Currency Museum is located at Mirpur beside Bangladesh Bank Training Academy. This project is taken regarding the enlargement of the currency museum into money museum. The country's eminent artists, architects and historians have worked together for the museum along with the central bank to make it launch.
Museum authority has collected local and foreign coins and banknotes in different ways to enrich this museum. The museum has now thousands of coins and notes from the Pala, Sena, Gupta, Sultani, Mughal and British periods.
About 2500 coins and notes found in Wari-Bateshwar of Narsingdi will be reserved in this Museum. Bangladesh Numismatic Collectors' Society handed over 100 coins of different eras to the Currency Museum of Bangladesh Bank.
The historically significant deposited coins included 48 of the Alauddin Hossain Shah era, 29 of Nasiruddin Nusrat Shah, four of Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah, five of Sikandar Shah, three of Giasuddin Azam Shah, three of Rukunuddin Barbak Shah, two of Nasiruddin Mahmud, one of Mahmud Shah, one of Shahjahan, two of Badsha Alamgir , one of Islam Shah and one of the Shah Alam era.
A museum, first of its kind in Bangladesh, will help young people to know about the currency's history and its evolution. Not only the history of Money, this museum will also help people to get acquainted with the lifestyle, education, culture and various aspects of the archaeological evolution of human civilization through coins and currencies of different eras.
It showcases coins and banknotes, which are witnesses to history, to uphold the history and heritage before the present and future generations.
Efforts are already on to collect old coins and install digital signage, touch screens, LCD monitors etc to equip the 'Taka Museum' into a modern, prosperous, state of the art, rich in information and technology-based museum.It has been established with modern technology to attract visitors.
You can come to see this Museum from different locations of Dhaka City. There are so many buses moving towards Mirpur-2. It's few kilometer south-west from Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium.
You can take buses from Syedabad bus stand or Mohakhali bus stand or Farmgate bus stand to visit this Unique Museum of Bangladesh.
Thursday is the holiday of the museum. It will open for visitors from Saturday to Wednesday from 11am to 5pm. On Friday it will open for visitors from 4pm to 7pm. No entry fee is required to visit the museum.
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