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Museum of American Finance
48 Wall St, New York, NY 10005
+1 212 908 4110
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Dedicated to the development of capitalism, this museum was founded in 1988 and housed for two decades in a building erected by John D. Rockefeller in 1922. In 2008, it reopened in spacious facilities on Wall Street. It focuses on the history of Wall Street and American business in general. Exhibits range from the history of investment banking to the financing of the Civil War. There is also tickertape from the 1929 Wall Street stock market crash.

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4, 5 at Bowling Green

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Tu-Sa 10a-4p

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