Temporary

The Banco de México Museum presents a diverse range of temporary exhibitions throughout the year. Below, we present information on the available exhibitions, as well as a memory of past exhibitions.

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

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

* Credits, from left to right:

Elisa Insua, Collective Objects II, from the artist's private collection.
Joseph Heathcott, Photo series Mexico City Street Markets, rendered satellite images, Google © 2009, from the artist's private collection.
Elisa Insua, Financial Volatility, 2022, from the artist's private collection.

Banco de México Museum: A New Story

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.

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.

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."

From September 24, 2022 to January 8, 2023.

Mezzanine

Markets from the Perspective of Contemporary Art

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.

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.

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.

Photo 2:

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, colección Saenger Galería.
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Exhibition memory

Flashes of the collection: 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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* Credits, from left to right:

Elisa Insua, Collective Objects II, from the artist's private collection.
Joseph Heathcott, Photo series Mexico City Street Markets, rendered satellite images, Google © 2009, from the artist's private collection.
Elisa Insua, Financial Volatility, 2022, from the artist's private collection.