2,793 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
A collection of Oriental objects became an institution offering exporters tariff advice, commercial contacts, and professional training. In this twenty-five-year history, published under the editorship of the museum’s Curatorium, Siegmund Feilbogen explains why that transformation mattered: manufacturing skill alone could not secure foreign sales. His account follows the practical work of turning samples, consular reports, and overseas connections into usable commercial knowledge, especially for medium-sized exporters. Institutional advocacy meets an instructive limit, however: the museum could count inquiries but could not reliably measure the business its assistance generated. Readers can discover how a publicly supported museum sought to make market intelligence freely available—and how difficult it was to demonstrate the returns on that service.