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We offer a wide array of temporary exhibits throughout the year. Please find below information on current exhibits as well as descriptions of past exhibits.

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30 years of central bank autonomy. The cornerstone of our institutional strength. Collection Highlights

Commemorating the 30th anniversary of Banco de México’s autonomy, we have arranged an exhibition of the central bank's work, as seen through the pieces of the numismatic collection. The display delves into the bank’s history, advancements, and innovations achieved as an autonomous entity. This autonomy has allowed Banco de México to fulfill its main objective of effectively preserving the value of the national currency along with its mission of providing Mexico’s economy with currency.

This exhibition features a selection of numismatic pieces that have accompanied Banco de México throughout its 30 years of autonomy, which has allowed it to consolidate its institutional strength and contribute to your welfare, that of your family, and society at large.

From March 26 to May 26, 2024
Hall 3. Banco de México
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Payments on the Go. The SPEI® Revolution

This temporary exhibit commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Interbank Electronic Payment System (SPEI®), an innovation pioneered by Banco de México that has transformed the way we make payments, offering efficiency, speed, and security in a digitalized world.

From the complex processes of bank deposits to the speed of current electronic transfers, the evolution of payment systems has closely followed the development of communication infrastructures.

From April 26 to July 21, 2024
Mezzanine
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200 years of the Mexican eagle’s silhouette. Collection Highlights

Discover how the eagle was depicted in colonial codices of the 16th century and how it was reimagined throughout the various stages of Mexico’s history in numismatic iconography, reflecting the nation's identity.

Until March 24, 2024
Hall 3. Banco de México
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Angles and Perspectives

As part of the sixth edition of the program ART| BANKNOTES | SHREDDED BANKNOTES | TRIMMINGS, the exhibition features the work of 44 Mexican visual artists or resident visual artists in our country, who explore the non-sculptural tridimensionality through art-object boxes that incorporate shredded banknotes and trimmings, materials that have infused the program with vitality and given it permanence, and which originate from the destruction of paper money.

The exhibition reveals the artists' particular interests and explorations, creating a varied narrative repertoire. The images are deeply emotional and touch on themes that connect us all, such as the universe, reflections on humanity, the human body, childhood, gender dynamics, memory, as well as the complexity of contemporary society.

From December 8, 2023 to March 31, 2024
Mezzanine
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Architectural integration: the origin of the main building

Banco de México holds a central place in Mexico’s architectural heritage, particularly its main building. This exhibition offers a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of this iconic building, highlighting its capacity to adapt and endure over time in response to the needs and visions of its users and designers.

Through a combination of historical resources and contemporary testimonials, the public is invited to explore the diverse layers of meaning and legacy that define this remarkable piece of Mexican architectural heritage.

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From November 4, 2023 to February 25, 2024
Mezzanine
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30 years of the new Mexican pesos. An inclusive change. Collection Highlights

On June 22, 1992, a new monetary unit of the Mexican monetary system was introduced with the purpose to reduce the number of figures in the national currency, facilitate its understanding and handling, streamline financial transactions, and enhance the efficiency of computer systems.

The newly established monetary unit was denoted by the term 'nuevos pesos' and represented by the symbol 'N$'. A strong advertising campaign was conducted at the time to convey its practical attributes to society.

In this commemorative exhibit, you will have the opportunity to see the coins and banknotes that were part of this transformation. You will also find historical materials used in the advertising campaign as part of its transition, including brochures and radio commercials.

From September 19 to November, 2023
Hall 3. Banco de México
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Cardboards of San Miguel el Grande. Collection highlights.

One of the first attempts to issue paper money in Mexico took place 210 years ago in the town know today as San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, when between July and August the authorities designed titles in cardboard pieces with a value of half a real.

In this commemorative exhibition you will appreciate the issued Cardboards of San Miguel el Grande, as well as other numismatic pieces that were used as money of necessity; that is, coins that satisfied the demand for cash when the official coinage was unable to meet it.

From July 19 to August 31, 2023
Hall 3. Banco de México
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Coyolxauhqui imaginary

The exhibition revisits the notion of duality and cyclicality inherent to the myth of Coyolxauhqui, linking it with the concepts of transformation and reconstruction, thus creating a social imaginary that is reflected in three different sections that explore the cultural identity, the resonance of the lunar goddess on people’s lives nowadays, and her power as a symbol of healing.

Composed of pieces created by 10 national artists, as well as by a selection of objects from the 70s, 80s and 90s.

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From June 30 to October 1, 2023.
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Collection Highlights. Marine biodiversity in numismatics

As part of the 50th anniversary of the World Environment Day, this exhibition features numismatic pieces from different parts of the world, representing marine and coastal fauna, to celebrate the biodiversity of these ecosystems and to reflect on the environmental measures necessary to guarantee their conservation.

The environmental stability of the habitats that make up our planet is crucial for the species that cohabit it to prosper in the future.

Coins and banknotes are symbols that showcase historical, cultural and natural landmarks. Through them, several countries grant recognition to the heritage that defines them.

From May 11 to July 09, 2023
Hall 3 Banco de México
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UNFOLDINGS: ART I BANKNOTES I SHREDDED BANKNOTES I SHAVINGS I DESIGN

Visit the new temporary exhibit UNFOLDINGS: ART I BANKNOTES I SHREDDED BANKNOTES I SHAVINGS I DESIGN, which focuses on the importance of environmental, cultural and social sustainability.

The exhibit is from the fifth edition of the program ART I BANKNOTES I SHREDDED BANKNOTES I SHAVINGS I DESIGN, which relies on the participation of both domestic and international artists. It is comprised of 45 artworks made out of shredded banknotes and shavings.

The pieces were made in a screen format, with three nuclear themes: the organic, anthropological and graphic.

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From March 31 to July 23, 2023.
Mezzanine
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Collection Highlights. Suffragists: 70 years of women’s voting rights in Mexico

This exhibit pays homage to women who worked for equal rights as well as those who worked for voting rights and have been immortalized on the banknotes of various countries around the world. Visit us to get to know these numismatic pieces in the Museo Banco de México.

The central figure is one of the most outstanding revolutionary feminists in Mexico: Hermila Galindo, depicted on the 1000-peso banknote in the G banknote family issued by Banco de México. In addition to this piece, international banknotes are shown with compositions that integrate portraits of famous suffragists such as Catalina Helen Spencer (Australia), Kate Sheppard (New Zealand), Josefa Llanes Escoda (the Philippines) and Eva Duarte de Perón (Argentina).

From March 08 to April 28, 2023.
Hall 3 Banco de México
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Banco de México Museum: A New Story

A year ago, on September 24, the Banco de México Museum was inaugurated. We have written the story of our first year together with all our visitors, as a space that reconnects the public with their central bank, in a way that is interactive and dynamic.

The Museum is celebrating its first anniversary with this temporary exhibition focused on the Banco de México Museum commemorative medal, including an iconographic analysis of the medal and a review of the history and functions of the main vault, an architectural feature that was become the Museum’s icon in the aim of transmitting one of our most important messages; Banco de México is your central bank.

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From September 24, 2022 to January 8, 2023.
Mezzanine
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Markets from the perspective of contemporary art

The Banco de México Museum presents the exhibit Markets from the Perspective of Contemporary Art, a collective sampling of works that invites us to reflect on the concept of markets as a space for the economic, social and cultural encounters in which we continually interact.

In this exhibit, the Banco de México Museum establishes bridges between the central bank, artists and society. The curation includes 39 works of art in the aim of allowing visitors to perceive through sensory and reflective experience how they are linked to the ecosystem of the markets, from the most immediate contexts in physical and local markets, to global financial markets.

We invite visitors to connect with the various concepts present in any type of market, such as supply, demand and prices, as well as discover the impact of our decisions on the conformation of markets and how these make themselves felt in our daily lives.

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From August 12, 2022 to February 12, 2023.
Mezzanine


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Visit the new temporary exhibit UNFOLDINGS: ART I BANKNOTES I SHREDDED BANKNOTES I SHAVINGS I DESIGN, which focuses on the importance of environmental, cultural and social sustainability.

The exhibit is from the fifth edition of the program ART I BANKNOTES I SHREDDED BANKNOTES I SHAVINGS I DESIGN, which relies on the participation of both domestic and international artists. It is comprised of 45 artworks made out of shredded banknotes and shavings.

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The pieces were made in a screen format, with three nuclear themes: the organic, anthropological and graphic.

Organic

The pieces in this nucleus show organic structures that surround our ecosystems and make themselves felt through compositional features that allude to various landscapes, flora and fauna, portraying the transcendence natural elements have in our lives, as well as our interdependence with them.

Anthropological

Throughout history, humans have left imprints reflecting their anthropological configuration, i.e., signs of their origins and transformations in the face of the challenges posed by environments over time and space. In this context, this nucleus presents elements related to customs and traditions, the construction of identity and the social processes that conform our history.

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The third nucleus focuses on the constructions and representations of the social context which arise from the dynamics that model our environment and form us as independent individuals, capable of impacting the collective body, as well as elements such as traces of urban pre-Hispanic inheritance, the deconstruction and conformation of new landscapes, and travel through psycho cartographies.

This temporary exhibit has tools that support accessibility and is accompanied by a program open to the public, including dialogues, activations, family activities, and the presentation of the catalogue.

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From March 31 to July 23, 2023
Mezzanine
Banco de México Museum: A New Story
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Marking the Banco de México Museum's first anniversary is the temporary exhibition Banco de México Museum: A New Story, focused on the commemorative medal imprinted with the Museum's logo, which identifies graphically this space which seeks to establish links and reinforce trust and connection with Mexican society by exhibiting the numismatic collection, Banco de México's functions, and the architectural riches of its main building. The door of the Bank's vault, the Museum's icon, is represented on the medal.

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Commemorative Numismatics: The Banco de México Museum Medal

As part of the inauguration of the Banco de México Museum, a commemorative medal was produced, on the front of which you can see the door of the main vault, while on the back you observe a representation of its security mechanism.

The first thematic nucleus of the exhibition is focused on an iconographic analysis of the Banco de México Museum medal, in which the key axes of the Museum are brought together, reflecting the institutional solidity and trust that the vault's structure transmits: the architectural gem that the building is, represented by one of its most noteworthy features, and the numismatic collection, of which these medals now form a part.

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Stored Memories: Uses of the Vault Across Time

In this second thematic nucleus, almost 100 years after the manufacture of the Banco de México main vault, you can see exhibited the functions and story the vault has contained, acting as a symbol both of institutional solidity and strength and Banco de México´s nearness and commitment to society, as it works every day to reaffirm the trust society places in it.

The vault's functions have varied over the years and now form a key part of the Banco de México Museum experience, given the vault's special mission of communicating the most valuable asset with which Banco de México operates on a daily basis: the trust of the Mexican people.

This is transmitted in the immersive experience Journey to the Center of Trust, in which, from the heart of the central bank, the story is told of how trust has been key to economic exchange and the circulation of money throughout time and all over the world.

"From here, we glimpse the possibilities that we can only build together."

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From September 24, 2022 to January 8, 2023.
Mezzanine
Markets from the Perspective of Contemporary Art
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The curation includes 39 works of art that invite visitors to reflect on the concept of the market, from the most immediate contexts in physical and local markets, to global financial markets.

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Markets

We invite visitors to connect with the various concepts present in any type of market, such as supply, demand and prices, as well as market typologies.

The exhibit opened August 12, 2022, with the participation of 10 domestic and international artists who have been recognized for various contemporary artistic practices, in an interesting variety of plastic and audiovisual platforms for their work, from painting and sculpture, to installations, digital art, and multimedia immersion experience.

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The Banco de México Museum would like to thank all those involved in this project, whose generous collaboration made it possible to present the exhibit Markets from the Perspective of Contemporary Art. The Changarrito Archive Collection project, founder Máximo González, collaborators Iván Buenader and María Juliana González, the Cherem Zaga family collection, the Alterna Gallery, the Marcelo Podestá collection, the Charpenel Guadalajara collection, the Mexico City Parallel Project Gallery, the Saenger Gallery, the University of Contemporary Art Museum.

Participating artists:

Alejandro Gómez Arias, Alicia Herrero, Antonio Isaac Gómez, Cecilia Barreto, Eduardo Abaroa, Elisa Insua, Federico Martínez Montoya, Joseph Heathcott, Máximo González, Melanie Smith.

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From August 12, 2022 to February 12, 2023.
Mezzanine


* Credits for accompanying images, from left to right and in order of appearance:

Photo 1:

Alicia Herrero, Concentration Structures, 2019, from the artist's private collection.
Cecilia Barreto Aguilar, Is never enough 002, 2016, Saenger Gallery collection.

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Antonio Isaac, Stochastic Beauty photo series, 2022, from the artist's private collection.
Cecilia Barreto Aguilar, Untitled, 2017. Alterna Gallery, Cherem Zaga family collection.
Alejandro Gómez Arias, Golden Calf (Purple), 2021, from the artist's private collection.

Photo 3:

Máximo González, Changarrito, 2004, from the private archive Project Changarrito.
Founder, Máximo González.
Collaborators, Iván Buenader and María Juliana González.

Photo 4:

Cecilia Barreto Aguilar, Is never enough 25, 2016, Saenger Gallery collection.
Cecilia Barreto Aguilar, Everybody knows 0, 2020, Saenger Gallery collection.

Past Exhibitions

Collection Highlights: Soccer World Cup Mexico, 1986

In order to highlight events that are part of our national and international history, the Bank of Mexico issued in 1986 a series of commemorative coins alluding to the XIII Soccer World Championship, held in our country.

Minted in silver and gold, the designs of these numismatic pieces, made by Casa de Moneda de México, contain iconographic elements alluding to this sporting event.

Come and see part of this series of coins in the numismatic exhibition that we have at the Banco de México Museum with the intention of honoring the most popular sport in our country and joining the world soccer party.

From November 18, 2022 to December 18, 2022.
Hall Banco de México

Poetics pictured from a distance: ART/BANKNOTES/SHREDDED BANKNOTES/SHAVINGS/DESIGN

In the aim of connecting the visitor to Banco de México’s cultural efforts and highlighting the relationship between financial education and national and international history and culture, we inaugurate the exhibit Poetics pictured from a distance at the Banco de México Museum, comprised of 41 works by visual artists participating in the fourth edition of the program ART/BANKNOTES/SHREDDED BANKNOTES/SHAVINGS/DESIGN 2020.

Begun in 2017 and coordinated by the Directorate of Financial Education and Cultural Affairs, the program consists of an invitation to recognized artists to create pieces of art out of shavings and shredded banknotes, scraps obtained from cuttings and fragments of banknotes with printing defects caused during the manufacturing process.



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