Bangladesh Bank Taka Museum, Currency museum in Bangladesh
The Bangladesh Bank Taka Museum is a numismatic museum in the Mirpur area of Dhaka, housing coins and banknotes that range from ancient times to the present-day republic. The collection spans several gallery rooms and covers currency from Bengal, the broader Indian subcontinent, and other parts of the world.
The museum opened in 2009 inside the Bangladesh Bank headquarters and moved to its current building in Mirpur in 2013. The move gave the growing collection the space it needed to be arranged into dedicated galleries.
The coins and banknotes on display carry portraits, scripts, and symbols that show how rulers and governments chose to represent themselves to ordinary people. The designs on the Bengali sultanate coins are especially telling, as they reflect the visual language of a period that shaped the region deeply.
The museum sits near the Bangladesh Bank Training Academy in Mirpur and can be reached by public transport from central Dhaka. Opening hours vary by day of the week, so checking before you go saves time.
Among the pieces on display is a rare Dolphin Coin from ancient Olbia, a Greek colony on the Black Sea coast, over 2000 years old. The collection also holds several thousand artifacts recovered from an archaeological site in Narsingdi, pointing to trade routes that passed through Bengal long before modern borders existed.
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