Digging in the archive

Brigitta and other tales

A successful concept for the investor

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Robinson Crusoe

a coin-podcast

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

Videoduration: 15 minutes

a chart service for the investor

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

in the money markets

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

by Peter Wolf

Animal Farm

Reminiscences

... and its consequences

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Master Tales

Old Goriot

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

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

- The Yen

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

by Harald Wessbecher

Effi Briest

by Ursula Kampmann

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Milan between 1412 and 1447

a picture tour

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

by Dagmar Lorenz

by Herbert George Wells

Canterbury Tales

a video podcast

Filmduration: 72 minutes

a picture tour

Radetzkymarsch

Nero‘s Propaganda

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Short video on how to attain it

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Germinal

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

a picture tour

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

by Carol Schwyzer

The city

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

... on justice and freedom of action

Filmduration: 21 minutes

a video podcast

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

a picture tour

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

financial markets and the virtuality of values

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

a picture tour

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

The Martian Chronicles

Physiognomic Fragments

Clarissa Harlowe

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

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

The Beautiful and the Damned

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

a picture tour

Il Milione

The Turn of the Screw

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

The Idiot

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

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

a coin tour

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

a video podcast

1816: The year without a Summer

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Mrs Jenny Treibel

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Who wanted the crusades?

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

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

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

a coin tour

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

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

by Robert Schneebeli

a picture tour

of the MoneyMuseum

Erewhon

Pride and Prejudice

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

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

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Der Steppenwolf

Ideal and Reality

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

Tewje, the Milkman

a coin tour

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

a chart service for the investor

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

Collected Fairy Tales

Bel-Ami

5th Century B.C. Athens

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

- Money in different Forms

Madame Bovary

Collection MoneyMuseum

Oblomow

... and its Relation to Money

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

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

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

The first opportunity to handle money …

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Fahrenheit 451

a coin tour

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

Filmduration: 23 minutes

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

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

publiziert 1716

The medieval world order

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

of the MoneyMuseum

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

a coin tour

A short statement

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

Charles Baudelaire

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Four books on measurement

Jane Eyre

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

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

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

15 stories

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

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

I Ging

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

a coin tour

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

Holland in the 17th century

of the MoneyMuseum

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

The sea wolf

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

Master Tales

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

a picture tour

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

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

a picture tour

Sonnets

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

a coin tour

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Conversation Book

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

two examples

a picture tour

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

By Katrin Schär

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

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

The Maltese Falcon

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

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

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

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Consolation of Philosophy

The Decameron

On Human Relations

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

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Stiller

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

of Switzerland.

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

a pictoure tour

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

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

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

- from the Vikings until today

Change of Climate as trigger

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

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

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

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

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

... since when has money been in existence?

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a video podcast

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

Table talk

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

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

Sense and Sensibility

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

The Forgers

eine Bildertour

The poor man in Tockenburg

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

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

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

a coin tour

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

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

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

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

Introduction Roman Republic

visually explained

by Andreas Urs Sommer

An analysis on social justice

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

a coin podcast

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

a view from history

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

© Andreas Platthaus

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

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

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

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Meistererzählungen

Money defined in seven categories

Stopfkuchen.

in Classical Antiquity

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

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

- Islamic Money

Treasure Island

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

ThurnierBuch, 1532

By Günter Hoffmann

a picture tour

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

The golden Age / Dream Days

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Wuthering Heights

by Marcus Junkelmann

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

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

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

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

Les Misérables

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Great Expectations

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

a podcast of the year in 1527

New Atlas, 1710

Don Quixote

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

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

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

Youth without God

A report from Ruanda

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

Walden or Life in the Woods

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

The Great Gatsby

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

for the investor

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

a picture tour

Gotha numaria, 1730

Published 1948

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

Aldous Huxley

a coin tour

Vanity Fair

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

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

a picture tour

a coin tour

Satyricon

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

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

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Middlemarch

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

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Max Havelaar

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Voltaire and Rousseau

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

The Scarlet Letter

a picture tour

A Christmas Carol

Carmen

a picture tour

of the MoneyMuseum

Meistererzählungen

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

Self-portrait

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Moby Dick

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

a coin tour

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Filmduration: 32 minutes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

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

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

a coin tour

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