archive of documents

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

... on justice and freedom of action

Introduction Roman Republic

By Günter Hoffmann

Der Steppenwolf

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

The Turn of the Screw

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Collected Fairy Tales

Get an answer in 90 seconds

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

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Oblomow

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

a coin tour

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Self-portrait

- Money in different Forms

- Respectable and Trustworthy

The sea wolf

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Wuthering Heights

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Charles Baudelaire

The Maltese Falcon

Stiller

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

a coin tour

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

– the Birth of Tolerance

The poor man in Tockenburg

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

Les Misérables

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Il Milione

for the investor

eine Bildertour

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Animal Farm

by Andreas Urs Sommer

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

of Switzerland.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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

Madame Bovary

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

a picture tour

The Great Gatsby

Clarissa Harlowe

1816: The year without a Summer

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

An analysis on social justice

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

... and its Relation to Money

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Short video on how to attain it

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

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

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

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

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

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The first opportunity to handle money …

A report from Ruanda

Robinson Crusoe

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

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

a picture tour

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

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

Old Goriot

The city

Nero‘s Propaganda

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

The Martian Chronicles

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

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

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

Filmduration: 20 minutes

a coin tour

by Marcus Junkelmann

Stopfkuchen.

a coin tour

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

Meistererzählungen

I Ging

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Who wanted the crusades?

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Treasure Island

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Tewje, the Milkman

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

by Carol Schwyzer

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Effi Briest

a picture tour

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

a coin tour

Brigitta and other tales

a chart service for the investor

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

a coin tour

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

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

a picture tour

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

by Robert Schneebeli

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

a picture tour

two examples

Walden or Life in the Woods

a coin tour

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

The Idiot

a coin podcast

of the MoneyMuseum

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

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

Thus spoke Zarathustra

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

New Atlas, 1710

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

- The Yen

The medieval world order

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

Four books on measurement

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

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

by Harald Wessbecher

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

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

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

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

... since when has money been in existence?

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

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

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

Der Besuch der alten Dame

of the MoneyMuseum

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

in Classical Antiquity

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Filmduration: 52 minutes

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

a picture tour

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

a view from history

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Sense and Sensibility

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

Physiognomic Fragments

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

J. R. R. Tolkien

Collection MoneyMuseum

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

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

a video podcast

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Features of the Human Face on Coins

The Forgers

a picture tour

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

a coin tour

a coin-podcast

Carmen

Gotha numaria, 1730

Conversation Book

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Lukas M. Schneider

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

A short statement

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

visually explained

a chart service for the investor

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Master Tales

a picture tour

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Filmduration: 34 minutes

by Herbert George Wells

a coin tour

The Decameron

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

15 stories

Bel-Ami

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

a video podcast

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

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Moby Dick

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

a pictoure tour

Satyricon

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Erewhon

Fahrenheit 451

by Peter Wolf

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

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

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

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

... and its consequences

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

publiziert 1716

Vanity Fair

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Voltaire and Rousseau

Sonnets

Filmduration: 7 minutes

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

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.

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Radetzkymarsch

- from the Vikings until today

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

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

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

a picture tour

Holland in the 17th century

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Great Expectations

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Ideal and Reality

Table talk

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Aldous Huxley

financial markets and the virtuality of values

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

a picture tour

Travel around the World in 80 Days

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

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

© Andreas Platthaus

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

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

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

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Youth without God

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Reminiscences

a picture tour

Master Tales

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

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

On Human Relations

AudioGuide Roman Republic

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

The Scarlet Letter

a video podcast

Mrs Jenny Treibel

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

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

a coin tour

Don Quixote

AudioGuide Roman Republic

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

a picture tour

Middlemarch

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

Consolation of Philosophy

of the MoneyMuseum

Filmduration: 72 minutes

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Meistererzählungen

Germinal

The Beautiful and the Damned

a coin tour

Filmduration: 29 minutes

a coin tour

A successful concept for the investor

Change of Climate as trigger

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

a picture tour

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

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

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

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

by Ursula Kampmann

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

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

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Money defined in seven categories

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

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

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

a picture tour

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

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

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

A Christmas Carol

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

a video podcast

by Dagmar Lorenz

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Max Havelaar

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

By Katrin Schär

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

a coin tour

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Published 1948

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Eyre

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

- the Basis for Everyday Money

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Canterbury Tales

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

in the money markets

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

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

- Islamic Money

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History