Zurich will host the First Finance Museum in Switzerland

Zurich gets a new museum. The ‘Swiss Finance Museum’ will open on 28th June and it will be located at the new head office of Six in Pfingstweidstrasse 110.

The ‘Swiss Finance Museum’ will offer visitors a new multimedia exhibition illustrating the origins of our economic system as well as the major significance of the financial market and its infrastructure for our everyday life. The exhibition focuses on stock exchange trading, the capital market, financial instruments, payment transactions and technical objects, demonstrating the exemplary innovation of the financial industry. Visitors will be able to see the existing, world’s most significant collection of historical securities of the museum ‘Wertpapierwelt’, till Maj 2016 in Olten, at the new location. It will be assigned its own area within the exhibition space and stage changing thematic exhibitions. The exhibitions will be integrated into the Schweizer Finanzmuseum. The collection comprises around 10,000 historical shares and bonds from more than 150 countries.