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Conversation Book

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

financial markets and the virtuality of values

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

by Dagmar Lorenz

a picture tour

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

A short statement

By Katrin Schär

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Filmduration: 7 minutes

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

of the MoneyMuseum

The sea wolf

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

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

by Ursula Kampmann

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

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

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

publiziert 1716

Pride and Prejudice

© Andreas Platthaus

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

by Robert Schneebeli

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

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Introduction Roman Republic

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

a picture tour

a coin tour

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

J. R. R. Tolkien

Four books on measurement

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Published 1948

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

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

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

of Switzerland.

Aldous Huxley

eine Bildertour

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

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

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

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Wuthering Heights

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

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

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Robinson Crusoe

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

a coin-podcast

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

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.

Clarissa Harlowe

a picture tour

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

Sense and Sensibility

Tewje, the Milkman

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

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

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

Collection MoneyMuseum

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

of the MoneyMuseum

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

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Meistererzählungen

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

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

a video podcast

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

in Classical Antiquity

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

two examples

a picture tour

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

a video podcast

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Money defined in seven categories

The poor man in Tockenburg

Master Tales

by Marcus Junkelmann

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

The Great Gatsby

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Moby Dick

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Les Misérables

a coin tour

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

Satyricon

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Germinal

a picture tour

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

by Peter Wolf

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Brigitta and other tales

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

by Carol Schwyzer

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Max Havelaar

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

for the investor

by Harald Wessbecher

of the MoneyMuseum

By Günter Hoffmann

a picture tour

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

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

a chart service for the investor

a coin tour

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

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Filmduration: 72 minutes

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Travel around the World in 80 Days

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a picture tour

Erewhon

a coin tour

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

A Christmas Carol

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Youth without God

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

a picture tour

a picture tour

The Decameron

a picture tour

Gotha numaria, 1730

Charles Baudelaire

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

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

The Idiot

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

a video podcast

a coin tour

a coin tour

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

a coin tour

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

Table talk

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

The Forgers

... and its Relation to Money

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Who wanted the crusades?

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

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

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

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

Change of Climate as trigger

Short video on how to attain it

Carmen

- The Yen

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

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Vanity Fair

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

a view from history

Effi Briest

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Meistererzählungen

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

Radetzkymarsch

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

A successful concept for the investor

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

The Scarlet Letter

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Great Expectations

Holland in the 17th century

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

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

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

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

a picture tour

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

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

The medieval world order

The Turn of the Screw

... and its consequences

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

Oblomow

... since when has money been in existence?

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

A report from Ruanda

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

a coin tour

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Middlemarch

5th Century B.C. Athens

The golden Age / Dream Days

by Andreas Urs Sommer

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

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Old Goriot

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Stiller

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

- Money in different Forms

Physiognomic Fragments

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Bel-Ami

Reminiscences

Stopfkuchen.

Get an answer in 90 seconds

of the MoneyMuseum

Madame Bovary

Canterbury Tales

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

a coin tour

Videoduration: 15 minutes

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

15 stories

a coin tour

a pictoure tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

On Human Relations

by Lukas M. Schneider

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

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

Animal Farm

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

- Islamic Money

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

a coin tour

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

- Respectable and Trustworthy

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

a coin tour

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

Jane Eyre

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Thus spoke Zarathustra

1816: The year without a Summer

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Ideal and Reality

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

Walden or Life in the Woods

Consolation of Philosophy

Master Tales

Filmduration: 32 minutes

in the money markets

I Ging

a picture tour

The city

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Self-portrait

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

a coin tour

The Maltese Falcon

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Martian Chronicles

visually explained

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

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

by Herbert George Wells

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

- from the Vikings until today

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

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

An analysis on social justice

Fahrenheit 451

a coin tour

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

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

Don Quixote

a chart service for the investor

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a video podcast

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

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

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

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

The Beautiful and the Damned

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

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

New Atlas, 1710

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Treasure Island

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

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

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

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

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

Collected Fairy Tales

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Voltaire and Rousseau

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

Der Steppenwolf

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

The first opportunity to handle money …

a picture tour

Sonnets

Il Milione

Der Besuch der alten Dame

a coin tour

... on justice and freedom of action

a coin podcast