archive of documents

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

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Tewje, the Milkman

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

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

Reminiscences

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

Published 1948

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

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

Gotha numaria, 1730

The city

by Peter Wolf

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

a picture tour

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

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Conversation Book

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

AudioGuide Roman Republic

a coin tour

A short statement

a coin podcast

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Ideal and Reality

Don Quixote

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

in the money markets

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Voltaire and Rousseau

15 stories

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

a coin tour

... since when has money been in existence?

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

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

I Ging

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

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

Charles Baudelaire

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

a coin tour

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a chart service for the investor

eine Bildertour

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

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

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

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

a coin tour

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

The Maltese Falcon

The sea wolf

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Canterbury Tales

Holland in the 17th century

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a picture tour

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.

Der Steppenwolf

The Scarlet Letter

Collected Fairy Tales

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

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

Youth without God

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a coin tour

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

Master Tales

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

by Carol Schwyzer

Animal Farm

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

by Herbert George Wells

By Günter Hoffmann

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

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

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

ThurnierBuch, 1532

- The Yen

The Turn of the Screw

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

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

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Meistererzählungen

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Introduction Roman Republic

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

a picture tour

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Filmduration: 21 minutes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

in Classical Antiquity

a coin tour

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

The Idiot

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a picture tour

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Who wanted the crusades?

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

of the MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

The Forgers

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

a chart service for the investor

by Lukas M. Schneider

a picture tour

a coin tour

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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

Sonnets

- from the Vikings until today

of Switzerland.

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Middlemarch

Short video on how to attain it

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

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

© Andreas Platthaus

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

a video podcast

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

a video podcast

a video podcast

Get an answer in 90 seconds

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

Germinal

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Effi Briest

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

The first opportunity to handle money …

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Collection MoneyMuseum

a pictoure tour

Il Milione

... and its Relation to Money

1816: The year without a Summer

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

Money defined in seven categories

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

The Martian Chronicles

by Harald Wessbecher

Filmduration: 52 minutes

by Marcus Junkelmann

a picture tour

by Robert Schneebeli

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

a picture tour

a picture tour

Meistererzählungen

a coin tour

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

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

a coin tour

Vanity Fair

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

A report from Ruanda

Fahrenheit 451

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

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Features of the Human Face on Coins

The Great Gatsby

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

a picture tour

Walden or Life in the Woods

On Human Relations

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

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

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Filmduration: 29 minutes

for the investor

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

The medieval world order

A Christmas Carol

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

publiziert 1716

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

New Atlas, 1710

Moby Dick

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Treasure Island

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

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

Carmen

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

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

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Self-portrait

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

a video podcast

Brigitta and other tales

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

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Bel-Ami

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

The poor man in Tockenburg

Filmduration: 20 minutes

By Katrin Schär

a picture tour

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

by Ursula Kampmann

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

Clarissa Harlowe

A successful concept for the investor

Oblomow

Master Tales

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

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

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

Table talk

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

Old Goriot

Stiller

Les Misérables

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Wuthering Heights

beautiful High Relief Coinage

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

a picture tour

two examples

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

The Beautiful and the Damned

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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

Videoduration: 15 minutes

... and its consequences

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Milan between 1412 and 1447

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

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

- Money in different Forms

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

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

Aldous Huxley

a picture tour

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

of the MoneyMuseum

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

Madame Bovary

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

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Radetzkymarsch

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Dagmar Lorenz

Four books on measurement

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

Great Expectations

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

a coin tour

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

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

visually explained

Sense and Sensibility

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Robinson Crusoe

a picture tour

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

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

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

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Nero‘s Propaganda

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

a coin tour

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Erewhon

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

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Max Havelaar

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

The Decameron

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

a coin tour

Stopfkuchen.

a picture tour

a coin tour

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

a view from history

Pride and Prejudice

Satyricon

Jane Eyre

AudioGuide Roman Republic

J. R. R. Tolkien

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

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

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

of the MoneyMuseum

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

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

Change of Climate as trigger

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

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

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

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

Consolation of Philosophy

An analysis on social justice

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Physiognomic Fragments

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

a coin-podcast

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

... on justice and freedom of action

- Islamic Money