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

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Filmduration: 23 minutes

a coin tour

a view from history

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Voltaire and Rousseau

Ideal and Reality

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Walden or Life in the Woods

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

Conversation Book

a coin tour

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

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

Der Steppenwolf

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

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

Bel-Ami

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

A report from Ruanda

by Ursula Kampmann

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

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

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

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

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

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

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

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

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

of the MoneyMuseum

a chart service for the investor

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

- from the Vikings until today

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

Get an answer in 90 seconds

in the money markets

Carmen

Les Misérables

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

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

- The Yen

a coin podcast

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

two examples

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

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

Germinal

- Islamic Money

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

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

The first opportunity to handle money …

The Scarlet Letter

Introduction Roman Republic

Middlemarch

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

The Forgers

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Pride and Prejudice

Max Havelaar

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

The sea wolf

a coin tour

Brigitta and other tales

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

a picture tour

Sense and Sensibility

a video podcast

a coin tour

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

a picture tour

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Effi Briest

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

A successful concept for the investor

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

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

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

a coin tour

The Turn of the Screw

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

a coin tour

Stiller

Collection MoneyMuseum

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Fahrenheit 451

a coin-podcast

Madame Bovary

Stopfkuchen.

On Human Relations

ThurnierBuch, 1532

by Marcus Junkelmann

5th Century B.C. Athens

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Canterbury Tales

Aldous Huxley

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

... and its Relation to Money

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

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

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

a coin tour

Radetzkymarsch

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

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

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

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

Animal Farm

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Reminiscences

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Mrs Jenny Treibel

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Self-portrait

Thus spoke Zarathustra

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Vanity Fair

A short statement

Youth without God

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

- the Basis for Everyday Money

of the MoneyMuseum

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Collected Fairy Tales

a podcast of the year in 1527

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Moby Dick

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

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Filmduration: 21 minutes

... and its consequences

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

I Ging

Meistererzählungen

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Consolation of Philosophy

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

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

by Andreas Urs Sommer

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

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Four books on measurement

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

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

A Christmas Carol

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

The poor man in Tockenburg

a picture tour

Short video on how to attain it

Holland in the 17th century

a picture tour

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

a video podcast

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

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

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

a coin tour

a picture tour

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

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

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

a video podcast

Milan between 1412 and 1447

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

Treasure Island

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

The golden Age / Dream Days

The Beautiful and the Damned

Der Besuch der alten Dame

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

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

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

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

The Idiot

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

1816: The year without a Summer

The medieval world order

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a picture tour

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

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

Old Goriot

The Maltese Falcon

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

a coin tour

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Great Expectations

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

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

by Peter Wolf

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Change of Climate as trigger

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

a picture tour

a coin tour

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

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

in Classical Antiquity

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

By Katrin Schär

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

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

The Decameron

Charles Baudelaire

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

a picture tour

visually explained

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

Published 1948

Satyricon

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

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

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

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

by Carol Schwyzer

a coin tour

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

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

a coin tour

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

Sonnets

Videoduration: 15 minutes

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Who wanted the crusades?

Master Tales

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

a picture tour

© Andreas Platthaus

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

a coin tour

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

The Great Gatsby

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

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

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

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

a picture tour

Il Milione

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

eine Bildertour

AudioGuide Roman Republic

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

New Atlas, 1710

Physiognomic Fragments

Wuthering Heights

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Table talk

by Lukas M. Schneider

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

a picture tour

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

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

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Master Tales

Oblomow

By Günter Hoffmann

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

Filmduration: 20 minutes

a pictoure tour

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

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

Don Quixote

Meistererzählungen

Clarissa Harlowe

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

a picture tour

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

of Switzerland.

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Money defined in seven categories

a coin tour

by Harald Wessbecher

for the investor

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

15 stories

... since when has money been in existence?

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Robinson Crusoe

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

by Robert Schneebeli

Filmduration: 34 minutes

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

a chart service for the investor

a video podcast

of the MoneyMuseum

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Features of the Human Face on Coins

The city

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Erewhon

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Jane Eyre

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

a picture tour

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

- Money in different Forms

by Dagmar Lorenz

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Gotha numaria, 1730

The Martian Chronicles

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

by Herbert George Wells

Tewje, the Milkman

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

2-minute video from the series "success stories"