archive of documents

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

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

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

Les Misérables

15 stories

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

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

J. R. R. Tolkien

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Walden or Life in the Woods

a coin tour

eine Bildertour

Filmduration: 7 minutes

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

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

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

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

The medieval world order

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

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

a picture tour

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

Voltaire and Rousseau

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

The Scarlet Letter

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

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

Stiller

a picture tour

Filmduration: 52 minutes

... and its consequences

A short statement

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmduration: 29 minutes

The Great Gatsby

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

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

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

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

of Switzerland.

Brigitta and other tales

1816: The year without a Summer

Mrs Jenny Treibel

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

a coin tour

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

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Money defined in seven categories

a picture tour

The sea wolf

Ideal and Reality

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

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

... since when has money been in existence?

a picture tour

Aldous Huxley

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a pictoure tour

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

A report from Ruanda

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Bel-Ami

On Human Relations

publiziert 1716

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Change of Climate as trigger

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Features of the Human Face on Coins

by Robert Schneebeli

Vanity Fair

Wuthering Heights

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

Old Goriot

Tewje, the Milkman

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

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

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

a picture tour

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Physiognomic Fragments

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Thus spoke Zarathustra

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

The first opportunity to handle money …

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Treasure Island

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

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Master Tales

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

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

in Classical Antiquity

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The golden Age / Dream Days

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

Animal Farm

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

The Beautiful and the Damned

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

a coin tour

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

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

- from the Vikings until today

Erewhon

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Max Havelaar

The Idiot

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

a coin tour

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

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

Who wanted the crusades?

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Self-portrait

Germinal

Moby Dick

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

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

a coin tour

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

of the MoneyMuseum

a view from history

The Maltese Falcon

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

in the money markets

a picture tour

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

a podcast of the year in 1527

Don Quixote

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

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

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

Get an answer in 90 seconds

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

Charles Baudelaire

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Introduction Roman Republic

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

a picture tour

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Meistererzählungen

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

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

a video podcast

Robinson Crusoe

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

I Ging

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

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

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

The Martian Chronicles

Pride and Prejudice

Il Milione

Collected Fairy Tales

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

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The poor man in Tockenburg

Published 1948

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Short video on how to attain it

Gotha numaria, 1730

Consolation of Philosophy

5th Century B.C. Athens

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

financial markets and the virtuality of values

a picture tour

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

Conversation Book

- Islamic Money

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Filmduration: 20 minutes

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Sense and Sensibility

by Harald Wessbecher

The Turn of the Screw

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

Effi Briest

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Master Tales

Madame Bovary

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

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

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

a coin podcast

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

The city

New Atlas, 1710

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

by Marcus Junkelmann

Fahrenheit 451

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

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

by Peter Wolf

two examples

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

The Forgers

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Table talk

a picture tour

- Respectable and Trustworthy

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Carmen

a chart service for the investor

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

A Christmas Carol

Collection MoneyMuseum

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

Radetzkymarsch

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

a coin-podcast

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

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

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Der Steppenwolf

Satyricon

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

a coin tour

a coin tour

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

by Lukas M. Schneider

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

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

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

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

by Herbert George Wells

Milan between 1412 and 1447

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

AudioGuide Roman Republic

by Ursula Kampmann

of the MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

Reminiscences

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a picture tour

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

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

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

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

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

by Andreas Urs Sommer

a coin tour

Holland in the 17th century

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

a coin tour

Four books on measurement

Filmduration: 32 minutes

a picture tour

Sonnets

a picture tour

By Katrin Schär

of the MoneyMuseum

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

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

by Dagmar Lorenz

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

beautiful High Relief Coinage

a video podcast

a video podcast

Oblomow

a chart service for the investor

Jane Eyre

a coin tour

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

for the investor

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

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

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

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

Stopfkuchen.

a coin tour

A successful concept for the investor

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a video podcast

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

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

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Nero‘s Propaganda

... and its Relation to Money

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

An analysis on social justice

a picture tour

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

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

of the MoneyMuseum

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

visually explained

- Money in different Forms

The Decameron

a coin tour

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

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Youth without God

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

by Carol Schwyzer

Meistererzählungen

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

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

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

© Andreas Platthaus

... on justice and freedom of action

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

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

By Günter Hoffmann

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

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

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

a picture tour

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Middlemarch

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

ThurnierBuch, 1532

- The Yen

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Canterbury Tales

a coin tour

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Clarissa Harlowe

– the Birth of Tolerance

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Great Expectations

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

a coin tour

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

of the MoneyMuseum

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