Digging in the archive

- Respectable and Trustworthy

... and its consequences

in Classical Antiquity

... and its Relation to Money

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Oblomow

a picture tour

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Meistererzählungen

... to Attila, Charlemagne, Archduke Sigismund and Emperor Charles V

The golden Age / Dream Days

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

"Sunflower" critically examines money: The situation of money is critical, and the aim is to critically assess money.

Money defined in seven categories

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Bearing rulers’ portraits, coins were always symbols of power.

Physiognomic Fragments

Erewhon

Aldous Huxley

The beat rhythm has its origin in the fact that we have to deal with money every single day.

a picture tour

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

We need money for the necessities of life. Thus – money must shape our thinking. What implications does that have?

Money and Relationship I: What constitutes the «I» in modern times?

Beyond Money I: Is it possible to think beyond money, since we only know the world shaped by money?

minted its own Large Silver Coins on Tyrolean Model in 1494 A.D.

Money and Power III: The need for money springs from governments.

Silver was incredibly precious in the early Middle Ages. How it was extracted, we see in Melle.

What is the cause of inflation and where does it lead us to?

a coin tour

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Money and Material II: How did coins actually come to physically represent exchange value? Eske Bockelmann explains.

Youth without God

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Animal Farm

- Islamic Money

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Satyricon

Wuthering Heights

Il Milione

Ecuador has to repay its debt with oil - what does that mean?

Filmduration: 39 minutes

a coin tour

Master Tales

of Switzerland.

a coin tour

Middlemarch

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

of the MoneyMuseum

Conversation Book

Money and Relationship II: In a modern society, its members are linked by dependence on money. What does this mean?

The Beautiful and the Damned

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

of the MoneyMuseum

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Texts and pictures of the most important currencies from Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern Times

publiziert 1716

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Decameron

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

trying to modernize Russia - and fell Victim to the troubled Times

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Published 1948

– the Birth of Tolerance

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Walden or Life in the Woods

MoneyMusuem’s wide-ranging exhibition on Bitcoin, including its many videos, is available here online.

Stopfkuchen.

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

© Andreas Platthaus

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Martian Chronicles

A successful concept for the investor

Where did the meat come from which was consumed in medieval Nuremberg?

On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

in the money markets

a coin tour

Money and Exchange II: Purchasing replaces people’s comprehensive sense of obligation.

Money and Time III: The capitalist system is based on money as capital: money that yields more money.

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

by Dagmar Lorenz

Beyond Money III: The modern means of production and distribution are to be re-used – without money.

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

beautiful High Relief Coinage

a picture tour

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

a chart service for the investor

by Joachim Rau, author of «Märkte, Mächte, Monopole.»

Four books on measurement

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Stiller

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Pride and Prejudice

Filmduration: 34 minutes

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Filmduration: 32 minutes

The self-conception of the bourgeoisie and the new money market

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

Beyond Money II: In the commons approach, money confronts something that involves collective participation.

a picture tour

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

Radetzkymarsch

New Atlas, 1710

In modern times, a theory of money is inevitably a theory of society. Such theoretical effort is very much called for.

a picture tour

Great Expectations

Introduction Roman Republic

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

A fatal accident, a question of destiny and a strong personality.

Filmduration: 23 minutes

ThurnierBuch, 1532

On Human Relations

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Is our money what we can call an original or a worthless copy, an empty promise?

We all use money and have a relationship to it. And this publication is about both aspects.

Meistererzählungen

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

The Forgers

a coin tour

a coin tour

Money and Time II: The economy is forced to make more money out of money. But what actually drives this compulsion?

Money and Exchange III: The emergence of the market economy made money the universal medium of interchange.

The Maltese Falcon

Robinson Crusoe

Voltaire and Rousseau

financial markets and the virtuality of values

The medieval world order

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Vanity Fair

a coin tour

by Herbert George Wells

Theatrum Machinarium, Oder: Schau-Platz der Heb-Zeuge, 1725

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Diadoch in Macedonia, Greece and Asia c. 290 B.C.

The two main branches of Chinese philosophy, Confucianism and Taoism, have their common roots here ...

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

a video podcast

Money and Power I: A toothbrush belongs to one person. The soil that feed many people follows other laws.

The White Heron, and Other Tales from the Country of the Pointed Firs

She was a stunner. Daughter of an emperor, hostage and widow of a Gothic king ...

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Sense and Sensibility

Collected Fairy Tales

eine Bildertour

a picture tour

The Turn of the Screw

Jürg Conzett, MoneyMuseum’s founder, shares his thoughts on the nature of money.

a coin tour

a picture tour

From alms to citizen’s income by Günter Hoffmann, Berlin

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

by Andreas Urs Sommer

A short statement

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

The poor man in Tockenburg

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

... leaves no traces. Video explores some main differences between Eastern and Western mentalities.

Coins of the Roman Republic mirror a time when money, politics, commerce and war collided.

Money and Time I: The economy is forced to make more money out of money.

Money and Power II: It’s the people in our society who are forced to buy and sell.

15 stories

Holland in the 17th century

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

A coin named "Waserthaler" and a mayor who was thought to have betrayed his hometown. Not true – read the truth.

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

visually explained

A money-free world: Would it be possible? Would we make it possible?

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

A report from Ruanda

Nero‘s Propaganda

a view from history

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Reminiscences

for the investor

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Charles Baudelaire

Get an answer in 90 seconds

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Jane Eyre

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Thought Form III: We can buy everything with money, and we interpret everything in the form it assumes through money.

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

from the French Role Model with explicit Alpine Connotation and Democratic Topics

by Robert Schneebeli

Carmen

A Christmas Carol

Thought Form II: Money and merchandise veil themselves in subject and object.

Money and Material I: What are the origins of money?

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Ideal and Reality

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

I Ging

Madame Bovary

The search for Aesillas leads us to the means the Romans used to conquer Asia Minor.

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

The bloody end of the Staufer and the conquest of Sicily.

a coin tour

Discussion about the relationship between work and the ability of a job to generate meaning.

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

two examples

a video podcast

Ocean health is a Black Elephant: un occurrence that is foreseeable but whose causes are ignored – until it happens.

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Bars of precious metal as Currency, Precursor of coined money and to store Wealth

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Collected Tales. The Tremolino/ Because of the Dollars/ The Secret Sharer ...

- from the Vikings until today

Money is … a fairy tale. One that comes true, if we all believe in it.

The Idiot

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

by Ursula Kampmann

Moby Dick

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

- The Yen

a 2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a picture tour

a picture tour

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Do you handle money like Scrooge McDuck, Charlie Brown, Happy-Go-Lucky or a moneymaker? Try this test and find out.

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Max Havelaar

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

of the MoneyMuseum

L'Ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale des Provinces Unies vers l'Empereur de la Chine, 1665

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Bottom-Fishing: How to Avoid the Traps, a chart service by FinGraphs

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Great Gatsby

– the History of a Close Relationship by Christoph Weber-Berg, Zürich

Money and Relationship III: Our world as external world is made into a sellable thing, a commodity.

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

The Conflict of Investitures was not only a matter of clerical authority, but also of money.

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Augsburg‘s bloom till 1618, tax rolls reflect its decline since the Thirty Years‘ War

Tewje, the Milkman

a picture tour

Les Misérables

Don Quixote

Money is both real and unreal at the same time. Why is this and why is value a product of imagination?

of the MoneyMuseum

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Der Steppenwolf

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Thought Form I: Let you take on an imaginary journey to see what happens with monetary value as a pure number.

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

a coin tour

The Scarlet Letter

Videoduration: 15 minutes

a coin tour

Fahrenheit 451

a coin tour

a coin tour

Brigitta and other tales

Consolation of Philosophy

The legendary wealth of king Kroesus is still known today ....

Table talk

By Günter Hoffmann

A word play in German on love and life - it all depends on the direction of the "i".

Listen to the answers of an economist, banker, professor and money manager

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Change of Climate as trigger

In 2008, a financial crisis descended upon the world. A film sheds light on the backdrop and the history.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Roman Republic - The Roman army as the base of the Roman Empire

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a picture tour

Milan between 1412 and 1447

a picture tour

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

The sea wolf

Effi Briest

Old Goriot

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

J. R. R. Tolkien

Short video on how to attain it

by Peter Wolf

Who wanted the crusades?

Thus spoke Zarathustra

5th Century B.C. Athens

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Collection MoneyMuseum

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

2-minute-video from the series "success stories"

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

The first opportunity to handle money …

Quiz questions to money and general knowledge - as app for your smart phone.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Self-portrait

An analysis on social justice

Crises influence each other. The presented content highlights the causes and their relationship to money.

... how athletes were honored during the era of the Roman Empire

by Harald Wessbecher

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

- Money in different Forms

a picture tour

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

a picture tour

By Katrin Schär

a podcast of the year in 1527

Sonnets

The Path to Modernity Taken by the Land of the Rising Sun by Dagmar Lorenz.

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

In the second half of the 17th century, Scotland became part of the UK

The city

1816: The year without a Summer

Treasure Island

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Canterbury Tales

Russia and the terror crisis under Czar Alexanders II. (1855-1881)

Clarissa Harlowe

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a pictoure tour

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

a coin-podcast

AudioGuide Roman Republic

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

The world’s oldest book remains a rich source of wisdom today. A film as introduction.

a coin podcast

by Marcus Junkelmann

Master Tales

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Das Totenschiff. Die Geschichte eines amerikanischen Seemanns (The Death Ship)

... on justice and freedom of action

Bel-Ami

In brief, it is the key to understanding what money does to us – and what it does to the world.

a video podcast

a chart service for the investor

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

a video podcast

Money and Material III: From a coin as a unit of exchange value to a function that is only defined digitally.

Money and Exchange I: Exchange, gift, obligation – when, where and how do they come into play?

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Works of the famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen of Florence, London 1680

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

by Lukas M. Schneider

... since when has money been in existence?

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

"Those who have will be given more, and will have an abundance."

a picture tour

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

Gotha numaria, 1730

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430) experiences an identity crisis.

19th century Germany was bothered by many different currencies. Here, you learn how they became one.

Louis XIV of France, the Sun King balanced his state budget by means of a housekeeping book ....

by Carol Schwyzer

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Germinal