Digging in the archive

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

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

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Radetzkymarsch

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

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

Moby Dick

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

By Katrin Schär

By Günter Hoffmann

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

a chart service for the investor

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Walden or Life in the Woods

a picture tour

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Oblomow

Travel around the World in 80 Days

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The poor man in Tockenburg

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

visually explained

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

Sonnets

Brigitta and other tales

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

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

Ideal and Reality

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

in Classical Antiquity

Robinson Crusoe

Change of Climate as trigger

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

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

The Idiot

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

by Dagmar Lorenz

The Great Gatsby

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Nero‘s Propaganda

Wuthering Heights

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

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

Great Expectations

Filmduration: 39 minutes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Meistererzählungen

a picture tour

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Jane Eyre

a picture tour

a picture tour

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

by Herbert George Wells

Carmen

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

Physiognomic Fragments

The city

Published 1948

a picture tour

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

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

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

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

Videoduration: 15 minutes

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

Satyricon

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

Treasure Island

AudioGuide Roman Republic

a video podcast

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a chart service for the investor

Erewhon

... since when has money been in existence?

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Il Milione

a picture tour

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

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Short video on how to attain it

a coin tour

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Features of the Human Face on Coins

The Martian Chronicles

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

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

The Turn of the Screw

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Youth without God

A Christmas Carol

© Andreas Platthaus

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Master Tales

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Charles Baudelaire

– the Birth of Tolerance

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

The medieval world order

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Introduction Roman Republic

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Consolation of Philosophy

- The Yen

a coin tour

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Animal Farm

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

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a picture tour

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

The Maltese Falcon

of Switzerland.

Pride and Prejudice

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

The Scarlet Letter

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Sense and Sensibility

AudioGuide Roman Republic

A short statement

Filmduration: 20 minutes

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

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Vanity Fair

a coin tour

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

of the MoneyMuseum

The first opportunity to handle money …

a coin tour

Mrs Jenny Treibel

5th Century B.C. Athens

Bel-Ami

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

a coin tour

a picture tour

a coin tour

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Master Tales

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

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

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

financial markets and the virtuality of values

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

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

a coin tour

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

by Robert Schneebeli

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

The Decameron

Meistererzählungen

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Effi Briest

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Collected Fairy Tales

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

a coin tour

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Don Quixote

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

of the MoneyMuseum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a view from history

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

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

in the money markets

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

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Les Misérables

Fahrenheit 451

Money defined in seven categories

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

Aldous Huxley

a picture tour

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

a coin-podcast

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Filmduration: 34 minutes

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

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

Filmduration: 21 minutes

New Atlas, 1710

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Reminiscences

beautiful High Relief Coinage

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

Voltaire and Rousseau

Self-portrait

a picture tour

a coin tour

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Madame Bovary

ThurnierBuch, 1532

a video podcast

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

... on justice and freedom of action

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

- Money in different Forms

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

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

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

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

Four books on measurement

Stiller

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

- Respectable and Trustworthy

of the MoneyMuseum

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

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

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

of the MoneyMuseum

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

On Human Relations

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

two examples

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

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

I Ging

a video podcast

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

a picture tour

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

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

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Old Goriot

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

A report from Ruanda

a picture tour

Stopfkuchen.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Beautiful and the Damned

Collection MoneyMuseum

for the investor

a picture tour

15 stories

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a picture tour

Clarissa Harlowe

a picture tour

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

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Middlemarch

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Table talk

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

a coin tour

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

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

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

by Ursula Kampmann

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

by Carol Schwyzer

a coin tour

- Islamic Money

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Germinal

eine Bildertour

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Who wanted the crusades?

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

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Max Havelaar

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

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

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

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Canterbury Tales

The Forgers

by Peter Wolf

Tewje, the Milkman

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

a coin tour

a video podcast

... and its Relation to Money

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

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

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

publiziert 1716

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

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

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

a coin tour

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

Der Steppenwolf

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

A successful concept for the investor

... and its consequences

by Andreas Urs Sommer

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

by Harald Wessbecher

Filmduration: 7 minutes

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

An analysis on social justice

Holland in the 17th century

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

1816: The year without a Summer

Filmduration: 52 minutes

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

of the MoneyMuseum

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

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

a coin podcast

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

a pictoure tour

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

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

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Gotha numaria, 1730

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

- from the Vikings until today

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

The sea wolf

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Conversation Book

a coin tour

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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