Monetary Museum, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies

This museum was built to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bank of Japan's founding. Money from Japan and overseas are on display.

The core of the museum's collection is the Zenikan collection collected by Keibun Tanaka (1884-1956), an old money collector and researcher. Mr. Tanaka collected not only money from ancient times to modern times in Japan, but also various materials related to East Asian currency, mainly China, and currency. The museum where these materials were exhibited and stored was the Zenikan, and in 1944, the collected materials were donated to the Bank of Japan to avoid loss caused by the war.

The Currency Museum opened in November 1985 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bank of Japan's founding (1982) to publish these materials. After that, it was reopened in November 2015. I hope that seeing the money itself, related materials, and research results will give you a chance to think about the history and role of money, and the relationship between money and culture and society.