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Money Matters

Thursday
Thursday, October 10, 2019 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm

Art Museum Galleries

Desmond Fitz-Gibbon, Associate Professor of History, and Aaron Miller, Associate Curator of Visual and Material Culture

Join exhibition curators Desmond Fitz-Gibbon and Aaron Miller for an introduction to the exhibition Money Matters: Meaning, Power, and Change in the History of Currency. Students from the "History of Money" course Emily Sheng, Ilika Tripathi, and Audrey Shannon will offer insights about specific objects in the exhibition, demonstrating how money can reflect systems of political power as well as societal innovation and change.

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Brixton Pound (British), Brixton ten pound note (detail), 2017
August 31, 2019 to June 20, 2021
Money Matters: Meaning, Power, and Change in the History of Currency

Money comes in a surprising multitude of forms and serves a variety of functions. We can trade it, we can hoard it, we can use it to measure our debts. However, Money Matters: Meaning, Power, and Change in the History of Currency demonstrates that money is much more. The objects on view...

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