Last April, secondary school students from the Liceo Classico Statale Ennio Quirino Visconti, in Rome, created a display for Banca d'Italia's premises in Via delle Quattro Fontane. The title of this project is 'The Symbols of Power. A journey on the trail of commodity-money items through Africa, Asia and Oceania'.
Students involved in the work-experience programme for high schools (PCTO), run by MUDEM staff, designed and set up an exhibition of objects used as currency. The exhibits were selected from the Voltolina Collection, belonging to Banca d'Italia's Money Museum.
Among the items selected by the apprentice curators are spears, knives, swords and javelin heads, as well as coin necklaces, beads and shells.
Browse the images to see how the students chose to represent the symbolic role of money among different civilizations.
For more information, read the news item Economics in science museums.
Economics in science museums
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Display at Banca d'Italia's premises in Via delle Quattro Fontane, Rome -
Commodity money from the Voltolina Collection -
Commodity money from the Voltolina Collection -
Commodity money from the Voltolina Collection -
Commodity money from the Voltolina Collection -
Commodity money from the Voltolina Collection -
Concluding presentation of the PCTO -
Commodity money from the Voltolina Collection -
Commodity money from the Voltolina Collection
