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June 23, 2014
CENTimental Journey
With all the blogging we’ve been doing for Voices from the Engraver, you’d think we had nothing else on our exhibition plate. We do, actually, and it’s called CENTimental Journey. This temporary exhibition, hosted at the Canadian Museum of History, walks you through more than 150 years of the Canadian 1 cent piece. -
June 16, 2014
Museum Reconstruction - Part 2
We are coming up on a year since we closed the doors on the physical museum. During that year, we’ve worked very hard to make sure everybody knows that we are still a functioning museum and one that will be opening its doors again in a few years on a beautiful new space, with an expanded mission and mandate. -
June 13, 2014
CENTimental Journey
27 June 2014 - 26 June 2015 This temporary exhibition, hosted at the Canadian Museum of History, walked visitors through more than 150 years of the Canadian 1-cent piece. Featuring 12 significant coins, the exhibition evoked Canadian and world history even as it profiled our humble pennies. The coins were backed up with entertaining graphics […] -
June 6, 2014
About the Collection
Learn about the history of the National Currency Collection, explore some highlights and search our database. -
June 6, 2014
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. -
June 6, 2014
Collections
Who likes money? We do, and lots of it. And here is your window to our enormous collection of currency and currency-related artifacts. -
June 6, 2014
Broken Coins and Paper Promises
24 July - 13 December 2009
Broken Coins and Paper Promises explored the various functions of money and also illustrated what could happen in the absence of a central issuing authority like the Bank of Canada. -
June 6, 2014
Of Kings and Queens and Common Folk: Karsh at the Bank of Canada
12 June 2009 - 10 January 2010 This exhibit provided a glimpse into the early Bank of Canada through the lens of a master.
For a limited time, the Museum proudly displayed a series of Karsh photographs documenting the early years of the Bank of Canada. -
June 6, 2014
The Good, the Bad, and the Fake
11 January - 11 August 2011
This was a youth-oriented exhibition about counterfeiting and how to tell the difference between real and counterfeit paper money. -
June 6, 2014
By All Accounts: 75 Years of Central Banking
11 March - 24 December 2010
Guests revisited the history of the Bank of Canada and its Governors as seen through the eyes of outside observers— journalists, cartoonists, headline writers, economists, politicians, government-appointed commissions and the Canadian public.
