Take a tour of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

The Mezzanine Exhibit

Your visit to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City will begin with a tour of our interactive Mezzanine Exhibit in our Visitors Center. Here you will see the inner workings of the Federal Reserve System: history, goals, and duties. You will learn how the Bank impacts the economy through monetary policy, find out what services are offered to financial institutions and consumers, and discover how the Bank supervises and regulates depository institutions. Then test your knowledge by playing one of the Mezzanine’s interactive quiz games!

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Cash Services Department

After the Mezzanine, you will tour the Bank’s Cash Services Department. There you can view our high-speed sorter that counts, sorts, and destroys up to 100,000 notes per hour. You also will be able to take a look inside our east and west vaults, where money and valuables are stored and processed.

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Retail Payments Department

Next on your tour, you will see the Retail Payments Department, our check processing center. You will see the high-speed processing equipment that sorts more than one million checks per day.

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The Money Museum

The tour will conclude with the Bank’s Money Museum in the Roger C. Guffey Gallery. The museum houses a vast historic coin collection from the Truman Presidential Museum and Library. Be sure to test your knowledge at the counterfeit currency display, and check out our gold bar on loan from the United States Department of the Treasury!

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For additional tour information or to contact us about scheduling a tour, please contact the Public Affairs Department at (816) 881-2683 or visit our Web site for additional tour information.

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