Bitcoin Museum
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Bitcoin Museum
El Salvador

Bitcoin’s history, kept in Bitcoin Country.

Get involved See the vision

OPENING 3 JANUARY 2030

The 21st anniversary of the Genesis Block. Centro Histórico, San Salvador.

CONCEPT ILLUSTRATION

OPENING DAY

3 JAN 2030

DIGITAL EXHIBITIONS

The museum is open online first.

All exhibitions →

Each exhibition is a researched story you scroll through, with animation, narration and every source one click away.

THE VISION

A permanent home for Bitcoin’s history, before it disappears.

The people who built Bitcoin are still alive, and the machines they used still exist. Neither will last. We are building the place that keeps both.

Preserve

Objects, documents and first-hand testimony.

Explain

From “what is money?” to running a node.

Gather

A place the Bitcoin community comes back to.

WHY EL SALVADOR

The only country whose own history is part of Bitcoin’s history.

2021

The first country to adopt Bitcoin. We tell the whole story.

4.1M

International visitors in 2025.

~7,500

Bitcoin in the state reserve.

$156M+

Invested in Centro Histórico since 2023.

INSIDE

Eight galleries, from the cypherpunks to El Salvador.

B Before Bitcoin 01 Before Bitcoin Satoshi’s Words 02 Satoshi’s Words The First Years 03 The First Years How It Works 04 How It Works Proof of Work 05 Proof of Work Keys and Custody 06 Keys and Custody Hall of Scams 07 Hall of Scams El Salvador 08 El Salvador
  1. 01Before Bitcoin
  2. 02Satoshi’s Words
  3. 03The First Years
  4. 04How It Works
  5. 05Proof of Work
  6. 06Keys and Custody
  7. 07Hall of Scams
  8. 08El Salvador

Plus an archive of filmed oral histories, a gallery for art, a store and an event space.

THE COLLECTION

Built to grow for decades.

Mining hardware, wallets, physical coins, print, protest signs, company archives and filmed testimony. We start with the objects everyone knows and go much further. Some of the first we are looking for:

  • The Times, 3 January 2009

  • The first ASIC miners

  • Casascius coins

  • Trezor Model One

  • A Robocoin ATM

  • The “Buy Bitcoin” sign

  • and everything else that tells the story.

Donate, loan or display with full attribution. Owners keep title on loans.

Own a piece of Bitcoin history? Write to us

ROADMAP

Prove it small, then build it permanent.

  1. 2026 – 2027

    Foundations

    The foundation, founding advisors, first oral histories.

  2. NOV 2027

    Pop-up exhibition

    Centro Histórico, opening with Bitcoin Histórico.

  3. 3 JAN 2030

    Permanent museum

    Opens on Genesis Block day.

GET INVOLVED

We are looking for the first stones, not the avalanche.

Advisors, collectors and founding partners: if you want to help build this, write to us. The full presentation is available on request.

Write to us partnerships@bitcoinmuseum.sv