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Nov 04 2023

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 was 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. 


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
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