Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Our next stop was to the bureau of engraving and printing facility in Fort Worth.

The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) is a U.S. government agency under the Department of the Treasury that designs and produces various security products, primarily Federal Reserve Notes (paper money). It has facilities in Washington, D.C., and Fort Worth, Texas.

They have super high security here so before you even walk in the visitor center, you cannot bring your camera or smart watch or anything really. So the pictures kind of stink I took them off the brochure that we were able to take with us.

The tour was super cool. It’s self guided and we got to walk around and read about the history of how they printed money and then we got to go upstairs to the production viewing area where we were able to see all the machines printing the money and stacks and stacks and stacks of cash. It was unbelievable. Millions upon millions upon millions of dollars. I don’t think we would ever see that much money in our entire lives. They run three shifts so they work printing money 24 hours a day seven days a week. It’s kind of crazy because you have to think about where does all that paper cash go?Læs mere