archive of documents

- from the Vikings until today

New Atlas, 1710

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Filmduration: 7 minutes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Charles Baudelaire

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

The city

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

Youth without God

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Consolation of Philosophy

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

by Robert Schneebeli

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

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

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

Bel-Ami

a coin tour

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

a view from history

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Decameron

Effi Briest

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

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

... and its Relation to Money

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

by Herbert George Wells

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

for the investor

© Andreas Platthaus

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

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

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

Filmduration: 23 minutes

a video podcast

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Middlemarch

A successful concept for the investor

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

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Vanity Fair

The Scarlet Letter

Animal Farm

Milan between 1412 and 1447

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Collected Fairy Tales

Robinson Crusoe

Physiognomic Fragments

Walden or Life in the Woods

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Filmduration: 29 minutes

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a coin tour

Der Steppenwolf

Don Quixote

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

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

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

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

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

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

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

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

The sea wolf

- The Yen

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

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Meistererzählungen

Radetzkymarsch

Great Expectations

Meistererzählungen

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

a picture tour

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

AudioGuide Roman Republic

a coin tour

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Thus spoke Zarathustra

a picture tour

Change of Climate as trigger

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

Germinal

1816: The year without a Summer

Nero‘s Propaganda

- Islamic Money

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

by Peter Wolf

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

Master Tales

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

a chart service for the investor

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

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Oblomow

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Pride and Prejudice

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Old Goriot

- the Basis for Everyday Money

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

a picture tour

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Reminiscences

Four books on measurement

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

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

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

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

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

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

The first opportunity to handle money …

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

The Great Gatsby

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

in Classical Antiquity

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

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

Max Havelaar

Brigitta and other tales

Sonnets

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

of the MoneyMuseum

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

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

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Collection MoneyMuseum

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

a picture tour

a coin tour

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Conversation Book

Treasure Island

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

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

Master Tales

Wuthering Heights

Clarissa Harlowe

by Lukas M. Schneider

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

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

Stiller

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

Table talk

a video podcast

by Marcus Junkelmann

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

I Ging

– the Birth of Tolerance

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Sense and Sensibility

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Stopfkuchen.

Filmduration: 52 minutes

a coin-podcast

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

two examples

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

a chart service for the investor

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

by Dagmar Lorenz

... since when has money been in existence?

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

A report from Ruanda

Carmen

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

By Günter Hoffmann

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

Fahrenheit 451

a picture tour

a coin tour

a video podcast

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Forgers

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

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

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Jane Eyre

Canterbury Tales

a coin tour

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

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

of Switzerland.

by Harald Wessbecher

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

a picture tour

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

a coin tour

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

a coin tour

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

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

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Who wanted the crusades?

a coin tour

a picture tour

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

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

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

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

Les Misérables

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Madame Bovary

a picture tour

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Holland in the 17th century

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

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Moby Dick

a coin tour

Ideal and Reality

eine Bildertour

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

The medieval world order

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

A Christmas Carol

a coin tour

Short video on how to attain it

a coin podcast

a coin tour

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Videoduration: 15 minutes

... on justice and freedom of action

The Idiot

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Self-portrait

by Ursula Kampmann

Travel around the World in 80 Days

a video podcast

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

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

in the money markets

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

The Turn of the Screw

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

The golden Age / Dream Days

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

The poor man in Tockenburg

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Tewje, the Milkman

An analysis on social justice

Mrs Jenny Treibel

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

Gotha numaria, 1730

a picture tour

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Aldous Huxley

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Beautiful and the Damned

a coin tour

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

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

- Money in different Forms

a pictoure tour

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

The Maltese Falcon

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

of the MoneyMuseum

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

a picture tour

On Human Relations

by Carol Schwyzer

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

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

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

Money defined in seven categories

The Martian Chronicles

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

... and its consequences

visually explained

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

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

publiziert 1716

Published 1948

a picture tour

15 stories

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

Satyricon

Voltaire and Rousseau

A short statement

Il Milione

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

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

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

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Introduction Roman Republic

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Erewhon

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

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

By Katrin Schär

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

a picture tour