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OUR TIPS: The MoneyMuseum in Gold Fever

From the summer of 2010, the MoneyMuseum hosts an exhibition on gold at its premises on Hadlaubstrasse in Zurich. To give our future visitors a first impression of the show, we present the most famous...

OUR TIPS: Bride Money and Other Ceremonial Currencies

On January 4, 2010, the South African president Jacob Zuma married his fiancée Thobeka Mabhija. The ceremony was held according to the traditions of Zuma's Zulu tribe. Beforehand the president had pai...

COIN COLLECTION: Roman Republic, L. Lucretius Trio, Denarius, 76 BC

This denarius depicts Neptune, the god of the sea, recognizable by a trident over his shoulder. Behind him is the mint control-mark XXXIIII. The reverse shows a little winged boy – a cupid – riding on...

COIN COLLECTION: Korinth, Stater, c. 380 BC

Like in many other cities of Ancient Greece, Corinthian coins referred to the legendary foundation of the town. In Corinth, legend had it that the winged horse Pegasus had set free the source of Peire...

TEXT COLLECTION: The Peace of Westphalia – the Birth of Tolerance

Tolerance – an centuries-old demand, a modern necessity

The more different people are, the more conflicts there are in the world, the more essential tolerance becomes. In the world of today it seems particularly essential, when we look at all the alliances, networks, associations and even courses teaching tolerance, which have sprung up everywhere in recent years. In 1995 in Paris, UNESCO proclaimed 16 November as the "International Day of Tolerance," which confirms the trend.

But a demand for tolerance is by no means new, as the MoneyMuseum shows. And nowadays it is needed for more than simply bridging religious differences – it brings harmony to cultural and ethnic divisions too ...

COIN TOURS: Celtic Coins and their Archetypes

The Celts dominated vast parts of Europe from the beginning of the 5th century BC. On their campaigns they clashed with the Etruscans, the Romans and the Greeks, they fought as mercenaries under Phili...

PICTURE TOURS: The MoneyMuseum Book Collection: Books of the 16th Century

© MoneyMuseum 2005 The 16th century was a tumultuous epoch, marked by the upheavals in the wake of the Reformation. It was a time in which the religious unity of central Europe came to a close, a t...