Decree n° 1.59.233 of 30 June 1959 created the Banque du Maroc, which took over the issuance of money the next day, and replaced the State Bank of Morocco.

October saw the passage of amendments to the Bank's statutes that clarified its role in monetary policy, and that granted it greater autonomy.

The new law reinforced Bank Al-Maghrib's independence in terms of monetary policy, and provided a legal basis for its responsibility for the payment system.

On 15 November 2022, Bank Al-Maghrib and the Office des Changes, the country's foreign trade institution, signed a partnership agreement.

[6][7] A week after the earthquake struck, Bank Al-Maghrib donated 1 Billion dirhams for relief operations of quake-hit regions.

With more than 30,000 coins, banknotes, monetary instruments and other objects, the museum and its adjacent art gallery of several hundred artworks document the 2000-year-old cultural history of money and its artistic representation in the country's past and present.