The Wells Fargo History Museum is a museum operated by

Wells Fargo Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational financial services company with corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California; operational headquarters in Manhattan; and managerial offices throughout the United States and intern ...

in its corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California that features exhibits about the

History of Wells Fargo This article outlines the history of Wells Fargo & Company from its merger with Norwest Corporation and beyond. The new company chose to retain the name of "Wells Fargo" and so this article is about the history after the merger. Acquisitions in 1 ...

. It includes original stagecoaches, photographs, gold nuggets and mining artifacts, the

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, 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. 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. 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

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in downtown

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in Minneapolis, Minnesota *

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* Wells Fargo Museum (Phoenix) at Wells Fargo Plaza in

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* 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

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, which was the company's second office * Wells Fargo History Museum in

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