America's Credit Union Museum and ACU Research Center

America's Credit Union Museum and ACU Research Center The museum's carefully laid out floor plan and dynamic exhibits reveal the creativity and professionalism that guided its development from start to finish.

Housed in the building where our country's first credit union was born, America's Credit Union Museum offers a one-of-a-kind interactive experience that brings to life a vision as relevant today as it was 100 years ago. Located in Manchester, New Hampshire on the site where America's first credit union opened its doors in 1908, America's Credit Union Museum is an exciting and dynamic organization

that is no mere repository of documents and artifacts. In addition to celebrating the remarkable efforts of the people who built the credit union movement over the past 100 years, it plays a leading role in documenting today's achievements while helping to prepare credit unions for upcoming challenges. True to its heritage and the vision put forward in its original mission statement, the museum has become a first-class facility which provides visitors with an exciting and intriguing multi-dimensional experience. America's Credit Union Museum fills a role no other credit union organization or affiliate does. It is where the history of the credit union movement lives on. It is the only institution that collects, archives, preserves and displays evidence of the credit union roots. It cares for and makes accessible to this generation and all generations to come, real examples of values, philosophy, struggles and successes of credit unions. The museum is not only home to our remarkable ancestral artifacts, it is a distinctive tribute to the founders and leaders-their vision, their commitment and determination, their sacrifice and special triumphs. All of these made it possible for credit unions to be the viable and progressive movement we are today. The museum helps impart wisdom to future generations into whose hands we trust this great credit union movement. It acquires and maintains memorabilia of what is of great and lasting importance and interest to credit unions. It continually looks to enhance and add to the archives that benchmark the progressions of the credit union movement from its earliest beginnings through the present. America's Credit Union Museum embodies the philosophy that "it is through knowing where we have been that we know who we are and where we are headed." Only in the museum is there an incomparable collection of items, materials, and media, chronicling the significant people, events, records and milestones that form and document the basis of what credit unions are and what they do. Ultimately, America's Credit Union Museum is a cooperative resource that celebrates the credit union movement past, present and future. It embraces and strives to demonstrate cooperation, caring and imagination, the characteristics that have made credit unions such a vitally important part of American life today.

Happy Birthday, St. Mary's Bank
04/06/2026

Happy Birthday, St. Mary's Bank

Thank you Frank, for sharing this history lesson!!
02/03/2026

Thank you Frank, for sharing this history lesson!!

By Frank J. Diekmann If you missed our reporting, Buck Levins recently passed away. Who?, you may ask. You’ve probably heard the phrase “forgotten by history,” so allow me to share […]

Celebrating International Credit Union Day with a piece of history that reminds us where it all began.We’re honored to s...
10/16/2025

Celebrating International Credit Union Day with a piece of history that reminds us where it all began.

We’re honored to share these incredible artifacts from our museum collection: a commemorative 5-Deutsche Mark coin issued in 1968 by the West German Government, marking the 150th anniversary of Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen’s birth—the visionary behind the credit union movement.

These pieces were generously gifted to us by our friends at the Credit Union Association of New Mexico (CUANM), and we’re deeply grateful for their commitment to preserving and sharing the legacy of cooperation.

Raiffeisen believed that "What one cannot do alone, many can" and that working together was the key to prosperity. He saw cooperation as a way for people to pool their resources to meet their own needs. Today, we carry that torch forward—celebrating the impact of credit unions around the world and the enduring spirit of financial inclusion.

Happy birthday,Louise Herring We’re honored to shared your legacy.
09/20/2025

Happy birthday,
Louise Herring
We’re honored to shared your legacy.

Sneak Peek #2: The ExhibitThey were never in the spotlight—but they lit the path. Our upcoming Unsung Heroes exhibit is...
09/16/2025

Sneak Peek #2: The Exhibit

They were never in the spotlight—but they lit the path. Our upcoming Unsung Heroes exhibit is a tribute to the quiet changemakers who shaped our story. We’re lifting the veil on the everyday brilliance that built our legacy.

This isn’t just history—it’s a living thank-you.
Opening September 24. Come see what legacy looks like when you zoom in.

www.acumuseum.org/openhouse

We hope you can join us for our annual Open House.This year we’ll share the first installment of Unsung Heroes.Www.acum...
09/02/2025

We hope you can join us for our annual Open House.
This year we’ll share the first installment of Unsung Heroes.
Www.acumuseum.org/openhouse

Tomorrow is the day: LABOR OF LOVE
08/26/2025

Tomorrow is the day: LABOR OF LOVE

This Labor Day season, America’s Credit Union Museum will honor the working families and community champions who helped shape the credit union movement. On Wednesday, August 27, we will hold Labor of Love: A Day of Giving, a nationwide effort to preserve their legacies and ensure their contributio...

In the quiet of the Colorado Rockies, a small band of credit union pioneers gathered with a bold vision — to unite credi...
08/11/2025

In the quiet of the Colorado Rockies, a small band of credit union pioneers gathered with a bold vision — to unite credit unions nationwide for the good of everyday people. From that meeting, the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) (now America's Credit Unions) Happy (belated) Birthday ACU!!!

Many of their names never made the headlines, yet their work shaped the course of the credit union movement. These were true unsung heroes — ordinary people with extraordinary resolve.

As America’s Credit Union Museum celebrates our Unsung Heroes of the Credit Union Movement initiative, we honor those who stood in that mountain lodge in 1934, and the countless others who have carried their cooperative spirit forward ever since.

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