The Money Museum

august 7 2007

One of the most favorite trips of the children is a museum that was called the Coin Museum and now is called the Money Museum.

They begged and begged to go there again this vacation and today Jim took them with him to work and dropped them of in the afternoon at the museum.

The museum is housed in one of the monumental buildings. Entering it created a feeling of being rich and famous.
The building is the best place they could have choosen to educate people about money and it's cultural aspects.
At 1911 the Dutch coins were made at that place.


Utrecht has been the place where they made our Dutch money for a long time.
At the end of the nineteenth century it happened at the Oude Gracht in the centre of the city.
It's now the central place for people who want to shop and sit down to drink and eat something.

At the beginning of the twentieth century the building couldn't house the industry anymore.
The Coinmaster Van den Wall Bake wanted a building situated at one of the best canals, and it needed to have enough space for future expansion.
They found a place on the gorunds of the former beetrootsugarfactory at the Merwede Kanaal and the Leidse Rijn.
The building was finished in 1911, and ever since the Dutch coins are made there.

Between 2005 and 2007 it was restaurised and parts were rebuilt in the former style.
Now it still houses the coinfactory. The museum is added.

It's not only a museum to look around, it's also a museum that gives children the opportunity to make their own fake money and do a lot of other things.

When the girls came there it was like children had taken over the complete museum.
Probably because it's free for children from 0 to 17.

The girls had their photos taken and they were embedded in fake bills of 1.000.000. LOL!

Upstairs I have a little box with lots of coins they made there.
And now papermoney is added.

And the memory of the bright smiles of both little ladies.