Personal Finance

Yet another enlightening experience is offered this year in our Museum, as a specifically rearranged area on its first level hosts the new temporary exhibition Personal Finance, accompanied by additional informative and educational features and activities, specially designed for secondary education students.

This original educational presentation examines personal finance as a journey that requires dedication, discipline and a commitment to lifelong learning, embracing the idea that in order to ensure a better planning for our financial future, achieve our goals and enjoy the peace of mind that comes with financial stability, we just need to acquire some basic knowledge and develop some simple skills.

In particular, the content of the exhibition focuses on the management of an individual's (or a family's) finances and is disseminated in an easily understandable way through rich audio-visual material and entertaining interactive exhibits, electromechanical and digital. Starting with the distinction between 'needs' and 'wants', it covers topics such as financial decisions, income, financial planning, savings, credit, inflation, digital frauds and counterfeit money. In addition, it refers to the strong interrelation between economy and climate change and examines the digital transformation of the modern financial system through ways such as digital payments, open finance, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies and central bank digital currency.

Through the inspection and interpretation of the textual, digital and interactive exhibits, the visitor is spontaneously led to a more correct correlation of the possession of money with the existence and/or creation of some income, learns about the history of money and its connection with the economy, understands the importance of saving and borrowing, is informed about traditional but also the most modern means of payment , as well as of cases (typologies) of fraud in financial transactions, while at the same time discovering and becoming familiar with methodologies for a more effective management of personal finances.