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The Museum of American Finance, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, is the nation's only public museum dedicated to finance, entrepreneurship and the open market system. With an extensive collection of financial documents and objects, seminars and educational programming, and a publication and oral history program, the museum portrays the breadth and richness of American financial and economic history.

Permanent interactive exhibits include The Financial Markets, Money: A History, Banking in America, Entrepreneurs and Alexander Hamilton. Recent temporary exhibits include Women of Wall Street, Trading on the Street, and Tracking the Credit Crisis.

The museum is located in Manhattan's financial district.

• Directions: Subway: 2, 3, 4, 5 to Wall Street; J, M to Broad Street; 1, R, W to Rector Street

• Disability Access: Fully ADA accessible.
• Gift Shops: The Museum Shop is the country's only finance-themed museum store, with an assortment of specialty merchandise with financial, historical and New York themes.
• Space Rental: The Museum of American Finance provides a unique, magnificent setting for corporate and private events. Located in the heart of New York's financial district, the Museum occupies 30,000 sq. ft. on three floors of the 1927 landmarked former headquarters of the Bank of New York. The restored and renovated grand mezzanine banking hall retains much of its original architectural detail. It boasts 30-foot ceilings, Palladian windows, a grand marble staircase and entrance, and arched wall panel murals painted by J. Monroe Hewlett. The Museum's exhibits have been designed to be movable to allow for seated dinners (up to 220 guests), as well as receptions and presentations (up to 400 guests). The Museum's education center on the concourse level is also available for lectures, conferences and seminars. This multipurpose space can seat up to 200 people, or can be divided into as many as six smaller rooms for meetings.
• Tours: Guided group tours Mon-Fri, 10 am-2:30 pm can accommodate up to 30 people per group. Tours take approximately 60 minutes and are ideal for students of all ages, from elementary school through MBA. The museum charges a $100 group fee for all guided tours and requires one chaperone for every 10 students. Cancellation fees of 50 percent of the total group tour expense will be assessed for last-minute cancellations or no-shows.

Get involved with Museum of American Finance

• Donations through NYCharities.org
• Memberships: Museum members receive free admission, a subscription to Financial History magazine, invitations to members-only events and a 10% discount in the Museum Shop. Membership packages at the $150 level or above also include all of the benefits of membership in the Smithsonian Institution.
• Subscriptions: The museum's quarterly membership magazine, Financial History, is the internationally-recognized source for the history of commerce and the development of the American capital markets. Each issue features articles about the people, companies and events that have contributed to the nation's financial system, with the intention of lending perspective to current business and financial issues. All levels of Museum membership include a one-year subscription, and back issues are available in the Museum Shop for $4 per copy.