Our Grand Opening…
Couldn’t have gone better.
WE’RE OPEN!
1 July 2017
10:00 to 17:00
Open every day—always free
DECODING E-MONEY
16 September 2018 - 7 January 2019
Galt Museum & Archives
Lethbridge, AB
Mining the Miners
24 June 2016 - 31 December 2017
Canadian Museum of History
Gatineau, QC
VOICES FROM THE ENGRAVER
1 June 2017 - 30 August 2017
Timmins Museum: NEC
Timmins, ON
Museum Blog
11 July 2017 Our Grand Opening…
By: Graham Iddon
After four years of plans, worries, setbacks, successes and sheer hard work, the Bank of Canada Museum opened its doors—on Canada Day, right on schedule.
28 June 2017 July First, 2017: It’s Our Grand Opening!
By: Graham Iddon
Situated as we are on the edge of the Parliamentary Precinct, there could be no better time to open our doors than when tens of thousands of festive Canadians are likely to be milling around.
22 June 2017 Museum Reconstruction - Part 8
By: Graham Iddon
The last few stragglers among our artifacts are ready for installation and the interactives and digital labels are bulking up with the final software and data, in them, so it’s all there, functional and looking fantastic.
Now Open!
Summer Hours:
Monday to Sunday, from 10:00 to 17:00
Free Admission
Learn more about the exciting, interactive Bank of Canada Museum.
Complete Commemorative Note Series
Since issuing its first series of bank notes in 1935, the Bank of Canada has issued three commemorative bank notes. Each commemorative note marks an important milestone for the reigning monarch or a defining moment in Canadian history.
Collection Highlights
25 June 2014 5 Cents: Canada, 1943
The beaver briefly disappeared from our nickel during World War II. So did the nickel typically used in minting the coin, a consequence of wartime rationing of the metal.The New Building Project
Four years after the closing of the original Currency Museum, the Bank of Canada Museum is now open for business.
Travelling Exhibitions
If you are unable to come to us, then we’ll just have to come to you. Welcome to our travelling exhibitions program. It’s our way of extending the walls of the Bank of Canada Museum all across Canada.
Search the Collection
Looking for specific items in our Collection? Here you will be able to access all of the items in our Collection that have been digitized so far.