Financial History Issue 116 (Winter 2016) | Page 7

MUSEUM NEWS  

THE TICKER

On November 19, more than 250 members and guests attended the opening of the
Museum’s new exhibit, “Worth Its Weight:
Gold from the Ground Up.” Special guests
included renowned jewelry artist Sidney
Mobell, creator of the solid gold Monopoly
set and 17 other works in the exhibit, many
of which are on loan from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Harold Closter, director of Smithsonian
Affiliations, also attended the opening
and delivered remarks, highlighting two
dozen objects on loan from three Smithsonian museums including a duplicate of the
“Sounds of Earth” gold record created for
the two Voyager spacecraft, on loan from
the National Air & Space Museum.

“Worth Its Weight” is the Museum’s
largest exhibit to date, occupying three
galleries and featuring hundreds of objects
on loan from more than 40 public and
private collections around the world. In
addition to the Smithsonian, other lenders in attendance at the opening included
representatives from the Tiffany & Co.
Archives, the Yeshiva University Museum,
the International Precious Metals Institute
(IPMI) and Heraeus, as well as numerous
individual lenders and contemporary jewelry designer Marla Aaron, whose work is
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