All over
the world, museums are common, but currency museum is rare. The Central Bank of
Nigeria established the currency museum. The Central Bank currency museum was commissioned
on the 5th of May 2009 as part of the festivities to mark the 50th
Anniversary of Central Bank.
If you
review the nation's currency transition, since the days of commodity exchange
(trade by batter) to cowries and to the present day Naira notes. I often wonder
and ask, what is the informed mission to change the nature of their currency?
Was it more of crucial importance?
The need
for a currency museum is further emphasized by the need for preservation of
history, it also encourages anybody to see an identity of a country. When you
pick up a currency, it depicts the general culture, lifestyle, religion and
sometimes the tribes that exist in the country. More or less, a currency is
like an identification guide of a nation. The currency museum is trying to
preserve the history which will serve not only as a tourist site for foreigners
but as learning tools to younger ones. This history will be learned and transferred
for future mankind. For financial integrity to be preserved for the youths and
the adults as well as future generation yet unborn
The Nigerian
currency museum is located in the main complex of the Central Bank building in
Abuja. Therefore it is very accessible for visitors from home and abroad. The
Nigerian currency museum can be a place of excursion from schools and
universities, as well as site for tourist. Will you want to visit the Nigerian
Currency Museum? Just give 2 or 3 days notice to the director of currency
operation department or the office of the director, corporate affairs of the
bank. Once that is done, the request is processed and you will be contacted
Items in
the Central Bank currency Museum seem to be more hilarious, they were used as
forms of currencies then. Like the gin bottles, the hose, the manilas, the cowries
seems to be worthless now were of immense value in those pre-currency eras.
The
currency museum is open for all of us to go there. It is like casting our mind
back to history and with that, I am sure the present and future generation will
know the currencies that were used in day-to-day transaction in their country. Have
a cause today to get to the museum and know more about your history and then
know how to face your future even better.
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