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COTRUGLI Business Museum
2,449lives54rooms2950 BC – 1966period607kwords
Timeline
Every life as a dot, from the Assyrian merchants of Kanesh to the 20th century. Move through the periods and open anyone.
2,449 lives · 3000 BC to 1966Rooms
Stories of routes, banks, companies and empires, with chapters, images and the people connected to them.
54 rooms · 303 chaptersLives
An index of every merchant, banker, printer and explorer in the museum, by period.
2,449 livesMap & tours
Where the lives were lived, a period slider that you can play, and guided journeys through a room.
2,159 placed lives · 21 toursMeet someone
Andrea Gritti1455-1538
Sebastiano Montelupi 1516-1600
Søren Norbydied 1530
Bartholomäus Viatis1538-1624
Raja Bhamashah1542-1600
William Adams1564-1620
Willem Usselincx1567-1647
Sir William Blackett1621-1680
Mitsui Takatoshi1622-1694
Sir John Banks1627-1699
Kinokuniya Bunzaemon 1669-1734
Robert Foulis1707-1776
Aaron Lopez1731-1782
John Brown1736–1803
Alexander Andreyevich Baranov1746-1819
Eli Whitney1765–1825
Manockjee Cursetjee1808–1887
Naraina Pillaifl. 1819-1827
Dinshaw Maneckji Petit1823-1901
Furukawa Ichibei1832-1903
Yasudo Zenjiro1838-1921
Sir Currimbhoy Ebrahim 1840-1924
Kayarohanam Thamboosamy Pillai 1850-1902
Cheong Yoke Choy1873-1958