Feodosia Money Museum

Coordinates: 45°1′49.68″N 35°22′48.12″E / 45.0304667°N 35.3800333°E

Feodosia Museum of Money
Established 2003
Location 12, Kuybysheva Street, Feodosia, Crimea, Russia/Ukraine[1][2]
Director Oleksandr Oleschuk
Website Feodosia Money Museum UA

The Feodosia Museum of Money was established on July 15, 2003. Opening ceremony took place on August 22, 2003.

The activities of the Feodosia Museum of Money are aimed at the study and popularization of the knowledge relating to coin-striking in Feodosia which of all cities of Ukraine can boast of as many as twelve periods of issue of money.

Collection

July 31, 2005 saw the solemn inauguration of the so-called “safe-room” in the Feodosia Museum of Money. On show in this room are money minted and printed in Feodosia from antiquity up to the present day, along with the currency samples that used to be in circulation throughout Ukraine and the Crimea for two thousand years as well as auxiliary objects. Besides, this exhibition hall highlights the history of banking from its early days on citing the example of Feodosia where banking dates back to antiquity.

There is a virtual Museum of Money covering the history of money circulation both in Ukraine and worldwide.

References

  1. ↑ This place is located on the Crimean Peninsula, most of which is the subject of a territorial dispute between Russia and Ukraine. According to the political division of Russia, located on the peninsula are the federal subjects of the Russian Federation (the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol). According to the administrative-territorial division of Ukraine, located on the peninsula are the Ukrainian divisions (the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city with special status of Sevastopol).
  2. ↑ Feodosia Money Museum website