New Video Available

View the latest video in our CEO Series, featuring NYSE President Tom Farley. This new monthly video series features 10 CEOs from across the financial industry discussing “Why Wall Street Matters” from their individual perspectives. It is a collaboration between the Museum and Cheddar, a live and on demand news network covering technology, media and entertainment, which broadcasts daily from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Lunch and Learn Series

Video Playlist: 
Part 1: Experiencing the Crash of '87
Part 2: Partnering with the Nasdaq

The Museum's founder discusses his new book about the legendary Wall Street firm his family founded.

In 1959, John joined Herzog, Heine, Geduld, Inc., which his father founded in 1926. With Irwin and Buzzy Geduld, John spearheaded its expansion into the third-largest Nasdaq market maker in the country. After the sale of the firm to Merrill Lynch in 2000, he devoted himself to R.M. Smythe & Co., the family auction firm dealing in antique stocks and bonds, bank notes, coins and autographs. After the stock market crash of 1987, John founded the Museum of American Finance to enhance public understanding of the capital markets.

Walking Tour

Relive the Great Crash of 1929 on our 30th annual crash-themed walking tour of Lower Manhattan. This unique tour commemorates the Great Crash of 1929, the Panic of 1907 and the 1987 stock market collapse, and it delves into the political, financial, real estate and architectural history of Wall Street and New York.

$15 includes Museum admission. Register today.

Lunch and Learn Series

Sidney Rocke, the chief counsel for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP), will discuss how the government handles mutilated US currency that has been burned, buried or attacked by animals.

Talk followed by Q&A. $5 tickets include Museum admission; members and students free. Register today.

Lunch and Learn Series

We have all heard the phrase “history repeats itself.” Yet, very few people apply long-term history to the art and science of investing. There is no better example of this than how the majority of modern investors, the most knowledgeable and technologically advanced in history, mishandled the 50% stock market corrections during the dotcom bust and the Great Recession. Learn about time-tested investment tools from Ken Winans' award-winning financial history book, Investment Atlas II, and how to improve investment performance and reduce losses in future bull and bear markets.

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