Digging in the archive

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

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

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

a coin tour

financial markets and the virtuality of values

of the MoneyMuseum

A report from Ruanda

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Collection MoneyMuseum

Nero‘s Propaganda

Il Milione

a coin tour

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

- The Yen

a coin tour

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Change of Climate as trigger

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

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

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Reminiscences

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

The medieval world order

Gotha numaria, 1730

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

ThurnierBuch, 1532

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

A successful concept for the investor

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

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

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

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

15 stories

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Der Steppenwolf

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Oblomow

by Dagmar Lorenz

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

publiziert 1716

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

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

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

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

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Meistererzählungen

A Christmas Carol

Radetzkymarsch

a picture tour

a view from history

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

a coin tour

On Human Relations

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

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

a picture tour

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

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Animal Farm

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Meistererzählungen

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

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

I Ging

in the money markets

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

by Ursula Kampmann

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

a picture tour

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

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.

a pictoure tour

1816: The year without a Summer

Ideal and Reality

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

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Bel-Ami

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

a coin tour

Physiognomic Fragments

– the Birth of Tolerance

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Jane Eyre

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a coin tour

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

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

Published 1948

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

a coin tour

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Milan between 1412 and 1447

for the investor

Stopfkuchen.

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Canterbury Tales

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

The Forgers

Filmduration: 29 minutes

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

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

The city

... since when has money been in existence?

By Katrin Schär

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

a picture tour

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

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

The Decameron

Madame Bovary

The Scarlet Letter

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

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Charles Baudelaire

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Videoduration: 15 minutes

a picture tour

a picture tour

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

eine Bildertour

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

in Classical Antiquity

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

Stiller

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

Pride and Prejudice

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Table talk

- Islamic Money

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

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

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

The Great Gatsby

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

visually explained

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

An analysis on social justice

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

Der Besuch der alten Dame

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

5th Century B.C. Athens

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

a coin-podcast

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

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Clarissa Harlowe

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

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

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

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

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

Self-portrait

Effi Briest

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

a picture tour

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

a chart service for the investor

a picture tour

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Walden or Life in the Woods

Mrs Jenny Treibel

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

of the MoneyMuseum

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

The Turn of the Screw

Filmduration: 34 minutes

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

- Respectable and Trustworthy

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

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Master Tales

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

Master Tales

Brigitta and other tales

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Fahrenheit 451

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Wuthering Heights

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

Collected Fairy Tales

Filmduration: 20 minutes

The Martian Chronicles

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

a chart service for the investor

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

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

Sense and Sensibility

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

by Peter Wolf

- from the Vikings until today

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

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

a picture tour

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

The golden Age / Dream Days

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

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

a picture tour

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

a coin tour

Great Expectations

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Treasure Island

Conversation Book

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Germinal

... on justice and freedom of action

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Four books on measurement

Money defined in seven categories

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

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

a coin podcast

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

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

Tewje, the Milkman

AudioGuide Roman Republic

... and its Relation to Money

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Who wanted the crusades?

Robinson Crusoe

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

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

Vanity Fair

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

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

Get an answer in 90 seconds

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

© Andreas Platthaus

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

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

Holland in the 17th century

- the Basis for Everyday Money

a video podcast

Filmduration: 72 minutes

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Sonnets

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

J. R. R. Tolkien

Les Misérables

Satyricon

The Beautiful and the Damned

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

The poor man in Tockenburg

by Harald Wessbecher

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Short video on how to attain it

Max Havelaar

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

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

a coin tour

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

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

of Switzerland.

... and its consequences

The Maltese Falcon

by Herbert George Wells

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

a video podcast

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

a picture tour

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

by Robert Schneebeli

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

By Günter Hoffmann

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Erewhon

a coin tour

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

a picture tour

Moby Dick

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

Youth without God

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

a coin tour

The Idiot

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Carmen

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

The first opportunity to handle money …

a picture tour

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

a coin tour

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

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

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Don Quixote

a coin tour

a video podcast

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

by Carol Schwyzer

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Filmduration: 39 minutes

New Atlas, 1710

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Consolation of Philosophy

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

A short statement

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The sea wolf

a coin tour

Aldous Huxley

- Money in different Forms

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Introduction Roman Republic

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Old Goriot

Voltaire and Rousseau

of the MoneyMuseum

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

a picture tour

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

two examples

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

Middlemarch

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

a coin tour

a video podcast

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