archive of documents

Holland in the 17th century

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Meistererzählungen

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

The city

a coin tour

Great Expectations

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

- from the Vikings until today

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Reminiscences

Ideal and Reality

© Andreas Platthaus

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

a coin tour

a chart service for the investor

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

eine Bildertour

... on justice and freedom of action

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Nero‘s Propaganda

a picture tour

a picture tour

Change of Climate as trigger

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

a coin tour

two examples

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

15 stories

a coin tour

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

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

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

Pride and Prejudice

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

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

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

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Carmen

Stiller

The Forgers

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

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

Walden or Life in the Woods

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

in Classical Antiquity

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

The first opportunity to handle money …

Table talk

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Bel-Ami

a coin podcast

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

a coin tour

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

by Herbert George Wells

Robinson Crusoe

Vanity Fair

The golden Age / Dream Days

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

AudioGuide Roman Republic

for the investor

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

... since when has money been in existence?

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

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

Master Tales

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Short video on how to attain it

Les Misérables

Conversation Book

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

The Beautiful and the Damned

Fahrenheit 451

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

a video podcast

1816: The year without a Summer

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

a picture tour

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Brigitta and other tales

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

J. R. R. Tolkien

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

a picture tour

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Youth without God

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Sonnets

Don Quixote

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

a coin tour

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

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

Animal Farm

Wuthering Heights

by Peter Wolf

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

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

Clarissa Harlowe

AudioGuide Roman Republic

a picture tour

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Physiognomic Fragments

publiziert 1716

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

a coin tour

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Gotha numaria, 1730

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Money defined in seven categories

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a picture tour

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Stopfkuchen.

a coin tour

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

The Turn of the Screw

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

New Atlas, 1710

a picture tour

Germinal

a video podcast

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

a picture tour

of the MoneyMuseum

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

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

Aldous Huxley

By Katrin Schär

By Günter Hoffmann

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

Master Tales

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

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

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

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a video podcast

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

of the MoneyMuseum

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

An analysis on social justice

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

The Great Gatsby

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

- Money in different Forms

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Middlemarch

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

in the money markets

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Filmduration: 20 minutes

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

A Christmas Carol

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Consolation of Philosophy

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

Erewhon

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Voltaire and Rousseau

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

a coin tour

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

Collection MoneyMuseum

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Meistererzählungen

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

a chart service for the investor

Features of the Human Face on Coins

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

The poor man in Tockenburg

of Switzerland.

a coin tour

Effi Briest

Old Goriot

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

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

a picture tour

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

Self-portrait

Madame Bovary

The Scarlet Letter

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Filmduration: 52 minutes

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

a coin tour

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

Radetzkymarsch

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

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

The Martian Chronicles

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

A short statement

by Carol Schwyzer

The Idiot

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

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

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

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

a coin tour

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

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

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

a coin-podcast

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

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

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

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

A report from Ruanda

Published 1948

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a picture tour

The Decameron

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

of the MoneyMuseum

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Canterbury Tales

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

Il Milione

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

a picture tour

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The medieval world order

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Introduction Roman Republic

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

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

Treasure Island

a coin tour

A successful concept for the investor

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Filmduration: 7 minutes

a picture tour

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

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

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

... and its consequences

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

Sense and Sensibility

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

I Ging

Jane Eyre

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

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- Islamic Money

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

Charles Baudelaire

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

a pictoure tour

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

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

Who wanted the crusades?

Milan between 1412 and 1447

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

by Ursula Kampmann

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

visually explained

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

- The Yen

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

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

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

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

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

a picture tour

The Maltese Falcon

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

a coin tour

Max Havelaar

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

by Robert Schneebeli

a picture tour

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

Oblomow

- Respectable and Trustworthy

by Lukas M. Schneider

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Satyricon

Der Steppenwolf

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

5th Century B.C. Athens

a view from history

Collected Fairy Tales

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

a coin tour

... and its Relation to Money

of the MoneyMuseum

The sea wolf

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

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

ThurnierBuch, 1532

a picture tour

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Moby Dick

by Harald Wessbecher

a video podcast

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

On Human Relations

Four books on measurement

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Tewje, the Milkman