Situated inside the former Bydgoszcz Mint – once the only operational mint in the country - the Money Museum proves spending isn’t always the most interesting thing you can do with cash. The main floor of this bright museum devotes all its space to an interesting temporary exhibit (runs through November) on the European conversion to the Euro. Working with the European Central Bank, the museum features notes and coins from around the Euro zone and traces the history of the universal currency process. Interactive touch-screen computers add an element of trivia to what you might (wrongly) assume would be a dry exhibit. With that bit wrapped up venture round the back where a security guard will escort you round a room full of weird contraptions: some scary looking tongs, hatchets, hammers and a machine once used to press coins: it’s here that English translations start to become scarce, so head instead to the final chamber where a series of displays – including a 3D hologram – tell the story of Polish money. 

Admission 5/3zł (ticket for all departments of the District Museum 12/8zł). Sat free.