Every Time I Visit Your Museum, Bling Bling

September 6, 2013

Every Time I Visit Your Museum, Bling Bling

By Monica Reardon, The Affiliate

Housed in an historic bank building on Wall Street in New York City, the Museum of American Finance is dedicated to preserving, exhibiting and teaching about American finance and financial history. The founder, John Herzog, began with two exhibits in the US Custom House in 1988. Since then, this independent, non-profit museum has gradually expanded in exhibits and programs to what it is today, including becoming a Smithsonian Affiliate in 2001.

The museum currently has on display a unique piece on long-term loan from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Visitors during Smithsonian Museum Day Live! can get up close to a golden, bejeweled Monopoly set worth $2 million, created by jeweler Sidney Mobell. The board and pieces are solid 18-karat gold and encrusted with 165 precious gemstones including diamonds, rubies and emeralds. Bling Bling!! Even the dice are blinged-out with 42 full-cut diamonds marking the number dots on the die.

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