Digging in the archive

Tewje, the Milkman

Sonnets

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

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Get an answer in 90 seconds

I Ging

Carmen

a coin tour

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"

by Marcus Junkelmann

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

a picture tour

An analysis on social justice

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

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

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Aldous Huxley

two examples

Voltaire and Rousseau

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

Introduction Roman Republic

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

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

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

The Turn of the Screw

a coin tour

Stiller

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Filmduration: 23 minutes

of the MoneyMuseum

Effi Briest

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

a picture tour

Meistererzählungen

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

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

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

Les Misérables

Collection MoneyMuseum

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

a video podcast

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

a picture tour

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Il Milione

The golden Age / Dream Days

Brigitta and other tales

a coin tour

The medieval world order

Bel-Ami

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

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

On Human Relations

Consolation of Philosophy

by Peter Wolf

Clarissa Harlowe

... since when has money been in existence?

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

a coin tour

Treasure Island

Erewhon

Stopfkuchen.

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

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

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

By Günter Hoffmann

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

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

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

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

beautiful High Relief Coinage

a picture tour

Canterbury Tales

a view from history

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

a picture tour

Robinson Crusoe

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

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"

Filmduration: 34 minutes

of the MoneyMuseum

Der Steppenwolf

in the money markets

A successful concept for the investor

Master Tales

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

Youth without God

a coin tour

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

a picture tour

a video podcast

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

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

a picture tour

a coin tour

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

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

Filmduration: 21 minutes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a coin podcast

a picture tour

... and its consequences

Moby Dick

a coin tour

The Idiot

Satyricon

Middlemarch

The first opportunity to handle money …

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

publiziert 1716

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

a coin tour

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

a video podcast

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

Money defined in seven categories

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Animal Farm

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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

a coin tour

a picture tour

Self-portrait

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Pride and Prejudice

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

- Respectable and Trustworthy

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Reminiscences

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

The Beautiful and the Damned

a coin-podcast

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Madame Bovary

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

Great Expectations

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

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Don Quixote

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

Change of Climate as trigger

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

by Robert Schneebeli

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

- The Yen

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

1816: The year without a Summer

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Charles Baudelaire

by Andreas Urs Sommer

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

a picture tour

a coin tour

of the MoneyMuseum

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

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

... on justice and freedom of action

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

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

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

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

A Christmas Carol

Oblomow

Physiognomic Fragments

The Maltese Falcon

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

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

a picture tour

Walden or Life in the Woods

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

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

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

a coin tour

Max Havelaar

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Filmduration: 29 minutes

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

Vanity Fair

The Martian Chronicles

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

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

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

Fahrenheit 451

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

... and its Relation to Money

New Atlas, 1710

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Jane Eyre

a pictoure tour

for the investor

Radetzkymarsch

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Table talk

Videoduration: 15 minutes

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

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

Short video on how to attain it

Filmduration: 20 minutes

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

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

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

Holland in the 17th century

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Germinal

J. R. R. Tolkien

Four books on measurement

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

The poor man in Tockenburg

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

AudioGuide Roman Republic

a chart service for the investor

by Ursula Kampmann

a coin tour

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

a coin tour

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

Conversation Book

The Scarlet Letter

Filmduration: 39 minutes

of the MoneyMuseum

- Money in different Forms

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

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

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

The Great Gatsby

AudioGuide Roman Republic

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

eine Bildertour

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

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

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Published 1948

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

of Switzerland.

Collected Fairy Tales

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

a coin tour

Der Besuch der alten Dame

A short statement

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

- from the Vikings until today

visually explained

Meistererzählungen

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

Old Goriot

A report from Ruanda

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

The city

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

by Herbert George Wells

By Katrin Schär

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

The Decameron

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The Forgers

a picture tour

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Nero‘s Propaganda

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

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Who wanted the crusades?

The sea wolf

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

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

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

a chart service for the investor

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

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

a coin tour

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

Gotha numaria, 1730

a video podcast

Filmduration: 52 minutes

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

a picture tour

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

© Andreas Platthaus

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Sense and Sensibility

a picture tour

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

in Classical Antiquity

Ideal and Reality

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Wuthering Heights

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

15 stories

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- Islamic Money

Master Tales

a podcast of the year in 1527

Milan between 1412 and 1447

of the MoneyMuseum

by Harald Wessbecher

by Carol Schwyzer