archive of documents

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

By Günter Hoffmann

Bel-Ami

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

by Peter Wolf

a video podcast

a coin tour

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

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Oblomow

a picture tour

Clarissa Harlowe

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

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

- Respectable and Trustworthy

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

The medieval world order

a chart service for the investor

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

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

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Der Besuch der alten Dame

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

a picture tour

New Atlas, 1710

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Thus spoke Zarathustra

a coin podcast

Stiller

Satyricon

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

Fahrenheit 451

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

The Scarlet Letter

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Sonnets

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

Gotha numaria, 1730

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Les Misérables

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Table talk

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Moby Dick

Master Tales

... on justice and freedom of action

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

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

Wuthering Heights

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

Stopfkuchen.

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

a coin tour

a coin tour

Videoduration: 15 minutes

A report from Ruanda

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

Who wanted the crusades?

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

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

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

The Forgers

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Reminiscences

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Vanity Fair

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

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

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

Canterbury Tales

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Don Quixote

A Christmas Carol

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

by Herbert George Wells

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

a picture tour

a picture tour

The Turn of the Screw

The Idiot

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

eine Bildertour

beautiful High Relief Coinage

a picture tour

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

1816: The year without a Summer

Old Goriot

By Katrin Schär

Change of Climate as trigger

- from the Vikings until today

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

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

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

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

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

– the Birth of Tolerance

Erewhon

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

- The Yen

Filmduration: 29 minutes

by Harald Wessbecher

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Tewje, the Milkman

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

a coin tour

Collection MoneyMuseum

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Introduction Roman Republic

a picture tour

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

Money defined in seven categories

by Robert Schneebeli

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

The Maltese Falcon

a picture tour

a coin tour

... and its consequences

a coin tour

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Charles Baudelaire

publiziert 1716

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Pride and Prejudice

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

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

A successful concept for the investor

by Andreas Urs Sommer

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

a coin-podcast

a view from history

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

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

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

The Beautiful and the Damned

Treasure Island

a coin tour

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

Short video on how to attain it

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

The Decameron

Madame Bovary

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

The sea wolf

by Lukas M. Schneider

a coin tour

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

Max Havelaar

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

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

Filmduration: 20 minutes

a video podcast

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Brigitta and other tales

A short statement

The golden Age / Dream Days

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

for the investor

© Andreas Platthaus

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Consolation of Philosophy

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Collected Fairy Tales

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

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

- Islamic Money

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

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Published 1948

a coin tour

a picture tour

by Ursula Kampmann

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

a chart service for the investor

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

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

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

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

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

in the money markets

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

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

ThurnierBuch, 1532

by Marcus Junkelmann

... since when has money been in existence?

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Sense and Sensibility

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

Self-portrait

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

Youth without God

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

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

a picture tour

Carmen

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

- Money in different Forms

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Voltaire and Rousseau

of Switzerland.

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

The Martian Chronicles

Middlemarch

15 stories

a coin tour

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

An analysis on social justice

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

The poor man in Tockenburg

Get an answer in 90 seconds

a picture tour

Meistererzählungen

visually explained

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

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

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

Il Milione

Germinal

a video podcast

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

I Ging

a podcast of the year in 1527

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Physiognomic Fragments

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

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

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

of the MoneyMuseum

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

a pictoure tour

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

a picture tour

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

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

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

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Der Steppenwolf

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

two examples

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

The city

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a coin tour

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Nero‘s Propaganda

Jane Eyre

a picture tour

Walden or Life in the Woods

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

The Great Gatsby

Aldous Huxley

... and its Relation to Money

a coin tour

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

in Classical Antiquity

of the MoneyMuseum

Animal Farm

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

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

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Radetzkymarsch

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

a coin tour

Holland in the 17th century

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

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

Conversation Book

Robinson Crusoe

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Ideal and Reality

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

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

by Carol Schwyzer

a picture tour

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Four books on measurement

Effi Briest

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

Meistererzählungen

of the MoneyMuseum

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

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

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

Master Tales

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

a picture tour

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

a video podcast

a picture tour

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

On Human Relations

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

The first opportunity to handle money …

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

Great Expectations

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins