The Money Museum offers a distinctly interactive experience that draws on multimedia technology to display its collection. Its unconventional museography is aimed at creating an alluring environment that ensures visitor participation and promotes knowledge building.
The Money Museum is organised into nine thematic rooms that showcase the Banco de Portugal’s numismatic collection and other objects, enhanced by multimedia experiences to engage visitors.
The themes range from pre-monetary conventions, money in Portugal and around the world throughout the centuries, manufacturing coins and banknotes, the role of money in our lives and the tasks of the central bank.
TOUCH / What is Money?
At the Museum's reception area, a passage from a text by Charles Dickens poses the question confronting the public throughout the visit: 'What is money?'
In this room, the gold bar (touch-accessible) is framed by the door of the former gold vault, and is in stark contrast with the "inhumane" picture of the Brazilian goldmines projected onto a large-scale screen.