For the last 25 years, I could have so many opportunities to visit the Philadelphia Mint, especially when I lived in Washington DC and it was just a short train ride away. For some reason, it just never happened, I always concentrated on other things during my travels. But I have to say, it was …
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The guide dog who visited the most money museums
From 2014 until about 2022, I was traveling with my guide dog, Baldwin. He has been to 12 money museums, in 6 countries and 11 cities. On October 20th, at the age of 13, he died. While it is not a blog about my guide dog, I still felt appropriate to post this, since many …
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Mint Museum in Madrid, museo casa de la moneda
I was wrapping up a conference in Spain and I had a few extra hours in Madrid. Without a doubt, I knew that if I’ll have time for one more thing, it will be the Mint Museum, Museo Casa de la Moneda. Given that still most money museums are still not accessible, generally I make …
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The Bank of Canada Museum
A few days after my presentation about accessible coin exhibits, I got a call from the Bank of Canada Museum, which was previously called the Currency Museum, to enquire about my presentation, and it turned into an on-site visit. I spent a day with the museum’s employees where we discussed my ideas about accessible exhibits, …
Really BIG Money at the Smithsonian
Recently I learned that the Smithsonian has a new accessible exhibit, called Really BIG Money. And you know me, I just need to check things like that, so I used the excuse that flying home from Cincinnati there was no direct flight and I had to switch flights in Washington DC. Layovers are where good …
The New Orleans Mint, when things don’t go well
I spent the last week in New Orleans, and as soon as I found out about my trip, I started to prepare to visit the Mint museum. However, things didn’t turn out too well. Previously I was writing about fun travels and museum visits, and maybe a few years ago I wouldn’t have admitted what …
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Visiting the Hungarian National Museum’s numismatic collection
Another numismatic bucket list was checked off when we visited the Hungarian National Museum’s numismatic collection. This time, again, we traveled with the family. I kept putting it off, as I was traveling to Hungary quite often and I thought I’ll always have time for it. I wish I have started with this museum. Before …
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World’s Fair of Money 2019
This year I have attended the World’s Fair of Money for the second time. Again, the main reason was because I submitted a presentation which was accepted. Learning from the previous experience in 2015, I prepared very differently this time.
Back to India
I had a feeling that I would need to get back to India for more work, but I didn’t think it was going to be that soon. Though last year I spent almost three weeks in India, there was so much more I wanted to learn about, I was delighted to find out that I …
Collecting in Mexico, braille coins and currencies
It’s been my dream to go to Mexico for almost 20 years. I went to California to a conference almost every year, and for some reason I was never able to go over to Mexico. Either no time, no money, or both.