Feodosia Money Museum

Currency Museum in Territory of Ukraine, occupied by Russia

Feodosia Museum of Money


Established	July 15, 2003
Location	12, Kuybysheva Street, Feodosia, Crimea, Territory of Ukraine, occupied by Russia^[1] ^[2]
Type	Currency Museum
Director	Oleksandr Oleschuk
Website	Feodosia Museum of Money

The Feodosia Museum of Money (Russian: Феодосийский музей денег) is a currency museum in Feodosia, Crimea. It was established on July 15, 2003. The 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.

Collection

July 31, 2005 saw the solemn inauguration of the so-called “safe-room” in the Feodosia Museum of Money. On display in this room is 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 2,000 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

^ This place is located on the Crimean peninsula, which is internationally recognized as part of Ukraine, but since 2014 under Russian occupation. According to the administrative-territorial division of Ukraine, there are the Ukrainian divisions (the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city with special status of Sevastopol) located on the peninsula. Russia claims these as federal subjects of the Russian Federation (the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol).
^ Feodosia Money Museum website