Mercantile Money Museum (1981-1996)

Recently digitized by Newman Portal are a set of color transparencies from the Mercantile Money Museum, which operated in downtown St. Louis at the Mercantile Bank from 1981 to 1996 under the direction of Eric P. Newman. The Mercantile Money Museum was closed in 1996 and revived in 2006 as the Newman Money Museum, which then operated in the Kemper Art building at Washington University from 2006-2018. Prior to closure of the Newman Money Museum, an extensive series of videos documented the Money Museum and individual cases for posterity.

What did other museums, such as the Chase Manhattan Bank Money Museum, or Money Museum at the National Bank of Detroit look like? What was included in these important collections? In many cases, documentary evidence is scattered. Today's technologies enable better answers for future historians, with the American Numismatic Association's Virtual Museum being a good case study of what is now possible.

Link to Mercantile Money Museum slide set on Newman Portal:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/imagecollection/517701

Link to Mercantile Money Museum archives on Newman Portal:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/archivedetail/549781?Year=1990&take=50

Link to Newman Money Museum videos:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/multimediadetail/515508?Year=2016&take=50

Link to ANA Virtual Museum exhibits
https://www.money.org/money-museum/virtual-exhibits/