Museums
Museum of American Financial History
Est. 1988

The Museum of American Financial History, located at 28 Broadway by Wall Street in New York City, New York, is the nation's only independent public museum dedicated to celebrating the spirit of entrepreneurship and the democratic free market tradition that has made New York City the financial capital of the world.

Founded in 1988, the museum was chartered as an educational institution. Today, financial education is at the core of the museum’s mission, and its public programs and services.

An active national-level advocate on behalf of the growing financial literacy movement, the Museum is committed to helping people look to the lessons of American financial history while taking charge of their own financial lives.

The museum helps to explain many of the theories put in motion just down the street at the New York Stock Exchange. Its ever-growing permanent collection contains such fascinating items as tickertape from the crash of 1929, the earliest photograph of Wall Street, and various artifacts documenting the nation's developing financial markets.

The building is a testament to the city's great financial barons. Located directly opposite the iconic "Charging Bull" statue, it not only housed Alexander Hamilton's law office but the headquarters of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company. This one-room museum packs a lot into its limited space, including currency displays, artifacts of the financial market's history, a vintage ticker-tape machine that will print out one's name, and well-executed temporary exhibits.

The Museum of American Financial History is not only for historians, but for citizens who want to know more about the money side of U.S. history.

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