Challenges at this station vary with the age of the visitor group. Detectives think about the monthly expenses of adults, while explorers and experts are invited to take on different roles. In their respective roles, the visitors are given a fictional budget and asked to allocate the money to the seven major expense categories. In the evaluation stage, statistical data are used to see how realistically the participants planned their budgets.

The visitors are split into three small groups and play a game of financial and budgeting challenges. The challenges are shown on the athletes’ Wallets and have to be mastered by the team. Correct questions to answers make it easier to ride the stationary bike. Greater financial independence thus leads to a direct physical sensation for the athletes. For explorers and experts, the game also includes a number of long-term financial decisions that are made at the Reality Check station, with consequences that emerge as the game progresses.

In a room furnished with the interior of an authentic former bank vault, the visitors are confronted with the question of how much value attaches to an object. They split up into small groups to explore the safe deposit boxes in the context of a card game. In the game, they are asked to determine the value of different items, taking into account price, utility value and emotional significance. It quickly becomes clear that price is not the same as value and that different values may be attached to an object.

The Opinion Forum demonstrates how important it is to develop well-founded positions on financial and economic issues. The visitors are first asked an apparently simple question. Then clips from street interviews are shown, and an expert discusses different views on the issue. The visitors can continue the discussion, formulating and arguing their own positions. The point is not to get it right (or wrong), but to show how important it is to build up a solid information base before forming an opinion.

The life story of a product is shown on a globe-like arrangement of monitors. As the group walks around the globe, following the product, the visitors learn about international connections, interdependence and other economic factors. They realise that their actions and decisions affect people in other parts of our globalised world. The story starts with short film sequences. The visitors are asked to answer questions, and the story continues according to their answers. A second trip around the globe illustrates how the group’s individual decisions affect six people in different parts of the world.

A wrap-up round at the end of the tour leaves room to discuss any remaining open questions. The educator sums up the content of the tour, interprets the results and leads discussions among the visitors. Moreover, the visitors have the opportunity to rethink their answers to the five questions that were asked at the start. On the basis of the quiz results, they are grouped into “money types” in order to stimulate further thinking about how they deal with money.

The Knowledge Store is the content backbone of the FLiP. Here visitors can explore and get in-depth information on topics that have come up during the tour. Both the objects and the graphical dots can be scanned with the Wallet to read the content behind them. However, it is not apparent at first sight how topics are interconnected. The challenge to the visitors is to think about the information and find connections. Texts, pictures and animated films are used to present information from the three main fields of personal finance, basic economics and functions of a bank.