archive of documents

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

in Classical Antiquity

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

Thus spoke Zarathustra

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

a picture tour

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Bel-Ami

Der Steppenwolf

two examples

The city

Filmduration: 52 minutes

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Youth without God

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

AudioGuide Roman Republic

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Great Expectations

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

ThurnierBuch, 1532

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Brigitta and other tales

Nero‘s Propaganda

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Reminiscences

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

a coin tour

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

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

- Islamic Money

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Pride and Prejudice

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Vanity Fair

Milan between 1412 and 1447

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

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

Published 1948

a coin-podcast

Il Milione

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Collection MoneyMuseum

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

The first opportunity to handle money …

Robinson Crusoe

of Switzerland.

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

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

a picture tour

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Meistererzählungen

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

a picture tour

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

by Marcus Junkelmann

a coin podcast

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

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

Moby Dick

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

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

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

The Martian Chronicles

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

... and its consequences

1816: The year without a Summer

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

a coin tour

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

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

An analysis on social justice

a video podcast

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

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Four books on measurement

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

eine Bildertour

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

Who wanted the crusades?

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

Madame Bovary

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

Charles Baudelaire

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

The golden Age / Dream Days

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

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

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

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

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Erewhon

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

Walden or Life in the Woods

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

a picture tour

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

a chart service for the investor

By Katrin Schär

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

of the MoneyMuseum

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

by Lukas M. Schneider

of the MoneyMuseum

The poor man in Tockenburg

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

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

Clarissa Harlowe

Master Tales

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

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

a video podcast

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

a coin tour

Master Tales

by Ursula Kampmann

a coin tour

The Forgers

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

of the MoneyMuseum

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Old Goriot

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

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

Gotha numaria, 1730

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Max Havelaar

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

by Robert Schneebeli

Money defined in seven categories

A short statement

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

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

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

by Harald Wessbecher

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Meistererzählungen

by Carol Schwyzer

The medieval world order

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Scarlet Letter

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

a picture tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

– the Birth of Tolerance

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

a coin tour

Consolation of Philosophy

Oblomow

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

by Andreas Urs Sommer

a coin tour

a coin tour

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

a picture tour

a picture tour

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

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

Middlemarch

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

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

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Filmduration: 21 minutes

a coin tour

The Idiot

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

a video podcast

a picture tour

publiziert 1716

Introduction Roman Republic

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

I Ging

Germinal

a picture tour

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

The Beautiful and the Damned

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

A successful concept for the investor

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

a video podcast

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

A report from Ruanda

5th Century B.C. Athens

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

Stiller

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

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

Don Quixote

On Human Relations

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

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

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Canterbury Tales

Table talk

Ideal and Reality

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

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Tewje, the Milkman

for the investor

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

by Peter Wolf

Physiognomic Fragments

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

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

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Aldous Huxley

© Andreas Platthaus

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Effi Briest

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

a chart service for the investor

The sea wolf

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

a picture tour

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

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

Treasure Island

a coin tour

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

A Christmas Carol

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Radetzkymarsch

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

Holland in the 17th century

by Herbert George Wells

The Turn of the Screw

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

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

Animal Farm

- The Yen

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Filmduration: 32 minutes

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Fahrenheit 451

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

15 stories

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Change of Climate as trigger

Filmduration: 7 minutes

... since when has money been in existence?

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

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

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

- from the Vikings until today

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Satyricon

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

... on justice and freedom of action

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

New Atlas, 1710

Mrs Jenny Treibel

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

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

Self-portrait

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

a coin tour

Get an answer in 90 seconds

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Sense and Sensibility

a coin tour

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

of the MoneyMuseum

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Short video on how to attain it

Voltaire and Rousseau

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

a coin tour

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

... and its Relation to Money

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

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

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

The Decameron

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

a view from history

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

- Money in different Forms

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

By Günter Hoffmann

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

a coin tour

a picture tour

a picture tour

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

Conversation Book

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

by Dagmar Lorenz

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

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

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

visually explained

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

The Great Gatsby

Collected Fairy Tales

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Filmduration: 34 minutes

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

a pictoure tour

Carmen

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

Sonnets

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Les Misérables

a picture tour

a coin tour

The Maltese Falcon

in the money markets

Wuthering Heights

Stopfkuchen.

Jane Eyre

Horse Chariot and Arethusa