Who would have thought that the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, which is called a "bank for banks", is a popular tourist attraction - the Museum of money. This is where you can witness the case with one million dollars, as well as the "money pit", which would be envied Scrooge McDuck.
For many, money - it's just a source of frustration and discouragement, but the Museum of money in Chicago shows the lighter side of cash. Reserve Bank of Chicago was one of the few banks that the federal government has opened up in 1913. Soon, however, required a reliable system for storing and managing the currency. And was established by the Federal Reserve Bank, which to this day are kept billions of dollars simply nepomeschayuschiesya in repositories other banks.
Museum of money in Chicago informative displays the history of the American currency, but most of all attracted attention, of course, his bizarre exhibits. In the eyes of visitors running shredder that cuts the American currency.
Interestingly, in the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago daily cut into pieces of about ten million dollars. In addition, tourists will have a glass cube, which houses one million American currency dollar bills. Its weight is almost one ton. The text mentioned about another exhibit "a million" - the case against which can be photographed by anyone. But in the cartoon coins money pit there for fifty thousand dollars.
Entrance to the museum is free, so anyone can plunge into the realm of money.
