archive of documents

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

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

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

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Radetzkymarsch

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

a picture tour

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

eine Bildertour

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

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

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.

The Martian Chronicles

by Dagmar Lorenz

of Switzerland.

a picture tour

Mrs Jenny Treibel

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

a chart service for the investor

Conversation Book

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Gotha numaria, 1730

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

... on justice and freedom of action

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

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

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

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

a video podcast

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Robinson Crusoe

Great Expectations

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

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

The poor man in Tockenburg

Introduction Roman Republic

Old Goriot

The medieval world order

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Jane Eyre

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Nero‘s Propaganda

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Satyricon

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

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

a coin tour

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

by Herbert George Wells

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

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

Brigitta and other tales

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

1816: The year without a Summer

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

A successful concept for the investor

Charles Baudelaire

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

ThurnierBuch, 1532

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

Middlemarch

- the Basis for Everyday Money

A Christmas Carol

By Katrin Schär

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Voltaire and Rousseau

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

Stopfkuchen.

Youth without God

Erewhon

Four books on measurement

Max Havelaar

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Published 1948

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

by Ursula Kampmann

a coin tour

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

a picture tour

Sonnets

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

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Animal Farm

Change of Climate as trigger

a picture tour

Who wanted the crusades?

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

Ideal and Reality

Effi Briest

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

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

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

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

Der Steppenwolf

a picture tour

a picture tour

... since when has money been in existence?

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

two examples

Table talk

The Maltese Falcon

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

by Harald Wessbecher

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

A report from Ruanda

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

Aldous Huxley

Milan between 1412 and 1447

a coin tour

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The first opportunity to handle money …

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

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

- The Yen

Collected Fairy Tales

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Collection MoneyMuseum

Short video on how to attain it

Holland in the 17th century

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

Get an answer in 90 seconds

by Peter Wolf

Carmen

... and its Relation to Money

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

a picture tour

Money defined in seven categories

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

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

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

On Human Relations

a picture tour

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

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

- Money in different Forms

a video podcast

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

The Great Gatsby

a coin tour

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

- Islamic Money

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

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

a video podcast

a coin tour

for the investor

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

a picture tour

15 stories

Canterbury Tales

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Physiognomic Fragments

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

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

I Ging

Vanity Fair

a coin tour

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Germinal

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

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

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

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Videoduration: 15 minutes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Don Quixote

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

An analysis on social justice

Master Tales

Fahrenheit 451

financial markets and the virtuality of values

visually explained

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

The Forgers

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

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Meistererzählungen

a coin tour

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

Wuthering Heights

a picture tour

of the MoneyMuseum

a podcast of the year in 1527

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

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

- from the Vikings until today

a coin tour

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

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

The sea wolf

... and its consequences

Pride and Prejudice

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

by Lukas M. Schneider

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a coin tour

Bel-Ami

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

in Classical Antiquity

The golden Age / Dream Days

Features of the Human Face on Coins

A short statement

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Oblomow

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

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Stiller

© Andreas Platthaus

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

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

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Filmduration: 52 minutes

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

a coin tour

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

a coin tour

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Clarissa Harlowe

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

By Günter Hoffmann

a pictoure tour

in the money markets

of the MoneyMuseum

a video podcast

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Consolation of Philosophy

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

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

a coin-podcast

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

Treasure Island

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Il Milione

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

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

New Atlas, 1710

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

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

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

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

a coin tour

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

The Idiot

a picture tour

Self-portrait

by Carol Schwyzer

a chart service for the investor

a view from history

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Filmduration: 39 minutes

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Master Tales

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Moby Dick

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

of the MoneyMuseum

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Meistererzählungen

Les Misérables

The Decameron

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

Walden or Life in the Woods

The Beautiful and the Damned

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

a coin podcast

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

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

a picture tour

a picture tour

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

by Robert Schneebeli

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a picture tour

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Tewje, the Milkman

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

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Madame Bovary

publiziert 1716

The Turn of the Screw

Reminiscences

The Scarlet Letter

a coin tour

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Filmduration: 32 minutes

beautiful High Relief Coinage

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Sense and Sensibility

Filmduration: 7 minutes

a coin tour

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

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

The city

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today