Museo Casa de Moneda

The Museo Casa de Moneda (Spanish for Mint Museum) is a numismatics museum located in La Candelaria neighborhood of Bogotá, Colombia. It is managed by the Bank of the Republic of Colombia and used to display its numismatic collection that is composed by around 18,600 objects that include artwork, banknotes, bonds, coins, derivatives, medals, negotiable instruments, and printing instruments from various time periods and regions of the world.[1]

Museo Casa de Moneda
Street view of the museum
Interactive fullscreen map
EstablishedJuly 20, 1961 (July 20, 1961)
LocationCalle 11 # 4-93
Bogotá
Coordinates4°35′49″N 74°04′25″W
TypeNumismatics
Public transit accessMuseo del Oro station
Websitewww.banrepcultural.org/bogota/casa-de-moneda

The Museo Casa de Moneda is part of the Banrepcultural Network along with the Botero Museum, the Gold Museum, the Luis Ángel Arango Library, and the Miguel Urrutia Art Museum in Bogotá.[2]

History
1630 Double escudo ("pistole") of Felipe IV part of the collection

The museum stands where the New Kingdom of Granada established its first mint by orders of Philip III of Spain. It was the original location of the national mint having been founded in 1621 as the mint ("casa de moneda" translates as "mint") by spanish military engineer Alonso Turrillo de Yebra.[3]


With the purpose of presenting the history of Colombian currency, from the Colony to the Republican period, on July 20, 1961, the Bank of the Republic opened the doors of the Numismatic Museum on where it exhibited for the first time its extensive collection of coins and tickets. At that time the museum had 1,032 pieces, including 400 two-escudo gold Santa Fereña macuquinas, minted between 1628 and 1636, found in the Magdalena River and known as the Tesoro del mesuno.

On 11 July 1975, the Colombian Institute of Culture, now known as the Ministry of Culture by order of decree established that the edifice where the museum now stands was declared a National Treasure due to its historical value.[4]

and re-opened to the public on 23 July, 2023.

Collection
Antique machinery used for the production of banknotes and coins

The Museo Casa de Moneda in itself does not have a permanent collection, however it is adapted by the Banco de la República to display its numismatic collection as well as part of its art and pre-columbian archeology collections, borrowed from the Gold Museum, that include themes pertaining to currency and its history.

As of the latest renovation that concluded in August 2023, Museo Casa de Moneda is divided into 11 different exhibitions. The first exhibition, Casa de Moneda Santafé, covers the history of the first mints of the Spanish empire in the New World. The museum itself is located within the Santafé de Bogotá Mint building, which was established by Philip III of Spain in 1620 to coin gold and silver that circulated in the New Kingdom of Granada.[5]

The second exhibition, History of Currency, covers


The third exhibition, History of currency in the New Kingdom of Granada: the Habsburgs,

See also

References
  1. "Sala temporal 7A. Arte y moneda". Red Cultural del Banco de la República en Colombia. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  2. "About Banrepcultural". Red Cultural del Banco de la República en Colombia. Retrieved 29 August 2022. The cultural activity of Banco de la República extends as a network through 29 cities in the Colombian territory, and is carried out in the Gold Museum in Bogota, five Gold Museums in Armenia, Cali, Cartagena, Pasto and Santa Marta, the Ethnographic Museum in Leticia, the Luis Ángel Arango Library and the Casa Gómez Campuzano in Bogotá, the Library Network that extends through 28 Colombian cities, the Luis Ángel Arango Library Concert Hall, and Bogotá museums: Casa de Moneda, Botero Museum and, Miguel Urrutia Museum of Art (MAMU).
  3. (in Spanish) History of the Casa de Moneda Archived August 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  4. https://www.banrepcultural.org/bogota/casa-de-moneda/bienvenidos/historia
  5. "Sala 1. Casa de Moneda de Santafé". Red Cultural del Banco de la República en Colombia. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
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