The ground floor is filled with 2 temporary exhibits.
Items from the Atwater Kent Collection at Drexel show how Philadelphia welcomed the world for its anniversaries, starting with the Centennial Exposition in 1876.
The State Department loaned items amassed over 250 years of diplomacy.
There are textiles from Kenya, a dragon robe from Hong Kong, and a clock from France sitting on a table from Argentina alongside a chair from the Czech Republic.
Drexel is now working on a permanent exhibit that will tell the story of Alexander Hamilton and America's first bank.
Before the bank was chartered by Congress in 1791, every state issued its own currency.
Hamilton argued for a central bank that would enable the new nation to pay off its massive Revolutionary War debt, stabilize its credit, and establish a national currency.
The grand bank building opened in 1797, beginning a long tradition of the federal government asserting its power through monumental architecture.
When the bank's congressional charter expired in 1811, merchant Stephen Girard turned it into a private bank and the interior was remodeled in 1902.
The National Park Service took it over in the 1950s and made it the first visitors center, until closing it in 1976.
The First Bank of the United States is now open to visitors again, Thursdays-Sundays, 11am to 4pm.
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