archive of documents

– the Birth of Tolerance

a picture tour

AudioGuide Roman Republic

of the MoneyMuseum

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

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

by Harald Wessbecher

... since when has money been in existence?

a pictoure tour

in Classical Antiquity

Bel-Ami

a picture tour

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

- The Yen

The Great Gatsby

Moby Dick

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

a coin tour

a video podcast

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

of Switzerland.

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

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

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Filmduration: 20 minutes

- Money in different Forms

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

© Andreas Platthaus

Canterbury Tales

Effi Briest

The first opportunity to handle money …

Table talk

a coin tour

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

beautiful High Relief Coinage

... on justice and freedom of action

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

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

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

Treasure Island

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Gotha numaria, 1730

Middlemarch

Il Milione

a coin-podcast

The sea wolf

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

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

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

a view from history

of the MoneyMuseum

The poor man in Tockenburg

The city

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

by Peter Wolf

of the MoneyMuseum

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

a picture tour

a picture tour

a video podcast

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

for the investor

by Lukas M. Schneider

I Ging

a video podcast

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

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

visually explained

a coin podcast

1816: The year without a Summer

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

a coin tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

Filmduration: 23 minutes

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

a podcast of the year in 1527

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

A short statement

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Sonnets

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

eine Bildertour

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

Consolation of Philosophy

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Meistererzählungen

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

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Filmduration: 21 minutes

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

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

a coin tour

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

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Vanity Fair

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

The Beautiful and the Damned

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

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Jane Eyre

- Islamic Money

Animal Farm

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

a video podcast

a picture tour

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

in the money markets

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

The Decameron

a picture tour

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

a picture tour

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

a coin tour

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

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

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

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

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

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

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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.

Radetzkymarsch

Money defined in seven categories

... and its Relation to Money

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

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

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?

The Forgers

A successful concept for the investor

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

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

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

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

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Charles Baudelaire

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

Change of Climate as trigger

Brigitta and other tales

Four books on measurement

Conversation Book

Stiller

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

By Günter Hoffmann

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

... and its consequences

a chart service for the investor

Introduction Roman Republic

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Who wanted the crusades?

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

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

The Maltese Falcon

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Aldous Huxley

a coin tour

Meistererzählungen

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Stopfkuchen.

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

Holland in the 17th century

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

ThurnierBuch, 1532

a coin tour

Old Goriot

Max Havelaar

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

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

Youth without God

Filmduration: 7 minutes

by Herbert George Wells

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

15 stories

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Madame Bovary

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Collection MoneyMuseum

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

Erewhon

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

by Carol Schwyzer

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Satyricon

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

a picture tour

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

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

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

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

On Human Relations

Clarissa Harlowe

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

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Carmen

a coin tour

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

Wuthering Heights

The Martian Chronicles

The Scarlet Letter

two examples

by Ursula Kampmann

a picture tour

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

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

a picture tour

Don Quixote

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

Germinal

by Andreas Urs Sommer

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Filmduration: 72 minutes

of the MoneyMuseum

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

financial markets and the virtuality of values

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Ideal and Reality

5th Century B.C. Athens

Der Steppenwolf

The Idiot

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

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

by Marcus Junkelmann

by Robert Schneebeli

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

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

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

The Turn of the Screw

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

The medieval world order

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

a coin tour

Self-portrait

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

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

a coin tour

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

By Katrin Schär

Published 1948

Robinson Crusoe

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Master Tales

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

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

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Tewje, the Milkman

Collected Fairy Tales

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

- from the Vikings until today

Oblomow

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

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

Great Expectations

of the MoneyMuseum

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

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

Videoduration: 15 minutes

A Christmas Carol

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Physiognomic Fragments

a picture tour

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

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

publiziert 1716

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

New Atlas, 1710

An analysis on social justice

Walden or Life in the Woods

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Sense and Sensibility

a coin tour

a coin tour

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

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Fahrenheit 451

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Les Misérables

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

Reminiscences

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

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

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

Short video on how to attain it

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Pride and Prejudice

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Master Tales

a picture tour

A report from Ruanda

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

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

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

- the Basis for Everyday Money

a chart service for the investor

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Voltaire and Rousseau

a coin tour

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

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps