Bank of Canada Museum

Start talking about money with your family during 🌍💸 #GlobalMoneyWeek2026. Money conversation cards feature questions to spark discussion about money and personal finance. See all the resources we have on offer. 👉 bit.ly/3OAqFm1 #GMW2026

💡#DYKT in 1935 the Bank issued unilingual bank notes?🪙 The French notes were distributed mostly in Quebec but it didn’t take long for them to make their way to the rest of Canada. #InternationalFrancophonieDay #FridayFunFact

🌍💸 #GlobalMoneyWeek2026 is about financial #education for kids. Help them understand their place in the economy with this animated online game: “Your Role in the Canadian Economy.” 👉 bit.ly/3OAqFm1 #GMW2026 @GlobalMoneyWeek

⏳ Closing soon! Don’t miss your chance to visit our two exhibits 🏛️ 🪙 Money That Almost Was 🖼️ The Greatest Stories Ever Told See them before they close! 🎟️ Free admission #ClosingSoon #LastChance

💰 It’s #GlobalMoneyWeek2026—the perfect time to introduce your little ones to handling cash! Download our hands-on activity “Counting Money and Making Change.” 👉 bit.ly/3OAqFm1 #GMW2026 @GlobalMoneyWeek

🎉❄️ Ontario #MarchBreak continues all week at the Museum! And it’s #FraudPreventionMonth.🛡️ Visit us and enjoy free, exciting, hands-on experiences—all to help your kids learn about our currency and how to spot counterfeits. Plan your visit. 👉 bit.ly/3khVksD #FPM2026

🌍💸 #GlobalMoneyWeek2026 starts today—raising awareness of financial literacy worldwide. Every week is money week for us with a full roster of economic lesson plans, activities and programs. Check ‘em out! 👉 bit.ly/3OAqFm1 #GMW2026 @GlobalMoneyWeek

🎉❄️ Ontario #MarchBreak starts today! It’s also #FraudPreventionMonth 🔍 And we’ll be open every day with heaps of activities, games and crafts to help your kids learn about bank note security and how to spot a counterfeit. 👉 bit.ly/3khVksD #MyOttawa #FPM2026

🎬✨ It’s #AcademyAwards Night! No link to Hollywood here—but our Collection has a few Oscars. Meet Oscar I, mid-19th century King of Sweden & Norway. This coin, a 2⁄3 skilling. Curious? It was worth 1 skilling of a currency being phased out called “riksgälds.”

🕵️‍♂️He was the greatest counterfeiter of his day, pursued relentlessly by Ontario’s first full-time police detective.🔎 He was Edwin Johnson—read about his unusual family business on the blog. 👉 bit.ly/3OzS47A #SundayReading #FPM2026

💸 Got change for a ten-trillion-mark note?😳 After the First World War, Germany faced heavy reparations. To meet domestic demand, the Weimar Republic printed more money —triggering hyperinflation. A 150-mark loaf of bread soon cost 200 billion marks. #SaturdayArtifact

🏴‍☠️ A pirate’s quarter?💰 “Pieces of 8” is the popular term for Spanish 8 reales coins. To make change, it was often cut into 4 sections. A quarter of it was called “2 bits,” which is still a nickname for US and Canadian 25¢ pieces. #FridayFunFact

🌸✂️ It’s #PlantAFlowerDay! OK, it’s a bit early, but your kids can grow their own paper flower while growing their savings. Make budgeting and saving fun with our at-home activity Growing Your Savings. 👉 bit.ly/3xMhiH8

🏦🎉 The @bankofcanada opened for business #OTD in 1935. 🎂 Happy 91st, Bank of Canada! Learn when, why and how the Bank came about with this video and discussion guide. 👉 bit.ly/3Z8NRuE

🎉❄️Ontario #MarchBreak is next week! And it’s #FraudPreventionMonth🛡️ We’re open daily with FREE activities, games, and crafts to help kids learn about bank note security and spotting counterfeits.🧐💡 Details 👉 bit.ly/3khVksD #MyOttawa #FPM2026

🦖💰 Can dinosaur bones be money? Good question. 🤔 #MoneyIn10Questions is on now at the Civic Centre Resource Library in Vaughan, Ontario. The most fun a kid will have while learning about personal finance. 👉 vaughanpl.info #KidsQuestions

🪙154 years of the Canadian cent, plus a thousand years of the penny’s roots. 🧠A penny’s worth of thoughts, on the blog. 👉 bit.ly/3VaLh7g #SundayReading

💰📣Money as advertising. Julius Caesar knew that, in his day, there was no better medium for advertising his power than coins. After crushing Gaul (France), he released coins featuring an elephant representing victorious Rome.🐘 #SaturdayArtifact

💰✨Representative money China was an agrarian society for most of its existence. Early uses of money resembled farming tools such as spades and knives to facilitate trade. Eventually tools were replaced with cash pieces. #FridayFunFact

🎨🌀 What’s guilloche?🤔 An old security feature—those “spirograph” designs you see on old bank notes. Kids can try it themselves with our guilloche activity. 👉 bit.ly/3Sogz8B #FPM2026