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The Museo Banco de México is divided into five spaces with exhibits about money and the close relationship of Banco de México with society.
The bank entrance hallway is the welcome area. Visit it to appreciate its beautiful architectural details and enjoy the animated projection of the stained-glass window by Fermín Revueltas.
Here you can also get a first impression of Banco de México, what it does, how it is related to you, and why it has opened the doors of its headquarters building to the public.
Enter this space created for you, where you can enjoy the restoration of the architectural and decorative features of the Bank Hallway, which took place in 2021.
The story of money begins more than 5,000 years ago. Its evolution from seeds to electronic data has been marked by changing needs in societies seeking more efficient ways to exchange goods and services.
Get to know our numismatic collection through various interactive experiences, in which you can identify the most important moments in the story of money and discover various ways money has been transformed in adaptation to different context. What do you think money will be like in the future?
Explore the numismatic samples. You will become familiar with distinct forms of money, from stones, necklaces and tools to banknotes and coins. This selection of numismatic pieces from around the world will take you on a voyage to different eras, in which you will get to know what kind of money was used in each.
Each of the pieces exhibited shows how money has always maintained three key functions: it is widely accepted by society to make purchases and payments; it is used to set prices and register debts; and it is used to transfer the capacity to buy goods and services across time.
We hope that through these objects, banknotes and coins, you can find out what commercial transactions were like in the past, and explore some interesting facts that might surprise you.
Banco de México is our nation's central bank. Our activities are focused on providing society with domestic currency, the Mexican peso, and ensuring that this money functions as a means of exchange, unit of account and store of value, so that we can use it with confidence in all our transactions. We invite you to meet them!
How do we accomplish this?
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By orienting all our actions toward achieving our priority objective and aims:
- Safeguarding the purchasing power of the domestic currency, our priority objective.
- Promoting the healthy development of the financial system.
- Providing the economy with domestic currency and fomenting the adequate functioning of the payment systems so that people can make transfers and other payments quickly and safely.
Explore these interactive experiences and discover the effects of Banco de México’s work on families and businesses.
Get to know the Banco de México timeline
The vaults in the basement of the building are an emblematic space, where valuables were placed for close safekeeping, evidence of the trust placed in Banco de México.
The immersive experience “Journey to the Center of Trust” in the basement vault area has limited capacity. To ensure entrance please reserve it by date and time available, in the museum ticket window or on our website.
Discover the fine engraving and other characteristics of the first coins manufactured in Mexico, as well as the mints from the periods of the War of Independence and Revolution, and the numismatic pieces with awards for their designs and beauty.
Become familiar with objects from other parts of the world which, due to their utilitarian value, were used as means of payment, the first coins minted in the East and West, and other samples from the ancient world.
Don’t miss the immersive experience in the vault, a multimedia show which will take you to the heart of trust.
The show in the vault takes place in an emblematic but reduced space, originally designed for the safekeeping of valuables. Its robust iron structure has been reconfigured to offer you this unique experience.
Access to the vault must be reserved online or at the Museum ticket window. Shows begin every 15 minutes.
To ensure the safety of our visitors, access is not permitted to carriages or wheelchairs.
Complement your experience with a visit to the temporary exhibits, the tunnel to the murals, interactive experiences and the museum store.
The artistic movement known as Art Deco was a global phenomenon that also incorporated regional features in its expressions. A magnificent example of this is the interior space of the Museo Banco de México. Get to know a little more about this manner of expressing and imagining through one of the most distinctive and evocative styles of the era in our Art Deco interactive experience.
In the Numismatic Laboratory interactive experience, you can explore the Banco de México numismatic collection. Become familiar with our exhibits of coins, medals, banknotes and other pieces or look for them by category.
Walk through the gold tunnel to get a view of the city and arrive at a space where the mural Geographies of Exchange in the City of Palaces is found, by the artist Luis Carlos Hurtado, created for this rest area in the museum’s mezzanine. The murals are a treatment of the dialogue between the concept of money as a tool which has accompanied and transformed the fate of societies, and the spatial concept of the Historic Center of Mexico City.
Complete your visit with a trip to the store, where you can find diverse objects related to the permanent and temporary exhibits, as well as numismatic products.
