📣The Museum will be closed this Saturday and Sunday. But we are open Monday 10:00 am. 😊 Please see our website to plan your visit and learn all our opening hours. 👉 bit.ly/3TJrwCz

💰⚖️Big change. Coins used to be worth the value of the metal they were made of. Sweden had little silver, so it minted its coins from less valuable copper. Their high-value coins were the size of dinner plates. 🍽️ #FridayFunFact

🐚🌍The well-travelled mollusc. As currency, cowry shells were a great success. They were durable, portable, universally recognizable, nearly impossible to counterfeit and remained a viable trading tool for thousands of years. #SaturdayArtifact

📣The Museum is closed today and Sunday. But we are open Monday and at 10:00.😊 Please see our website to plan your visit and learn all our opening hours. 👉 bit.ly/3TJrwCz

#DYKT Winnipeg was the location of a mock invasion in 1942? What? Winnipeg? 😲 Actually, it was a war bond promotion, but a very realistic one. Read all about this extraordinary event, on the blog. 👉 bit.ly/3HdzBtp #SundayReading

📚🍎Teachers, it’s the LAST week of Financial Literacy Month. We have lots of activities and lessons for you and your class to enjoy (and learn from!), enhancing this significant part of your curriculum. See our website 👉 bit.ly/4nZoKHv #FLM2025 #TalkMoney

🎭 Your kids will enjoy our paper puppet activity, but it comes with a catch. The kids need to create a budget to “buy” their puppet parts. At the Museum, every weekend in November. 👉 bit.ly/4nZoKHv #FLM2025 #TalkMoney

Know a great #teacher🍎 of economics? Nominate them for our Award for Excellence in Teaching Economics. Win classroom resources, prizes and $1000 each for the lucky winner and their school. Visit our website for details. 👉  bit.ly/3Xrx9Gs #ThankYouTeachers

💬💰Start a conversation about money with your family. Download printable Money Conversation Cards, and spark discussion with questions that are sometimes serious, often fun but always thoughtful. See our website 👉 bit.ly/48YbL46 #FLM2025 #TalkMoney

📅 This #weekend: Sensory Sunday. We’re turning down the lights🔅 and the volume🔉. 😌 A calm and quiet visit for sensory-sensitive visitors. 👉Learn more: bit.ly/3kg5lGP #AutismAwareness

🪙👑Deities inspire confidence. If you’re a ruler trying to create confidence in your currency, you put your head on it, right? Not necessarily. You might go straight to the top and put a goddess on it—such as Athena on this Ancient Greek coin. #FridayFunFact

Phillip II of Spain was called “Phillip the Prudent” for his public and political innovations. However, he defaulted on his debts four times! One of his economic strategies was to devalue his currency, which began #OTD in 1596. #SaturdayArtifact

🎉🏛️Pop into the Museum this weekend for fun, family, financial activities… Puppet building market, paper piggy banks, a grow your savings plan and more. Be ready to tape, glue, colour and learn. 👉 bit.ly/4nZoKHv #FLM2025 #TalkMoney

📚💴This is “bookmark money,” or hansatsu in Japanese. Gods of wealth, bags of rice, denominated in coal or even umbrellas: read about this interesting Japanese currency—on the blog. 👉 bit.ly/48LWEL9 #SundayReading

📅 #Today is Sensory Sunday. 🕘From 9:00 am until noon, we are providing a dimmer, quieter environment. 🎧🕶️New: pick up a sensory kit from our reception. 👉 bit.ly/3kg5lGP #AutismAwareness

📢 #MoneyInTenQuestions closes after tomorrow at the Western Development Museum, North Battleford, SK. It’s the most fun you and your kids will have learning about money and personal finance. ⏳Last chance, hurry! 👉 bit.ly/44lg31x WDM (Western Development Museum) 🇨🇦

👋We believe every visitor should feel empowered to enjoy our museum. If you have special needs or accessibility concerns, please visit our Special Needs page. 👉 bit.ly/3H982C2 #InternationalDayOfPersonsWithDisabilities

🌍 #WorldSoilDay raises awareness of the critical importance of healthy soil to humankind. This note’s image of harvest was a common subject on old notes, illustrating the importance of bountiful farmland to the young Canada. #FridayFunFact

#OTD in 1917, telegraph operator Vincent Coleman warned an approaching passenger train that a munitions ship was on fire in Halifax harbour. He saved nearly 300 lives but died ten minutes later. This note’s image represents telegraphy. #SaturdayArtifact

👑The abdication of the UK’s King Edward VIII created a lot of complications—not the least of which was for the mints that had to scramble to issue new coins for 1936. It’s an interesting story. See the blog. 👉 bit.ly/4eidsJl #SundayReading