑ Ursula Kampmann: Panta rhei or a short history of the MoneyMuseum. In: Vernissage exhibitions No. 4/08, 2008, pp. 42–43.
  5. ↑ Ursula Kampmann: Panta rhei or a short history of the MoneyMuseum. In: Vernissage exhibitions No. 4/08, 2008, p. 43.
  6. ↑ There are print publications (under “Publications”) and radio plays as well as various audio products , especially podcasts .
  7. ↑ On the page of the Sunflower Foundations you can find materials in the areas of "Films", "Videos", "Audio" and "Money Thinkers".
  8. ↑ New articles on the topic of crisis.