Graham Iddon
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November 2, 2018
Money’s Magnificent Moustaches
We would like to present some of history’s great moustaches—as seen on bank notes.
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October 31, 2018
The Devil is in the Hairdo
Have you ever seen eyes in the bark of trees? Wolves in the clouds? How about spooky things in bank notes?
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October 1, 2018
#AskACurator Day 2018
What would you ask a curator? Your chance was September 12, when the annual Twitter event #AskACurator Day took place on computers, tablets and mobile phones all around the globe.
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August 30, 2018
Happy Birthday, Dear Bank of Canada Museum!
A little grade 8 math revealed that, since our last full year of operation, we have increased Museum attendance by 91 per cent (pause while the audience claps).
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August 15, 2018
Death in the Ice
As the title suggests, this exhibition is more about the mystery surrounding the expedition’s fate than the expedition itself.
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July 25, 2018
The Canada Science and Technology Museum
A crowd of us from the Bank of Canada Museum took an afternoon to tour the CSTM and have a chat with some of its exhibition development team.
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July 11, 2018
Canada Day, 2018
We can handle around 350 people at once, so when we hit our maximum capacity, it looked like everybody on the Hill had dropped in for a little economic and numismatic education.
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May 28, 2018
Canadian Tulip Festival 2018
At first glance, you might wonder why a flower festival is a good fit for a money–themed museum. It’s worth a little history lesson to tell you why.
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May 16, 2018
Not Your Run-of-the-Mill School Visit
Our visitors were students from the Curatorial Studies Graduate Diploma Program at Ottawa’s Carleton University.
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March 27, 2018
Fakes, Forgeries and Phonies
During the break for the English school board, the Bank’s Currency Department teamed up with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to give visitors a chance to handle some modern counterfeit bank notes.
