Digging in the archive

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

A Christmas Carol

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

a picture tour

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Carmen

© Andreas Platthaus

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

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

Animal Farm

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

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

by Peter Wolf

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

two examples

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a picture tour

Der Besuch der alten Dame

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

financial markets and the virtuality of values

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

Stiller

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

The Forgers

a picture tour

a picture tour

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

of Switzerland.

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

Conversation Book

Wuthering Heights

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

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

a coin tour

Four books on measurement

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

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

Get an answer in 90 seconds

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Moby Dick

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

Charles Baudelaire

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

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

I Ging

for the investor

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Les Misérables

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

eine Bildertour

A short statement

a picture tour

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

publiziert 1716

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Aldous Huxley

Physiognomic Fragments

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

Max Havelaar

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

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

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

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Features of the Human Face on Coins

a pictoure tour

Bel-Ami

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- The Yen

a chart service for the investor

Don Quixote

The Great Gatsby

Robinson Crusoe

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

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

Madame Bovary

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

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

by Harald Wessbecher

a video podcast

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

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

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Brigitta and other tales

Filmduration: 7 minutes

- Islamic Money

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

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

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

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

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

a coin podcast

a picture tour

a coin tour

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

A successful concept for the investor

The Beautiful and the Damned

Introduction Roman Republic

Filmduration: 52 minutes

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

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Gotha numaria, 1730

Collected Fairy Tales

Great Expectations

a chart service for the investor

The Turn of the Screw

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

by Ursula Kampmann

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Erewhon

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

... since when has money been in existence?

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

Meistererzählungen

a video podcast

The first opportunity to handle money …

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

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

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

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

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

a video podcast

AudioGuide Roman Republic

- Money in different Forms

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

The Maltese Falcon

a coin tour

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Short video on how to attain it

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Germinal

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

Treasure Island

a coin tour

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

Ideal and Reality

... and its consequences

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

a coin tour

The sea wolf

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

By Katrin Schär

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

a view from history

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

a coin tour

by Robert Schneebeli

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

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

An analysis on social justice

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

a coin tour

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

a coin-podcast

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

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

a video podcast

Canterbury Tales

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

The Martian Chronicles

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Pride and Prejudice

a picture tour

Master Tales

a picture tour

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

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

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

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

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Effi Briest

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

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

... on justice and freedom of action

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

By Günter Hoffmann

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

by Carol Schwyzer

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The medieval world order

– the Birth of Tolerance

a coin tour

of the MoneyMuseum

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

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

a picture tour

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Jane Eyre

by Marcus Junkelmann

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Videoduration: 15 minutes

a picture tour

a coin tour

Radetzkymarsch

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Fahrenheit 451

5th Century B.C. Athens

The Scarlet Letter

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

a coin tour

a picture tour

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

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

Il Milione

of the MoneyMuseum

Meistererzählungen

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Filmduration: 39 minutes

On Human Relations

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Reminiscences

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

A report from Ruanda

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Change of Climate as trigger

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

Old Goriot

Voltaire and Rousseau

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Thus spoke Zarathustra

by Herbert George Wells

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

a coin tour

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Master Tales

Holland in the 17th century

The Decameron

of the MoneyMuseum

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

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

- from the Vikings until today

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

a picture tour

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Table talk

visually explained

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

a coin tour

by Andreas Urs Sommer

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Walden or Life in the Woods

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

a picture tour

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

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

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

... and its Relation to Money

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

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

New Atlas, 1710

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

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

a coin tour

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

The poor man in Tockenburg

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Oblomow

Collection MoneyMuseum

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Stopfkuchen.

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Consolation of Philosophy

Self-portrait

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Clarissa Harlowe

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

1816: The year without a Summer

The golden Age / Dream Days

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

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

a picture tour

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Published 1948

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

of the MoneyMuseum

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The Idiot

by Lukas M. Schneider

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

in Classical Antiquity

in the money markets

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Der Steppenwolf

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Sense and Sensibility

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The city

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

Youth without God

Vanity Fair

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Tewje, the Milkman

Middlemarch

Milan between 1412 and 1447

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Satyricon

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Sonnets

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

a coin tour

15 stories

a coin tour

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

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

beautiful High Relief Coinage

a picture tour

Who wanted the crusades?

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

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Money defined in seven categories

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher