Boy's Town Philamatic Center. Boys Town was first located in the former home of ByronReed in Omaha, Nebraska. The Philamatic center opened on July 1, 1951. Although theemphasis is on stamps, they also show numismatic material. Mel Stark, curator 1960-1979. LeoJ. Eckert, curator 1979-1984, D. O. Barrett, curator.

Durham Museum. Omaha, Nebraska. Featuring the Byron Reed Collection. The exhibitwas mounted by curator Dr. Larry Lee. [Open]

Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas. When I visited the Bellagio Hotel in 2005, they had a moneymuseum with an admission charge. I was unwilling to pay the price of admission.

Columbus Industries, Inc., Reno. Nevada. announced the opening of a money museum in1988. They were a coin dealer and auction company. The museum was not mentioned again.

Nevada State Museum, Carson City. The museum is in the Carson City Mint building andincludes an exhibit of Carson City coinage and some mint equipment. [Open]

Princeton University Library, Numismatic Collection. Louis West, curator after 1944.Alan Stahl, curator after 2004.

American Numismatic Society, Manhattan, New York. Located in Audubon Terrace,Broadway and West 155th in 1904. Moved to Fulton and William Street in 2003. Moved again in2008 to 75 Varick Street. The collection includes an estimated 800,000 objects. [CurrentlyActive]

Barnum's American Museum, New York City. Broadway and Ann Street. Owned by P. T.Barnum who acquired Scudder's American Museum in 1841. The Museum was destroyed by fireon July 13, 1865.

Chase Manhattan Bank Money Museum,Rockefeller Center, Manhattan, New York. Thecollection was formed by Farran Zerbe whocreated temporary exhibits at world's fairs andexpositions; the museum was established in1929, closed in 1973; donated to the SmithsonianInstitution. Vernon Brown, curator, retired in1963. Gene Hessler, curator 1967-1973.

Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall Street, Manhattan. Affiliated with the SmithsonianInstitution. Exhibits include stocks and bonds but do not include coins or paper money. Thebuilding was damaged by flooding in 2018 but the exhibits survived.

New-York Historical Society. 170 Central Park West, New York City. Founded in 1804,they claim to be New York's oldest museum. That is a statement to which the Tammany SocietyMuseum might take exception. They acquired the John C. Kunze collection from his widow in1818. A few years later, the collection was stolen, leaving only the empty cabinet. Recently, in2013, they had the 1933 Double Eagle on display there. {Currently Active]

Riley's Fifth Ward Museum Hotel, New York City. 94 Broadway. Formed by ThomasTiley. Opened in 1826. The collection was sold at auction in 1864.

Tammany Society Museum, New York City. Situated in the Exchange building in 1793.Collection formed by Gardner Baker. It included several hundred coins and medals. On April 20,1796, a glass case was broken and silver coins were taken, the second theft from the museum.This made Baker the first victim of a numismatic theft in America. [Closed]

Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina. Despite its name, this is an art museum withoutnumismatic exhibits.

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Learning Center and Money Museum, Superior andEast Sixth Street, Cleveland, Ohio. Closed September 11, 2001; reopened on January 3, 2005.[Currently Active]

Western Museum, Cincinnati. Opened in 1820 as a natural science museum. It includedcoins on exhibit. [Closed]

American Philosophical Society, American Museum. Pierre Eugene Du Simitiere wasowner and curator 1776 to 1781. After his 1784 death, the contents of the museum were sold bya 1785 broadside in what may be the first American auction of a coin collection.

First Bank of the United States, Philadelphia. The building is undergoing a 22.2 milliondollar renovation project. It is scheduled to reopen as a money museum in 2026.

Independence National Historical Park. Congress Hall. Frank Stewart transferred the to Congress Hall on October 22, 1914, with the understanding that thecollection would be exhibited indefinitely. Some items were transferred to the FourthPhiladelphia Mint in 1969.

Peale's Philadelphia Museum, Philadelphia. Established by Charles Willson Peale.Situated on the second floor of Independence Hall in 1802. The Peale family sold the museum in1849. [Closed]

Philadelphia Mint, Mint Cabinet. Adam Eckfeldt established the Mint cabinet in 1838,setting aside coinage returned to the Mint and restriking coins missing from the collection. TheMint created an exhibit with 7000 coins and 2000 medals for the Columbian Exposition. Thecases were returned to Philadelphia and installed at the Mint. William Ewing DuBois, curator1838-1881. Robert A. McClure, curator 1881-1902. T. Louis Comparette, curator 1905-1922. In1923 the Mint Cabinet was transferred to Washington D.C. and the National NumismaticCollection. [Closed]

The Fourth Philadelphia Mint has a small exhibit area at the mezzanine level. The lobbyincludes the Tiffany mosaics from the Third Philadelphia Mint. The Mint has unfortunate errorsinterpreting the history of the Mint.

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum. They had, at one time, more than 200,000 coins includingthe Clapp large cents. William W. Woodside, curator.

Union Planters National Bank Money Museum, 100 North Main, Memphis, Tennessee.Opened May 1, 1969. Featuring the collection of P.(owell) B.(inford) Trotter. Helen Williams,curator.

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Money Museum. Permanently closed in Spring of2023.

Fred W. Harris Money Museum, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. Described as the world'slargest portable money museum. Exhibited in various forms in the 1930's, it was described asmore diverse than the Chase Bank Museum. Reverend Harris died in 1938. His collection wassold at auction by Bolender in 1940. [Closed]

To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
SHAPERO, DODSON AND THEIR MONEY MUSEUM(https://www.coinbooks.org/v26/esylum_v26n48a20.html)
CHASE MANHATTAN MUSEUM BRENNER EXHIBIT(https://www.coinbooks.org/v26/esylum_v26n48a21.html)