The Museum Blog

In January 2021, 17 of our old bank notes will lose their legal tender status—what does that mean?

There’s little doubt that the BCP45 is lovingly preserved today partly thanks to being immortalized on this beautiful blue five-dollar bill.

Among the laser pistols, hover cars and androids of science fiction, there’s an elderly elephant in the room: money.

The Bank of Canada Museum set some very ambitious goals at the end of 2018. We have managed to achieve more in one year than we had since we opened in 2017.

Private Edward Atkinson’s example of trench art is what is called a “love token”—a souvenir made from a coin. It’s one man’s personal wartime experience expressed through a pocket-sized medium.