The Museum of Money of the National Bank of Ukraine is a museum institution, the exposition of which tells about money circulation in Ukrainian lands from ancient times to the present. Officially opened on March 24, 2004 on the basis of materials of the Museum of the Ukrainian Office of the State Bank of the USSR. The museum collection (items of numismatics and bonistics) reflects the monetary circulation in the territory of Ukraine from ancient times to the present. The museum is located in the building of the National Bank of Ukraine in Kiev.

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The decision to establish the Museum of Money was made at the end of 1988. The basis of the collection was the exhibits of the Museum of the Ukrainian Office of the State Bank of the USSR, which was created in 1981.

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According to the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 1766 dated November 29, 2000 [Archived August 18, 2016 at the Wayback Machine.] The NBU Money Museum is included in the list of museums whose collections and museum objects are state property and belong to the state part of the museum fund of Ukraine.

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The Museum of Money of the National Bank of Ukraine was officially opened on March 24, 2004. This event was timed to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the printing of the first banknotes of independent Ukraine at its own Banknote Factory.

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The museum was opened by the then Chairman of the National Bank S. L. Tihipko, he was also a participant of the first excursion together with the students of the 10-B class of the Kiev Lyceum No. 51.

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The exposition of the museum is built according to the chronological principle — starting from primitive commodity-money and ending with the national monetary unit of modern Ukraine — the hryvnia. The museum's materials reflect more than a thousand-year history of hryvnia and other banknotes that were in circulation at different times on the territory of Ukraine.

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The Museum of Money presents (in originals and mascots):

• coins of the Greek polices of the Northern Black Sea;
• coins of the Roman Empire I—III centuries AD.
• coins of the heyday of trade with the countries of the East and Byzantium—dirhams of the Arab Caliphate and the militia of the Byzantine Empire;
• the first coins of Kievan Rus — zlatki and silversmiths;
• silver bullion of Kievan Rus of the so-called “coinless period”;
• coins of Western Europe XV—XVII centuries,
• pennies of the Moscow Empire and metal and paper money of the Russian Empire;
• money from the time of the Ukrainian People's Republic 1917—1920. ;
• Soviet rubles and coupon-minted coins of the first years of independence of Ukraine;
• Hryvnia of independent Ukraine 1996—2016;
• a complete collection of commemorative and commemorative coins of Ukraine;
• Exposure of monetary units of many countries of the world.

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The bright, colorful stained glass windows of the museum illustrate the most important milestones in the history of Ukraine, which are displayed on the stands and in the showcases with numismatic material. These are, in particular, domonet forms of money (Bronze Age and Trypillian culture), money of the period of Kievan Rus, Cossack era, Ukrainian People's Republic 1917 — 1920 and modern Ukraine.

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