Museum of the National Bank of Belgium

Videos about the tasks and activities of the NBB

Room 6: Banknote production and security

Today, banknotes bear four main security features:
a watermark, a security thread, a hologram strip or foil patch and a see-through effect.
(Extract from the film presenting these 4 elements)

Room 7: Price stability, why is it important for you?

Anna and Alex fall asleep during the economics classes. They find themselves in a strange world and meet somebody weird….the inflation monster.

Room 10: German hyperinflation of 1922-1923

Extract of a film on some of the most severe financial crises of our history.
The extract focuses on the famous hyperinflation that hit Germany in 1922 and 1923.

Room 11: History of European integration

The long march forward … from the Common Market to Economic and Monetary Union.
(extract of the film shown in Room 11)