Museum rooms

The building has a room on the ground floor for the main pieces of the Lovardo Collection and two auditoriums that surround the central hall, where different temporary exhibitions are held.

On the first floor there are six rooms that bring together the main pieces of the Museum’s collection that make up the history of Argentine money and the creation of the Central Bank.

Museum rooms

Mariano Lovardo Room | Treasures of the Sea

Room 1 | Native peoples and the colonial period

Mariano Lovardo Room | Treasures of the Sea

This collection covers a series of objects found in different shipwrecks that occurred between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, alluding to the rise and expansion of viceregal currency through maritime trade routes.

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Room 1 | Native peoples and the colonial period

The meeting of two very different worlds. With different beliefs, cultures and political, economic and social systems. The aborigines with their barter, and the Spanish conquistadors who established a monetary system with pieces minted in silver and gold.

In this space you can find:

– Material used to barter

– The macuquinas, handmade coins

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Room 2 | Independence and national organization

From 1810 to 1880: the first national coins, the provincial coinages and the first coins and banknotes of the banks that operated in the country during those years.

In this room you can see:

– The first national

currency- The first provincial banknotes

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Room 3 | Conservative Republic and the Twentieth Century

From 1872 to the end of the twentieth century: banknotes and coins in circulation in the country. Tokens and vouchers from shops or companies, which circulated as means of payment. Also on display are the gold coins of Tierra del Fuego, minted in 1889 by the Romanian engineer Julio Popper.

You can find in this room:

– The Golden Patacón

– The Half Currency of Paraguay

– The $1,000,000 bill

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Room 4 | Argentine money today

In this room you will be able to learn more about how money is manufactured in our country so that the Argentine currency is safe, reliable and maintains its value.

During your visit you will be able to observe:

– Current banknotes and coins. Families.

-The process of destruction.

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Room 5 | Financial institutions predecessors of the Central Bank

In this room you will be able to learn more about how money is manufactured in our country so that the Argentine currency is safe, reliable and maintains its value.

During your visit you will be able to observe:

– Current banknotes and coins. Families.

-The process of destruction.

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Room 6 | Central Bank of the Argentine Republic

From its creation in 1935 to the present day, this room traces the history of the Central Bank, the biography of the first authorities and the architectural and cultural heritage of the organization.

You can also find different collector’s coins in this space.

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Ground floor

First floor