Museum of the Banco de Portugal

The permanent exhibition of the Museum of the Banco de Portugal, entitled "Money in the West of the Iberian Peninsula: From the objects used as money to the euro", presents "money" in its different forms, reflecting the historical, social, economic and artistic evolution of the Portuguese society and of the peoples who lived in the Western region of the Iberian Peninsula before the foundation of Portugal.



The exhibition is supported by several multimedia products available to visitors:

• A video, specially prepared for the exhibition, on the "Short History of Money". 8 minutes. Introduces the visitor to the evolution of money, its meaning and types, from the pre-history to our days;
• Videos with images collected at the Portuguese Cinemateca and at the Picture Library of the public TV channel, showing important events of the recent history;
• An on-line data base, operated in an Intranet environment, in which it is possible to have access to references and images of pieces belonging to the collections of the Museum - coins, banknotes, portraits of personalities of the Portuguese history, paintings and objects related to the activity of the Banco de Portugal.