Exhibitions

The Royal Mint collection may not be open to members of the public but we are always looking for ways of making its contents more accessible. By arranging exhibitions, or by contributing to the exhibitions of other organisations, we ensure that items from the collection are seen and enjoyed by thousands of people every year.

Since the 1980s the Royal Mint, usually in partnership with other museums, has organised a number of exhibitions:

  • The Royal Mint: 1100 Years in Minting, 1986
  • Isaac Newton at the Royal Mint 1696-1727 (Bank of England Museum), 1992
  • A Tercentenary Tribute: The Bank of England Commemorative £2 Coin (Bank of England Museum), 1994
  • All Change: 25th Anniversary of Decimal Currency in Britain (Bank of England Museum), 1996
  • The Colour of Money: The development, design and minting of the new £2 coin (Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery), 1997
  • Towards A Single Currency: Using other people's money (National Museum Wales), 1999
  • The Sterling Pound (Bank of England Museum), 1999
  • Hands on History (Tower of London), 2007-
  • Designing Change: Coins of Elizabeth II (British Museum), 2008-09.

 

Items from the Royal Mint collection are frequently loaned out for temporary exhibitions. In the last few years alone, such items have been displayed in museums and institutions all over the country:

  • Bank of England Museum
  • Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
  • Goldsmiths' Hall
  • Guildhall Art Gallery
  • Museum of London
  • National Maritime Museum
  • National Museum Wales
  • Pallant House Gallery
  • Sir John Soane's Museum
  • The Ashmolean Museum
  • The British Museum
  • The British Postal Museum & Archive
  • The Manchester Museum
  • Tower of London
  • Victoria & Albert Museum
  • Waddesdon Manor

As well as short-term loans for temporary exhibitions, the Royal Mint has also made a small number of semi-permanent loans to institutions such as the British Museum, the Bank of England Museum and the Museum on the Mound in Edinburgh.