Digging in the archive

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

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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

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

New Atlas, 1710

Sense and Sensibility

The Beautiful and the Damned

Der Steppenwolf

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

a coin tour

Money defined in seven categories

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

The sea wolf

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

a video podcast

a coin tour

AudioGuide Roman Republic

a coin tour

a picture tour

Treasure Island

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

... on justice and freedom of action

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Il Milione

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Four books on measurement

eine Bildertour

Mrs Jenny Treibel

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

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

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

15 stories

publiziert 1716

Filmduration: 23 minutes

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

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

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

Aldous Huxley

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

... and its consequences

a coin tour

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

Pride and Prejudice

Animal Farm

The Turn of the Screw

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

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

I Ging

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

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

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

a picture tour

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

Vanity Fair

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Radetzkymarsch

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

Table talk

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

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

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

Consolation of Philosophy

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a view from history

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Carmen

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

Videoduration: 15 minutes

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

by Lukas M. Schneider

of the MoneyMuseum

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

A report from Ruanda

a chart service for the investor

a video podcast

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

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

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

a picture tour

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

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

Filmduration: 39 minutes

a coin tour

Filmduration: 7 minutes

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

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

a picture tour

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Stiller

Change of Climate as trigger

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

Satyricon

Filmduration: 29 minutes

The Forgers

a picture tour

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

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

An analysis on social justice

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

of the MoneyMuseum

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Oblomow

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

a coin tour

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

The medieval world order

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin podcast

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Meistererzählungen

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

Meistererzählungen

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

a pictoure tour

Stopfkuchen.

a coin tour

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

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Brigitta and other tales

The city

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

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Clarissa Harlowe

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

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

a picture tour

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Middlemarch

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

a chart service for the investor

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

5th Century B.C. Athens

Filmduration: 32 minutes

in the money markets

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Charles Baudelaire

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Erewhon

Physiognomic Fragments

Who wanted the crusades?

a picture tour

by Harald Wessbecher

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

... and its Relation to Money

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a video podcast

a picture tour

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

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

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

... since when has money been in existence?

Youth without God

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Fahrenheit 451

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Madame Bovary

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

by Herbert George Wells

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

visually explained

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Reminiscences

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Wuthering Heights

of Switzerland.

Max Havelaar

by Dagmar Lorenz

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

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

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

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

a coin tour

Don Quixote

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Collected Fairy Tales

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Holland in the 17th century

- Money in different Forms

two examples

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

Germinal

Filmduration: 34 minutes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Great Gatsby

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

Old Goriot

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

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

The Idiot

A short statement

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Master Tales

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Canterbury Tales

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

- Islamic Money

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

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

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

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

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

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

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

The golden Age / Dream Days

ThurnierBuch, 1532

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

a coin-podcast

Features of the Human Face on Coins

- from the Vikings until today

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

© Andreas Platthaus

a coin tour

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

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

Walden or Life in the Woods

Bel-Ami

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

Conversation Book

By Katrin Schär

Nero‘s Propaganda

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

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

By Günter Hoffmann

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

a picture tour

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

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

Les Misérables

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

in Classical Antiquity

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Effi Briest

The Decameron

Short video on how to attain it

a coin tour

a picture tour

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Gotha numaria, 1730

Filmduration: 52 minutes

a coin tour

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

The Martian Chronicles

by Andreas Urs Sommer

The first opportunity to handle money …

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Voltaire and Rousseau

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

A successful concept for the investor

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

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

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

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

Moby Dick

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Collection MoneyMuseum

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

by Peter Wolf

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

a picture tour

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

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Introduction Roman Republic

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

A Christmas Carol

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

a picture tour

Master Tales

1816: The year without a Summer

The Maltese Falcon

Jane Eyre

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Published 1948

a picture tour

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

by Robert Schneebeli

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

by Ursula Kampmann

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Robinson Crusoe

Sonnets

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

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

Great Expectations

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

On Human Relations

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

a video podcast

Ideal and Reality

a coin tour

Self-portrait

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

a picture tour

a coin tour

- The Yen

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

– the Birth of Tolerance

by Marcus Junkelmann

The Scarlet Letter

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

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

Tewje, the Milkman

for the investor

by Carol Schwyzer

a picture tour

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

The poor man in Tockenburg

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