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Numismatisch Museum van de Centrale Bank van Suriname

A money museum run by the Centrale Bank van Suriname in the bank's building in central Paramaribo, presenting coins, banknotes and medals used in Suriname past and present.

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  • history interest
  • rainy-day activity

The Numismatisch Museum is the Centrale Bank van Suriname's own money museum, founded on 8 April 2002 and housed in the bank building at Mr. F.H.R. Lim A Postraat 7 in the inner city. The collection traces barter, coinage and the monetary system in Suriname from the beginning to the present, and the bank also runs an information service, a photo gallery and guided tours around it.

It opens Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 14:00, and admission is free — which makes it one of the better wet-morning options within walking distance of the Waterkant. The museum's number is (597) 520016, or (597) 473741 extension 577.

A note on finding it online. The Centrale Bank's newer site serves its 404 page for the museum, including from the URL that circulates as the current one; the pages that actually work are the older ones under cbvs.sr/museum, and those are what this entry cites. If you are checking hours before you walk over, use those.

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Information on this page is sourced from Wikipedia (nl), Centrale Bank van Suriname.