China Numismatic Museum, Currency museum in Xichang'anjie Subdistrict, China

The China Numismatic Museum occupies two former bank buildings at 17 Xijiaomin Xiang: the Commercial Guarantee Bank of China and the Central Bank of China Peking Branch. Its galleries hold over 300,000 numismatic objects. The main display, the Chinese Currency through the Ages exhibition, fills the second and third floors, while the ancient coin-casting technology exhibition is on the ground floor.

The China Numismatic Museum opened in 1992, ten years after the China Numismatic Society was founded in 1982. It occupies two former bank buildings: the Commercial Guarantee Bank of China and the Central Bank of China Peking Branch. In 2002 the new museum building, housed in the former Commercial Guarantee Bank, was completed and its permanent exhibitions were installed.

The exhibits trace how Chinese payment methods evolved across different regions and time periods, from hand-cast coins to printed banknotes. Visitors can observe how distinct dynasties and eras shaped their own monetary designs and production methods.

The museum occupies two former bank buildings on Xijiaomin Xiang, a lane just west of Tian'anmen Square, with the main galleries in the former Commercial Guarantee Bank of China. The permanent displays are arranged by floor: coin-casting technology in the ground-floor hall, ancient and modern Chinese currency on the second and third floors, and the People's Bank of China history exhibition in a hall-style building in the courtyard. The Beijing Fangquanzhai coin service, a shop for collectors, moved to the former Central Bank of China Peking Branch at no. 17.

The museum houses the secretariat of the China Numismatic Society, which produces scholarly publications and manages the journal China Numismatics. This active research unit makes it more than a display space and connects it to ongoing academic work on monetary systems.