www.sechistorical.org

About the Museum

Welcome to the virtual museum and archive of the history of financial regulation, celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2012.

The museum provides access to original materials, not available elsewhere online, on the creation and growth of the regulation of the capital markets from the 20th century to the present. The museum is entirely virtual; there is no physical repository.

The museum's collection includes:

• Timeline: Linking regulatory developments against U.S. and world events from 1930 to the present.
• Galleries: Permanent exhibits within the museum, providing access to materials from throughout the collection on a particular topic.
• Papers
• Programs: Broadcast live on www.sechistorical.org, and preserved in video (limited), audio/MP3 and edited transcript formats.
• Oral Histories: Available in video (limited), audio/MP3 and edited transcript formats.
• Photos.
• Film, Radio and Television.

The museum and archive also provides Links other Web sites with related information.

Museum Building

The Executive Director has sole power to accession and de-accession materials in the collection of the virtual museum and archive, and exercises this power in consultation with the Museum Committee, a standing committee of the Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees has no say in the building of the museum.

Visitors are welcome to recommend material to be added to the collection by contacting the Executive Director. Material should not be sent without permission from the Executive Director. Material will be accepted only if:

• It relates to the purpose of the virtual museum and archive.
• It is original, and not available through other online sources.
• It builds on the collection and does not duplicate what is already accessioned.

All donors of material, including participants in oral histories interviews and programs, are required to sign a release. No material will be added to the collection until the signed release is received.