Skip to content
  • FR
FR
  • Visit

    Visit

    • Plan your visit
    • Group visits
    • Accessibility and special needs

    About the Museum

    • Advisory groups
    • About the Bank

    Contact

    • Bank of Canada Museum
    • 30 Bank Street
    • Ottawa, ON
    • K1A 0G9, Canada
  • Explore

    Exhibitions

    • Permanent exhibition
    • Special exhibitions
    • Travelling exhibitions
    • Past exhibitions

    Blog

    Collection

    • About the Collection
    • Collection Services
    • Canadian Bank Notes Series
    • Search the Collection
    Man in a superhero costume crouching in an aisle of a home renovation warehouse.

    Economic Opportunity Costs

    With his superpowers, Peter Parker would no doubt do a fabulous job of tiling his kitchen backsplash. But as Spider-Man, he has more valuable things to do with his time.

  • Learn

    Learn

    • School programs
    • Lesson plans
    • Activities
    • Education blog
    • Educational resources

    Lesson Plan: Trading Planets

    Take a trade mission to planet Plutopia to discover why trading without a common currency is hard.

    Understanding Money: Common Questions

    Ever wondered who decides what goes on Canadian coins or bank notes? Or why our coins have certain names and our notes are different colours? Use this guide to help answer some of your money-related questions!

Notice of Temporary Closure

The Bank of Canada Museum remains closed due to COVID-19. Our museum experience is highly interactive, and our top priority is the safety of our staff and visitors. We look forward to welcoming you again once it is safe for us to reopen.

  • Home
  • The Museum Blog

Coming Soon to a Computer Near You

By: Nicole Gurski


April 28, 2014

Our New Website

As this blog is the only visible result of change, you might think we are doing nothing much to improve our website. Perish the thought! We’d like you to know that the Museum team has been hard at work for the past year upping the game on our website. We’ve been pulling it apart, laying the bits on a big table, pushing them around and spending hours figuring out how to put it back together in ways that will make it easier to navigate, more interactive and, if we can be a wee bit hip for one quick second here, way cool. (Okay, that hurt.)

We don’t have an official launch date yet, but if you want to get a sense of how we see it coming together, have a look at the new, freshly-launched version of the Bank of Canada’s public website. While you play around with the new site’s great menus and search tools, imagine how they might apply to the Museum website but with a more fun approach, more pretty pictures and far less fiscal policy research.

Here are some of the things we’re working to have ready when the moment for the big switchover arrives:

Museum galleries collage

  1. We’re determined to make searching our collection a satisfying experience. Finding specific artifacts, browsing our collection or looking for some of the interesting stories behind specific pieces will become much simpler and comprehensive than it has been in the past. Remember, our collection is over 100,000 pieces strong, so the artifacts won’t all be available overnight. But it will be vastly improved, and improving constantly into the future.
  2. You’ll be able to check out the website on your mobile device of choice without the usual annoying compromises. Thanks to the Bank’s Web Team commitment to ‘responsive design’, looking up travelling exhibition schedules or browsing through our consistently updated blog on your phone will be a pleasure. It will no longer be necessary to zoom into every button or require the fingers of an eight-year old to easily navigate.
  3. Many of you have asked us for more information about the new Museum space - what it will contain and when we expect it to open. Within the bounds of security (we are a central bank, after all), the new website will keep you current with our progress, featuring a section dedicated to construction updates.

You may note we have craftily neglected to include even a vague launch date for the new website in this post. We’re not trying to be coy; it’s still a bit up in the air. Keep checking back to see where we’re at with it; we promise to keep you posted.

We want to hear from you! Do you have an idea for a blog post you’d like to see?
Content type(s): Blog
Subject(s): Collection

Subscribe to The Museum Blog
The Museum Blog

January 4, 2021

Economic Opportunity Costs

By: Graham Iddon


Man in a superhero costume crouching in an aisle of a home renovation warehouse.
With his superpowers, Peter Parker would no doubt do a fabulous job of tiling his kitchen backsplash. But as Spider-Man, he has more valuable things to do with his time.
Content type(s): Blog Subject(s): Education
November 30, 2020

How Many Groats Are in a Noble?

By: Graham Iddon


For daily users of modern money, getting an understanding of the old British system of currency can be an act of confusion and wonder. But it’s also a peep into 13 centuries of European numismatic history.
Content type(s): Blog Subject(s): Collection, History
November 27, 2020

Understanding Money: Common Questions

By: Nathan Sells


Ever wondered who decides what goes on Canadian coins or bank notes? Or why our coins have certain names and our notes are different colours? Use this guide to help answer some of your money-related questions!
Content type(s): Blog Subject(s): Education
November 2, 2020

Teaching Economics During the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Adam Young


Authentic, teachable moments show students how the Bank of Canada is helping the economy navigate the COVID-19 pandemic.
Content type(s): Blog Subject(s): Education
October 21, 2020

The Story Behind the Engraving

By: Graham Iddon


The men on the back of this bill were part of a small community of families, a summer hunting camp called Aulatsiivik on Baffin Island.
Content type(s): Blog Subject(s): Collection, History

More Info

30 Bank Street
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0G9, CANADA
613-782-8914

Visit

  • Plan your visit
  • Accessibility and special needs
  • About the Museum
  • Contact
  • Explore

  • Exhibitions
  • Collection
  • Collection Services
  • Canadian Bank Notes Series

Learn

  • School programs
  • Lesson plans
  • Activities
  • Educational resources
  • Blog

●●
Bank of Canada Museum

Visit the Bank of Canada web site ›