Shanghai Banking Museum

China Banking Museum opened in 2004 in Shanghai, the country’s financial capital. But the collection was so huge that the search is still underway for a sufficiently spacious room that can accommodate all the expositions. Today, only 20,000 exhibits are available to the public in the exhibition hall, which is the tenth part of the museum’s collection. Here are collected the most vivid and interesting materials telling about the financial history of the country. Here you can see the first coins of China and the first European banknotes, photo documents of the beginning of the last century, illustrating scenes from everyday banking life. There is even a small museum of wax figures. The jewel of the museum is a unique banknote worth 6 billion yuan.