Digging in the archive

... and its Relation to Money

Tewje, the Milkman

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

15 stories

Who wanted the crusades?

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

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

... and its consequences

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Max Havelaar

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

a coin tour

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

a coin tour

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

a picture tour

a picture tour

Table talk

by Carol Schwyzer

Der Steppenwolf

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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

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

Filmduration: 21 minutes

An analysis on social justice

a picture tour

Vanity Fair

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

The city

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Youth without God

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

a coin tour

a coin-podcast

a coin tour

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

Four books on measurement

- The Yen

The first opportunity to handle money …

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

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

Madame Bovary

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Collection MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

New Atlas, 1710

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

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

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

Satyricon

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Physiognomic Fragments

a picture tour

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

J. R. R. Tolkien

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

a picture tour

by Andreas Urs Sommer

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

a coin tour

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

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

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

Moby Dick

Features of the Human Face on Coins

by Harald Wessbecher

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

... on justice and freedom of action

Canterbury Tales

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a video podcast

Great Expectations

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Filmduration: 29 minutes

a coin tour

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

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

The Decameron

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

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

a coin tour

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

Erewhon

a picture tour

Voltaire and Rousseau

By Katrin Schär

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Filmduration: 7 minutes

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

The golden Age / Dream Days

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

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

a picture tour

Reminiscences

of Switzerland.

The sea wolf

Holland in the 17th century

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

... 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.

Brigitta and other tales

Don Quixote

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

Meistererzählungen

The medieval world order

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

5th Century B.C. Athens

The Forgers

© Andreas Platthaus

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

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

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

Ideal and Reality

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Videoduration: 15 minutes

of the MoneyMuseum

Wuthering Heights

a coin tour

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

of the MoneyMuseum

- Money in different Forms

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

a coin tour

two examples

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

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

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

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

a picture tour

The Turn of the Screw

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

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

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Oblomow

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

a chart service for the investor

Stopfkuchen.

1816: The year without a Summer

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

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

- from the Vikings until today

The Beautiful and the Damned

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Il Milione

of the MoneyMuseum

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

A successful concept for the investor

a view from history

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

I Ging

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

a picture tour

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

The Great Gatsby

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Les Misérables

The Scarlet Letter

a picture tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Old Goriot

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Consolation of Philosophy

A short statement

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

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

a pictoure tour

Sonnets

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

Milan between 1412 and 1447

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Treasure Island

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Gotha numaria, 1730

financial markets and the virtuality of values

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

Bel-Ami

Stiller

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

a picture tour

by Marcus Junkelmann

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Short video on how to attain it

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

Middlemarch

a coin tour

The Idiot

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

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

for the investor

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

- Islamic Money

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

a video podcast

a coin tour

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

a picture tour

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

Master Tales

Money defined in seven categories

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Walden or Life in the Woods

a chart service for the investor

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

publiziert 1716

Carmen

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

in the money markets

Sense and Sensibility

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

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Robinson Crusoe

Filmduration: 52 minutes

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

Published 1948

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

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

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

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

of the MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

in Classical Antiquity

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Nero‘s Propaganda

Fahrenheit 451

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Master Tales

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

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

By Günter Hoffmann

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

A report from Ruanda

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

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

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

Jane Eyre

a coin podcast

Collected Fairy Tales

a video podcast

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

by Herbert George Wells

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Charles Baudelaire

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

by Robert Schneebeli

a picture tour

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Radetzkymarsch

Aldous Huxley

Introduction Roman Republic

Change of Climate as trigger

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

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

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

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

A Christmas Carol

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

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

eine Bildertour

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

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

a video podcast

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

Conversation Book

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Clarissa Harlowe

Der Besuch der alten Dame

a coin tour

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

The poor man in Tockenburg

On Human Relations

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

- Respectable and Trustworthy

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

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Pride and Prejudice

Filmduration: 34 minutes

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

a picture tour

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

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

Animal Farm

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

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

The Martian Chronicles

Meistererzählungen

by Peter Wolf

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

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

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

– the Birth of Tolerance

by Ursula Kampmann

The Maltese Falcon

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

Effi Briest

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

visually explained

Germinal

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Self-portrait