Your Center for Culture, Research and Documentation Bank of Greece presents the new periodic exhibition “Personal Finance” at the Bank Museum.
The exhibition highlights the way in which households (individuals or families) can manage the resources they have, in order to best cover the needs and desires of their members.
The exhibition is educational in nature and includes audiovisual materialas well as interactive electromechanical and digital exhibits. Its objective is financial education. It is aimed at the general public, with an emphasis on the student community of all grades, and covers and deals with issues as:
- Distinguish between needs and wants
- Income and non-existent “money trees”
- Financial decisions
- Economic planning
- History of money
- Cashless payments
- Savings and credit
- Inflation
- Fake banknotes and security features
- Self-protection against digital scams
- Open Finance
- Cryptocurrencies
- Central bank digital currency
- Sustainability and economy
Student activities around the exhibition
- Museum education program “Care, for honor”
Students move through the modern interactive exhibition area and participate, under the direction of those responsible for the Museum, in small experiential and interpretative actions at selected points-stations. The learning objectives of the program include an overview of the concepts of “money”, “purchasing power” and “price stability”, understanding the phenomenon of inflation, its impact on the purchasing power of money and the prices of goods and services, and the institutional role of Central Banks in guaranteeing price stability.
- Personal Finance Guided Tour
During the tour, each student learns to relate having money to having income, learns the history of money and its relationship with the economy, understands the importance of saving and taking loans and learns about payment methods, but what about cases of financial fraud. transactions. During the tour, the exhibition’s textual, digital and interactive exhibits are interpreted and, at the same time, methodologies are proposed for more efficient management of personal finances.
The original content of the exhibition is also available digitally, node https://museum.bankofgreece.gr/personalfinance.
- Four books (student and teacher in high school and high school) are available free of charge to visitors, in translation adapted to the Greek reality of the series “All for one, Economy for all” by the Bank of Italy (Banca d’ Itália). In 2025, two additional books (student and teacher for Primary) will be available.
- The exhibition catalogue.
Report contributors
The exhibition is organized by the Center for Culture, Research and Documentation of the Bank of Greece, assisted by the Department of Analysis and Economic Studies, the Innovation Center, the Center for Climate Change and Sustainability, the Department of Technical and Administrative Support, the Department of IT and the Bank’s Communication Unit.
The exhibition opens to the public on Thursday, October 24th.
Entry is free.