Currency Museum

The Currency Museum is a perfect destination to visit if you want to learn a little or a lot about the history and evolution of Angolan currency. The museum is filled with old pieces that were once utilized in commercial trades, such as antique Angolan coins and current kwanza coins. It also features an enormous, incredibly precious, and heavy gold bar that visitors are allowed to touch and try to lift, which, given its weight, almost no one can do. Especially, because the museum is underground, the entrance cannot be seen as other buildings, however, if you go there to visit it, you will be able to view the entrance on the other side.

This museum is more than a building; it is an urban concept aimed at establishing public spaces that will enrich the city and embrace its residents. The city square becomes a celebration of public space as it welcomes visitors to the Currency Museum. The museum has physically engraved its name in stone, which can be seen from above and is within walking distance of the riverfront and the National Bank of Angola. The museum's entry is proclaimed by the stairs and the metallic parasols that produce shadow and urban scale, and the museum unveils itself in the uneven stereotomy generated by excavation, with its arrival announced by the steps and the metallic parasols that produce shadow and urban size. It has two permanent and temporary exhibition sections, as well as public spaces and an auditorium to promote learning activities.

Location: Luanda, Angola
Entrance fee: N/A
Best time to visit: between June and September (best time to visit Angola)
Hours: Tuesdays -Sundays: 9 am - 5 pm