A historic monument, the Palace of the National Bank of Romania was built between 1884 and 1890. The designers were architects Cassien Bernard and Albert Galeron; builders: architects N. Cerchez and E. Baicoianu. The building was restored between 1992 and 1994. The Board of the Bank decided in 1914 to organize the museum. The action started in 1933 and the first exhibition was organized in 1943. It reopened in 1949 in the Rosenthal block on the Calea Victoriei. In the autumn of 1952 the ground floor of the old bank palace was arranged for the exhibition. In January 1953 the museum stock was moved to the Romanian Academy. The museum was reorganized and inaugurated on the 3rd of May 1997. It c...ontains the numismatic collection of the National Bank of Romania; other pieces of great importance; the collection "Portraits of Governors". The museum owns goods listed in the National Cultural Heritage Treasure.
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