Money - Exhibition

Does money make your world go round?

A means for some, an end for others, a promise for many, money is a subject which excites the passions, and a fascinating concept in these times when finance permeates almost everything that happens.
The enormity of the sums at stake, the unprecedented hold the markets have over our lives, the speed with which fortunes come and go, the waltz of the stock exchanges and currency markets, the emergence of the mega-multinationals, with no control from any state - all this is either enthralling or alarming, depending on your viewpoint.

In choosing this subject, the Pass clearly expresses its desire to place itself at the heart of social and economic issues, adopting Protagoras' motto that "man is the measure of all things", extended to mean that man is the sole originator of the economy and of its goals. Another way to see and to read the world, so as to gain a lucid and active understanding.

Money: an exhibition and a game
Designed as a large-scale interactive game, the exhibition invites all visitors over the age of 10 to take part, learning in an entertaining way about monetary flows and the routes taken, financial systems, the cogs and mechanisms of the economy, and asking questions about the value of beings and of things...
Through 10 networked multimedia terminals, each visitor will have the chance to accumulate capital and to gamble, risk, spend, save, sell, buy, invest or burn it... In the end, players will have a more precise idea of their economic behaviour and their personal relationship with money: singing cicada, or hardworking ant?

Money, an exhibition in three chapters:

1. Exchange: from cocoa beans to the cyber market!
   From New York to Hong Kong, from Bujumbura to Baghdad, from Paris to Beijing, from Rio de Janeiro to Brussels - money makes the world go round. But what is it? Where does it come from? How is it produced? How does it circulate? What does it create?
2. Distinction: rich (like Cresus), poor (like Job)!
   This second chapter, consisting of 8 displays, develops questions about the power of money and the limits of mercantile evaluation (banking, wealth, debt, the stock exchange, money from crime etc.).
3. Spending: ladies and gentlemen, place your bets!
   Are you a woman or a man of money? Do you throw money out of the windows? Or do you keep close to your money? Come and play - and face your emerging self-portrait. Then, on a giant panoramic screen, play together at putting the world to rights, with or without money: exchange, cooperate, observe each other's interactions.