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Museums · Ottawa
Bank of Canada Museum
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The Bank of Canada Museum (French: Musée de la Banque du Canada; since July 2017), formerly known as the Currency Museum (Musée de la monnaie). The Bank of Canada Museum is a cultural attraction located in downtown Ottawa, Canada's capital city. It is a part of Canada's central bank, mandated to educate Canadians about what the Bank of Canada does, how the economy works and the history of money. The Museum is part of the Bank of Canada's head office complex, built beneath the Bank of Canada's plaza on the corner of Bank and Wellington Streets near the Canadian Parliament Buildings. It is an interactive museum, one with many gamified hands-on exhibits designed to promote the concept that “you are the economy.” It is home to exhibits showing over 1,000 examples of Canadian and world currency, plus related items. The Museum's collection, the National Currency Collection, holds the most complete collection of Canadian coins, bank notes and tokens. The Museum provides many onsite and online educational resources on financial literacy, economics and the work of the Bank of Canada for students of all ages. It is Canada's only free national museum.
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Ottawa, ON
