Lithuanian Museum of money the National Bank of Lithuania

The beginnings of the Money Museum can be traced as far back as 1985 when the Lithuanian Republican Office of the USSR State Bank housed the Museum of the History of the State Bank. It was registered in 1986 as one of public museums in the Lithuanian SSR and stored 489 exhibits from its main holdings. The responsibilities of the Museum’s Superintendent were entrusted to Genovaitė Leonavičiūtė, a long-time employee of the USSR State Bank’s Lithuanian Republican Office. The formation of the Museum’s collections was limited to the gathering of material collected for ideological and propaganda purposes, on bankers who participated in the war and work veterans, counting technology, anniversary, circulation and withdrawn from circulation rubles. From 1988 the head of the Board of Affairs of the USSR State Bank’s Lithuanian Republican Office, Vladislavas Andriuškevičius, was appointed responsible for the Museum’s activities on a public basis.