Digging in the archive

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

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

a picture tour

by Herbert George Wells

in the money markets

a coin tour

of the MoneyMuseum

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

I Ging

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

J. R. R. Tolkien

The city

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

... and its consequences

by Andreas Urs Sommer

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

a picture tour

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

The golden Age / Dream Days

by Peter Wolf

Filmduration: 7 minutes

- Money in different Forms

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

New Atlas, 1710

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

- Islamic Money

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

by Robert Schneebeli

Thus spoke Zarathustra

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

a coin tour

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

a coin tour

a picture tour

a picture tour

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Nero‘s Propaganda

The Turn of the Screw

Radetzkymarsch

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

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Conversation Book

Milan between 1412 and 1447

a picture tour

by Dagmar Lorenz

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

The sea wolf

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

visually explained

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

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

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

in Classical Antiquity

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

The poor man in Tockenburg

Short video on how to attain it

a coin tour

Reminiscences

The Forgers

- from the Vikings until today

a coin tour

Table talk

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

The Martian Chronicles

eine Bildertour

Who wanted the crusades?

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

of the MoneyMuseum

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

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

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

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

a coin tour

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

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Clarissa Harlowe

a video podcast

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

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

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

A Christmas Carol

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

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

Sonnets

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

a picture tour

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

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

a picture tour

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Erewhon

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

a picture tour

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Master Tales

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Ideal and Reality

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

Middlemarch

a coin tour

beautiful High Relief Coinage

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

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

On Human Relations

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

The medieval world order

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

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

- The Yen

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

© Andreas Platthaus

Der Steppenwolf

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

The Scarlet Letter

a chart service for the investor

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Meistererzählungen

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

By Katrin Schär

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

The Decameron

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

a coin tour

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

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

Robinson Crusoe

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

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

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

of Switzerland.

Canterbury Tales

A report from Ruanda

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

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

Filmduration: 20 minutes

A short statement

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

for the investor

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

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

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

a video podcast

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

1816: The year without a Summer

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

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

Don Quixote

Vanity Fair

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

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

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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

by Carol Schwyzer

Pride and Prejudice

Physiognomic Fragments

Oblomow

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Les Misérables

of the MoneyMuseum

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

Sense and Sensibility

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

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

... and its Relation to Money

Get an answer in 90 seconds

a picture tour

a coin tour

Aldous Huxley

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

a chart service for the investor

Charles Baudelaire

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

15 stories

Walden or Life in the Woods

Self-portrait

Effi Briest

Voltaire and Rousseau

Stopfkuchen.

a coin tour

Youth without God

Master Tales

of the MoneyMuseum

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

by Ursula Kampmann

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

Moby Dick

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Videoduration: 15 minutes

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

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

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

a coin tour

The first opportunity to handle money …

a view from history

by Lukas M. Schneider

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

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

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Carmen

a pictoure tour

two examples

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

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

a coin tour

a coin-podcast

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

Gotha numaria, 1730

Treasure Island

Brigitta and other tales

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

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Filmduration: 39 minutes

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a coin tour

... since when has money been in existence?

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

Satyricon

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Stiller

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

financial markets and the virtuality of values

- the Basis for Everyday Money

a picture tour

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

Filmduration: 52 minutes

a picture tour

The Idiot

Wuthering Heights

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Collected Fairy Tales

Il Milione

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Der Besuch der alten Dame

The Maltese Falcon

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Tewje, the Milkman

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

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

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Collection MoneyMuseum

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

Four books on measurement

Filmduration: 34 minutes

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

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

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

a picture tour

a video podcast

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

The Great Gatsby

Madame Bovary

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Animal Farm

a coin tour

Jane Eyre

... on justice and freedom of action

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

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

a video podcast

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

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

The Beautiful and the Damned

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

By Günter Hoffmann

Fahrenheit 451

of the MoneyMuseum

by Harald Wessbecher

publiziert 1716

Introduction Roman Republic

a picture tour

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

a picture tour

a picture tour

Consolation of Philosophy

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

An analysis on social justice

Old Goriot

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Holland in the 17th century

A successful concept for the investor

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Change of Climate as trigger

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Max Havelaar

Great Expectations

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

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

Published 1948

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

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

– the Birth of Tolerance

Money defined in seven categories

a coin tour

Germinal

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

Bel-Ami

a coin podcast

Meistererzählungen

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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