Wells Fargo History Museum
The Wells Fargo History Museum is a museum operated by Wells Fargo in its corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California that features exhibits about the History of Wells Fargo. It includes original stagecoaches, photographs, gold nuggets and mining artifacts, the Pony Express, telegraphs and historic bank artifacts. The museum was initially known as the Wells Fargo History Room when it opened in 1927 in San Francisco. In 1935, a museum was opened for public tours.[1][2]
Until 2020, when eleven of the museums were closed by Wells Fargo, the company operated twelve museums in various cities in the United States. In 2020, Wells Fargo announced the closure of all but one of its museums.[3] The Wells Fargo History Museum in its corporate headquarters of San Francisco, California was the only museum to remain open.
Closed museum locations
- Financial Center in downtown Des Moines, Iowa[4]
- Three Wells Fargo Center in Charlotte, North Carolina
- Wells Fargo Center in downtown Los Angeles, California
- Wells Fargo Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Wells Fargo Building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Wells Fargo Museum (Phoenix) at Wells Fargo Plaza in Phoenix, Arizona
- Wells Fargo Center in Portland, Oregon
- Wells Fargo Center in Sacramento, California
- Alaska Heritage Museum in Anchorage, Alaska, which featured a large collection of Alaskan Native artifacts, ivory carvings and baskets, fine art by Alaskan artists, and displays about Wells Fargo history in the Alaskan Gold Rush era.
- Wells Fargo History Museum in the Pony Express Terminal in Old Sacramento State Historic Park, which was the company's second office
- Wells Fargo History Museum in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park
References
- Hudson, Caroline (September 2, 2020). "Wells Fargo to permanently shutter almost all of its museums". San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
- Calvey, Mark (February 19, 2015). "Wells Fargo History Museum reopens after gold heist". American City Business Journals.
- Eisen, Ben (September 1, 2020). "Wells Fargo Will Close Most of Its Corporate-History Museums". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660.
- Jett, Tyler (September 1, 2020). "Wells Fargo heritage museum in downtown Des Moines is history". Des Moines Register.
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