Bank of Canada Museum
@bankofcanadamuseum.ca
We are dedicated to helping visitors better understand Canada’s monetary history and the importance of our central bank.
En français: @museedelabanqueducanada.ca
En français: @museedelabanqueducanada.ca
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
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
November 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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
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
✨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
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
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
✨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
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
💸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
📚🍎 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
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
💸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
📚🍎 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
📍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
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
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
📍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
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
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
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
November 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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
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
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
🤔 #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
November 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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
🤔 #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
✨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
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
November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
✨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
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
🍎📚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
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
November 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
🍎📚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
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
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🐍
July 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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🐍
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
You can see a variety of bank note models—and production methods—in our display Money that almost was.
👉 bit.ly/4jCqAMe
July 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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
You can see a variety of bank note models—and production methods—in our display Money that almost was.
👉 bit.ly/4jCqAMe
🛤️ 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
July 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🛤️ 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
🍁 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
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
July 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🍁 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
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
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
🍁 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
June 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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
🍁 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
☀️🌻 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
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
June 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
☀️🌻 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
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
🏫 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
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
June 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🏫 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
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
😱 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
🐈⬛ #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
June 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
😱 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
🐈⬛ #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
🧭 #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
Explore more proposed designs in our temporary display.
👉 bit.ly/4jCqAMe
#FactoidFriday
June 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🧭 #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
Explore more proposed designs in our temporary display.
👉 bit.ly/4jCqAMe
#FactoidFriday
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
🍁“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
June 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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
🍁“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
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...
🧠🧮 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...
June 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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...
🧠🧮 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...
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
Click, like, follow—explore with us!
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
Click, like, follow—explore with us!
June 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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
Click, like, follow—explore with us!
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
Click, like, follow—explore with us!