Digging in the archive

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

Conversation Book

Introduction Roman Republic

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

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Robinson Crusoe

The city

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

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

Charles Baudelaire

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

a coin tour

publiziert 1716

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

... on justice and freedom of action

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

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

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Consolation of Philosophy

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

visually explained

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

A short statement

a video podcast

Filmduration: 32 minutes

5th Century B.C. Athens

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Dagmar Lorenz

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

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

By Katrin Schär

Short video on how to attain it

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

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

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

a video podcast

The Decameron

by Peter Wolf

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

a coin tour

Published 1948

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Don Quixote

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a video podcast

Clarissa Harlowe

a picture tour

Madame Bovary

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

15 stories

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Holland in the 17th century

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

a picture tour

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

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

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Effi Briest

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The sea wolf

a coin tour

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Who wanted the crusades?

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Canterbury Tales

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Germinal

Master Tales

a picture tour

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

by Ursula Kampmann

a chart service for the investor

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

a picture tour

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

Animal Farm

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

by Carol Schwyzer

The Beautiful and the Damned

by Herbert George Wells

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

The Forgers

Filmduration: 72 minutes

a picture tour

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

A successful concept for the investor

beautiful High Relief Coinage

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

Middlemarch

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

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

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

a coin tour

The Maltese Falcon

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Bel-Ami

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

by Lukas M. Schneider

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

A Christmas Carol

- from the Vikings until today

a picture tour

By Günter Hoffmann

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

New Atlas, 1710

for the investor

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Tewje, the Milkman

Treasure Island

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

two examples

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

of the MoneyMuseum

a pictoure tour

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

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

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

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

Youth without God

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

of the MoneyMuseum

AudioGuide Roman Republic

The Scarlet Letter

Sense and Sensibility

a coin tour

Master Tales

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Jane Eyre

by Robert Schneebeli

a chart service for the investor

Radetzkymarsch

a picture tour

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Old Goriot

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

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

Physiognomic Fragments

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

Walden or Life in the Woods

Table talk

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Stiller

Nero‘s Propaganda

a view from history

Carmen

- Respectable and Trustworthy

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

Les Misérables

a picture tour

a coin tour

The Turn of the Screw

1816: The year without a Summer

Filmduration: 29 minutes

- The Yen

Der Steppenwolf

The Great Gatsby

Il Milione

a coin podcast

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

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

© Andreas Platthaus

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

in the money markets

a picture tour

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

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

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

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

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

Pride and Prejudice

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

a coin tour

a picture tour

eine Bildertour

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Collected Fairy Tales

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

On Human Relations

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

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

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

... since when has money been in existence?

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

Ideal and Reality

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Satyricon

a picture tour

The Martian Chronicles

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

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

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

... and its consequences

Vanity Fair

A report from Ruanda

Moby Dick

The medieval world order

Self-portrait

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Great Expectations

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Stopfkuchen.

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

a coin tour

An analysis on social justice

Filmduration: 20 minutes

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

The poor man in Tockenburg

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

a coin tour

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Max Havelaar

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

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

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Oblomow

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

The golden Age / Dream Days

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Sonnets

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

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

Voltaire and Rousseau

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

a picture tour

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

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Filmduration: 23 minutes

a coin tour

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

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

a video podcast

The Idiot

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

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

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Meistererzählungen

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Fahrenheit 451

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

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

Money defined in seven categories

Gotha numaria, 1730

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

a picture tour

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

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

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

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

- Money in different Forms

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

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

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

Meistererzählungen

Four books on measurement

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

a coin tour

of Switzerland.

in Classical Antiquity

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

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

a picture tour

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

Wuthering Heights

– the Birth of Tolerance

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

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

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

by Harald Wessbecher

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

a coin-podcast

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Filmduration: 39 minutes

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

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

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

of the MoneyMuseum

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a coin tour

of the MoneyMuseum

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a picture tour

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

- Islamic Money

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Brigitta and other tales

a coin tour

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

I Ging

Collection MoneyMuseum

Reminiscences

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

Change of Climate as trigger

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Erewhon

... and its Relation to Money

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a coin tour

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

The first opportunity to handle money …

Aldous Huxley

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

a coin tour

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