Digging in the archive

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

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

by Carol Schwyzer

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

a picture tour

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

a picture tour

Don Quixote

Max Havelaar

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

The Forgers

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Table talk

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- from the Vikings until today

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a video podcast

A short statement

a picture tour

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

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

Change of Climate as trigger

Features of the Human Face on Coins

a picture tour

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

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

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Charles Baudelaire

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

a coin tour

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

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

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Get an answer in 90 seconds

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

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

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

5th Century B.C. Athens

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

The Turn of the Screw

Collected Fairy Tales

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

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

a coin tour

Vanity Fair

An analysis on social justice

a picture tour

a coin tour

ThurnierBuch, 1532

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

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Filmduration: 72 minutes

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

The golden Age / Dream Days

Brigitta and other tales

... and its consequences

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

a picture tour

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Robinson Crusoe

Milan between 1412 and 1447

a coin podcast

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

by Peter Wolf

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

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

The Maltese Falcon

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Bel-Ami

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

The poor man in Tockenburg

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

Clarissa Harlowe

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

for the investor

© Andreas Platthaus

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

a picture tour

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Reminiscences

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Stopfkuchen.

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

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

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

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

The Martian Chronicles

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Il Milione

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Der Steppenwolf

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

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

eine Bildertour

Master Tales

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Canterbury Tales

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

a coin tour

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

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

by Dagmar Lorenz

a coin tour

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

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

Youth without God

Fahrenheit 451

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

By Günter Hoffmann

a picture tour

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

The Beautiful and the Damned

By Katrin Schär

The sea wolf

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Self-portrait

Carmen

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

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

two examples

Pride and Prejudice

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The first opportunity to handle money …

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

- Islamic Money

Gotha numaria, 1730

Ideal and Reality

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Filmduration: 20 minutes

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

by Robert Schneebeli

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

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

a picture tour

Satyricon

a video podcast

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

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Oblomow

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a chart service for the investor

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

a coin tour

1816: The year without a Summer

15 stories

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Moby Dick

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Money defined in seven categories

Four books on measurement

Who wanted the crusades?

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

publiziert 1716

a coin tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Radetzkymarsch

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

The medieval world order

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

by Lukas M. Schneider

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Les Misérables

Tewje, the Milkman

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

Holland in the 17th century

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Consolation of Philosophy

a picture tour

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

A successful concept for the investor

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

- Money in different Forms

Published 1948

in Classical Antiquity

Erewhon

Middlemarch

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

The Great Gatsby

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

by Ursula Kampmann

Short video on how to attain it

The Decameron

a coin tour

Germinal

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Treasure Island

a coin tour

Master Tales

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

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

The Scarlet Letter

... since when has money been in existence?

beautiful High Relief Coinage

a picture tour

Jane Eyre

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

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

a picture tour

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

Introduction Roman Republic

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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

Videoduration: 15 minutes

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

I Ging

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a coin tour

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

a picture tour

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Physiognomic Fragments

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Madame Bovary

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

Sense and Sensibility

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

a coin tour

- Respectable and Trustworthy

A report from Ruanda

The Idiot

Old Goriot

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

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

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

- the Basis for Everyday Money

- The Yen

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

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

by Herbert George Wells

a coin tour

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

Aldous Huxley

New Atlas, 1710

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

of Switzerland.

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

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

a picture tour

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

of the MoneyMuseum

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

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

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

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Collection MoneyMuseum

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

On Human Relations

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

a chart service for the investor

Effi Briest

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Walden or Life in the Woods

Filmduration: 7 minutes

a pictoure tour

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

Conversation Book

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

a view from history

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

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Great Expectations

A Christmas Carol

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

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

Meistererzählungen

... on justice and freedom of action

Animal Farm

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Wuthering Heights

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

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

a coin-podcast

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

of the MoneyMuseum

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

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

Meistererzählungen

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

in the money markets

Travel around the World in 80 Days

The city

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Filmduration: 34 minutes

a coin tour

Stiller

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

visually explained

Voltaire and Rousseau

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

a video podcast

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

by Harald Wessbecher

... and its Relation to Money

a video podcast

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

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

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Thus spoke Zarathustra

a coin tour

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

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

Sonnets