Bank of Canada Museum

Pieces of paper, narrow, vertical with Japanese characters and symbols.

📚💴This is “bookmark money,” or hansatsu in Japanese.
Gods of wealth, bags of rice, denominated in coal or even umbrellas: read about this interesting Japanese currency—on the blog.
👉 https://bit.ly/41QPLkU
#SundayReading

Crudely cast coin with profile of a woman with elaborate hair.

🪙👑Deities inspire confidence.
If you’re a ruler trying to create confidence in your currency, you put your head on it, right? Not necessarily.
You might go straight to the top and put a goddess on it—such as Athena on this Ancient Greek coin.
#FridayFunFact

Photograph, child in glasses bent over a monitor in a dark museum environment.

📅 This #weekend: Sensory Sunday. We’re turning down the lights🔅 and the volume🔉.
😌A calm and quiet visit for sensory-sensitive visitors.
👉Learn more: https://bit.ly/3kg5lGP
#AutismAwareness

Photo, series of colourful cards arranged in a grid, each with a question about money.

💬💰Start a conversation about money with your family.
Download printable Money Conversation Cards, and spark discussion with questions that are sometimes serious, often fun but always thoughtful.
See our website 👉 https://bit.ly/48YbL46
#FLM2025 #TalkMoney

Clear acrylic rectangular objects, purple and turquoise stripes, vertical, a corner raised to a point.

Know a great #teacher🍎 of economics?
Nominate them for our Award for Excellence in Teaching Economics.
Win classroom resources, prizes and $1000 each for the lucky winner and their school.
Visit our website for details.
👉  https://bit.ly/3Xrx9Gs
#ThankYouTeachers

Cartoon character coloured in with crayons and a child’s hand with a pencil crayon.

🎭 Your kids will enjoy our paper puppet activity, but it comes with a catch.
The kids need to create a budget to “buy” their puppet parts.
At the Museum, every weekend in November.
👉 https://bit.ly/4nZoKHv
#FLM2025 #TalkMoney

Collage, illustrations, cartoons of young people and icons of economics and personal finance.

📚🍎Teachers, it’s the LAST week of #FinancialLiteracyMonth.
We have lots of activities and lessons for you and your class to enjoy (and learn from!), enhancing this significant part of your curriculum.
See our website:
👉 https://bit.ly/4nZoKHv
#FLM2025 #TalkMoney

Bank note with war bond ads on the back and the words, army of occupation authority on the front.

#DYKT Winnipeg was the location of a mock invasion in 1942?
What? Winnipeg? 😲
Actually, it was a war bond promotion, but a very realistic one.
Read all about this extraordinary event, on the blog.
👉 https://bit.ly/3HdzBtp
#SundayReading

Photograph, building entrance in an asymmetrical pyramid, glass front, angled purple stripes.

📣The Museum will be closed this Saturday and Sunday.
But we are open Monday at 10:00 am. 😊
Please see our website to plan your visit and learn all our opening hours.
👉 https://bit.ly/3TJrwCz

Illustration, collage, financial icons and 2 young restaurant owners.

🔓💸Check out our lesson plan, “Escaping Debt.”
Designed as an escape room, this plan will introduce grade 6–8 students to credit scores, borrowing strategies and calculating interest. Can you escape debt?
👉 https://bit.ly/4g9jcXP
#FLM2025 #TalkMoney

Collage, old bank note, portrait replaced by cartoon character in moustache.

It’s #Movember!
Time to grow your mo to support men’s health. 💙🧔
Of course, the moustache is no stranger to bank notes, so read about the best mos on money on the blog.
👉 https://bit.ly/48YMcNR
#SundayReading

Photo, smiling child holding cards, one with a doughnut the other a glass of water.

✨At the Museum, every day in November.
Before #kids can really understand how to handle money, they should understand the difference between a need and a want.
We can help with that!
👉 https://bit.ly/3uQW5Ox
#FLM2025 #TalkMoney

Collage, iconic money illustrations and photo of child working at a computer.

💸All About Money—a live, online program. 💻
📚🍎 Teachers, bring us into your grade 1–6 classroom for a presentation exploring all aspects of what money is.
In English: Nov. 18 at 1:00 PM
In French: Nov. 19 at 1:00 PM
Register now 👉 https://bit.ly/4nZoKHv
#FLM2025 #TalkMoney

Photo, museum exhibition environment, young boy in front of a museum display unit with a big wheel.

📍In North Battleford?
Visit the Western Development Museum and bring the kids to see our exhibition #MoneyInTenQuestions.
🎉It’s so much fun, they won’t even notice they’re learning.💡
👉 https://bit.ly/3J0VHUz

Illustration, engraving from a bank document, allegorical woman with a helmet and shield.

In summer 1914 Canada went to war! ⚔️
But how to pay for it? 💸
Taxes and duties were just not up to it, so Canada introduced a bond program of its own. Read about the first War Loan of 1915 on the blog. 👉 https://bit.ly/42yG7pU
#SundayReading

Bank note, Arctic Ocean landscape, 6 Inuit, men bending to ready kayaks for hunting.

It’s International Circumpolar Inuit Day!
🤔 #DYKT all the men on this note are identified?
Left to right: Gideon Qitsualik, Lazarus Paniluk, Solomon Kalluk, Ullattitaq Paul Idlout, Joseph Idlout and Elijah Erkloo.
Read the blog 👉 https://bit.ly/430x1ju
#FridayFunFact

Colourful flower and pot made from pieces of paper.

✨At the Museum, every day in November.
Pop in and get your little ones busy with the scissors✂️ and glue with our budget activity “Grow Your Savings.”
Budgeting and saving are one of the most valuable lessons your kids will learn. And we make it #fun
👉 https://bit.ly/3xMhiH8
#FLM2025 #TalkMoney

Photo collage, colourful pretend bank notes, sheets of paper coins, scissors and pencils.

🍎📚Teachers, we’ve got something for you! 🎉
Throughout November, pick up your free financial literacy resource kit at the Museum.
Elementary and high school kits available.
Thursdays through Mondays, 10 AM to 5 PM.
#FLM2025

Bank note, triangular patterns of brown stripes with a snake curled on top.

There are very few modern nations that put snakes on their money. Aruba is one and it put the Aruba Island Rattlesnake on this note from the nineties. #WorldSnakeDay🐍

Bank note model, patterns and numbers layered over an image of a ballet scene

Sometimes a bank note model was assembled by printing the note’s design features on a proposed image.
You can see a variety of bank note models—and production methods—in our display Money that almost was.
👉 bit.ly/4jCqAMe

Bank note, mountain landscape with passenger train winding toward viewer.

🛤️ This week in 1952, the Canadian Pacific Railway began using diesel locomotives in the Rockies. 🍁 VIA Rail’s “Canadian” train, on this note, uses coaches once pulled by those same engines. #TriviaTuesday

Bank note, both sides, young curly haired woman in pearls and a scene of farm fields on the back.

🍁 It's #CanadaDay week Buck-a-Day!
The 1954 one-dollar bill features an engraving of Queen Elizabeth II based on a portrait by Yousuf Karsh.
🔎 Find the wheat elevator and the approaching truck on the back. 👉 bit.ly/3FB9SxX

#HistoricDollars

Coin, gold colour, woman holding plans, a propeller aircraft flying behind her.

It's International Women in Engineering Day!

🍁 Elsie MacGill, Canada’s first professional woman engineer, was the chief engineer behind the Canadian production of 1,450 Hurricane fighter planes during WWII.

#INWED2025

Coin, silver, highly detailed circular pattern of symbols.

☀️🌻 This year’s #SummerSolstice hits tonight at 10:45 pm ET!

Check out this Mexican coin—it features a detailed Aztec calendar on the back.

The Aztecs tracked 365-day years and leap years.

#FactoidFriday #HelloSummer

Photo, colour, child’s hand colouring in a cartoon character.

🏫 Need an #EndOfSchool activity?
Give kids a #fun hands-on challenge: build puppets using our kit—BUT they have to do so on a budget! 💵
Download the kit: Includes printable play money + materials guide. 👉 bit.ly/3sOu8pI

Coin, gold colour, a house cat without a tail.

😱 Happy #FridayThe13th!
🐈‍⬛ #DYKT #BlackCats were nearly wiped out in the Middle Ages due to ties to witchcraft? 🧹
The Manx from the Isle of Man—often black—is one of the few kitties to appear on currency.
#FactoidFriday

Bank note model, nautical themed, bearded man with long hair wearing a large-brimmed hat.

🧭 #SamuelDeChamplain has occasionally been suggested for a Bank of Canada note—problem is, nobody knows what he looked like!

Explore more proposed designs in our temporary display.

👉 bit.ly/4jCqAMe

#FactoidFriday

Print, collage, images of animals and children taken from bank notes.

Come see what’s on in our temporary gallery!

🍁“The Greatest Stories Ever Told” features collages of bank note imagery by Canadian artist Ho Tam.

Mother Ho and Father Lee built a home of unconditional love...❤️

👉 bit.ly/4iPZ64o

Four children in a living room playing a colourful board game.

Who says games can’t grow #economic thinking? 🎮🎲

🧠🧮 We’ve rounded up 14 games that boost kids’ math, money & finance skills in a fun way.

Check them out on the blog! 👉 www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2021/02/play...

Waving cartoon character and 1-story building, triangular shape, glass-fronted with purple stripes.

Hello Bluesky! 👋
Welcome to the Bank of Canada Museum—Canada’s museum for money and economics.
Stick around for:
🔍 Cool artifacts & stories
📚 Free financial literacy tools
🎟️ Exhibition updates and sneak peeks
📆 Fun family events and activities
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