Digging in the archive

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

visually explained

a coin tour

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

Vanity Fair

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Who wanted the crusades?

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

By Katrin Schär

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmduration: 32 minutes

- Islamic Money

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

A Christmas Carol

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Moby Dick

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

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

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

Satyricon

Sense and Sensibility

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Milan between 1412 and 1447

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

publiziert 1716

eine Bildertour

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

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Filmduration: 21 minutes

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

Table talk

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

The first opportunity to handle money …

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

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

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

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

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

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

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

Consolation of Philosophy

a coin tour

a chart service for the investor

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Canterbury Tales

The Martian Chronicles

two examples

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

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

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

a video podcast

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

New Atlas, 1710

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

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

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

a picture tour

The sea wolf

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

a video podcast

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Madame Bovary

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

Der Besuch der alten Dame

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

The medieval world order

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

of the MoneyMuseum

The Great Gatsby

The poor man in Tockenburg

Tewje, the Milkman

The Forgers

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

a picture tour

a picture tour

Filmduration: 23 minutes

a coin tour

a coin podcast

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Voltaire and Rousseau

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

The Maltese Falcon

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

The golden Age / Dream Days

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

a coin tour

a view from history

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Published 1948

Great Expectations

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

for the investor

Filmduration: 52 minutes

a pictoure tour

Don Quixote

The Turn of the Screw

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Germinal

Four books on measurement

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a coin tour

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

a picture tour

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Effi Briest

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

© Andreas Platthaus

Short video on how to attain it

a coin tour

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

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

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Bel-Ami

Master Tales

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Il Milione

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

... on justice and freedom of action

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

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

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Max Havelaar

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Treasure Island

Features of the Human Face on Coins

a picture tour

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

Pride and Prejudice

Radetzkymarsch

Nero‘s Propaganda

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

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

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Brigitta and other tales

of the MoneyMuseum

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

a picture tour

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

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

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

a picture tour

The Beautiful and the Damned

The Decameron

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

of Switzerland.

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.

Clarissa Harlowe

Youth without God

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Jane Eyre

by Lukas M. Schneider

Old Goriot

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

a coin tour

... and its Relation to Money

Aldous Huxley

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Charles Baudelaire

I Ging

a coin tour

The Idiot

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

... and its consequences

The city

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Mrs Jenny Treibel

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

in Classical Antiquity

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Stopfkuchen.

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

A report from Ruanda

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

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

1816: The year without a Summer

- Money in different Forms

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

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

15 stories

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Les Misérables

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

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

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

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

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

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

Oblomow

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

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

a video podcast

5th Century B.C. Athens

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Gotha numaria, 1730

a picture tour

Middlemarch

in the money markets

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Erewhon

Animal Farm

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

a picture tour

of the MoneyMuseum

of the MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

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

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Walden or Life in the Woods

A short statement

by Carol Schwyzer

a picture tour

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

- from the Vikings until today

Self-portrait

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

a coin tour

by Dagmar Lorenz

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

by Herbert George Wells

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Carmen

An analysis on social justice

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

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

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

a coin-podcast

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Robinson Crusoe

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Der Steppenwolf

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

Filmduration: 20 minutes

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

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

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

a picture tour

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

- Respectable and Trustworthy

ThurnierBuch, 1532

by Peter Wolf

Introduction Roman Republic

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a chart service for the investor

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

By Günter Hoffmann

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

A successful concept for the investor

Money defined in seven categories

Meistererzählungen

beautiful High Relief Coinage

by Harald Wessbecher

by Marcus Junkelmann

Sonnets

a coin tour

Master Tales

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

a picture tour

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

a coin tour

Collected Fairy Tales

Fahrenheit 451

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

a coin tour

a video podcast

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

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

On Human Relations

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

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

Get an answer in 90 seconds

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Videoduration: 15 minutes

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

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

Change of Climate as trigger

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Collection MoneyMuseum

Ideal and Reality

a picture tour

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

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

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

a coin tour

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

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

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Stiller

Meistererzählungen

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

Holland in the 17th century

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

- The Yen

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Reminiscences

by Robert Schneebeli

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

a coin tour

Conversation Book

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

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

Wuthering Heights

a coin tour

of the MoneyMuseum

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

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Filmduration: 34 minutes

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

The Scarlet Letter

... since when has money been in existence?

Physiognomic Fragments

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

by Ursula Kampmann