Digging in the archive

two examples

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

New Atlas, 1710

by Lukas M. Schneider

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

Old Goriot

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

a picture tour

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

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

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

Money defined in seven categories

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

A report from Ruanda

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

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

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

a coin tour

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Der Besuch der alten Dame

a picture tour

a coin tour

a coin tour

Meistererzählungen

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

by Marcus Junkelmann

Der Steppenwolf

© Andreas Platthaus

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Physiognomic Fragments

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

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Voltaire and Rousseau

Clarissa Harlowe

The medieval world order

a pictoure tour

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

of the MoneyMuseum

Gotha numaria, 1730

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

a coin tour

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Germinal

A successful concept for the investor

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

ThurnierBuch, 1532

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Meistererzählungen

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Carmen

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

a picture tour

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

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Don Quixote

A Christmas Carol

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

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

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

Tewje, the Milkman

of Switzerland.

a coin tour

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Filmduration: 29 minutes

visually explained

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Animal Farm

Self-portrait

1816: The year without a Summer

... on justice and freedom of action

Madame Bovary

Get an answer in 90 seconds

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

Collection MoneyMuseum

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a picture tour

Bel-Ami

Fahrenheit 451

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

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

by Robert Schneebeli

in Classical Antiquity

Collected Fairy Tales

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

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

publiziert 1716

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Canterbury Tales

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

by Carol Schwyzer

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

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

Published 1948

for the investor

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

5th Century B.C. Athens

Il Milione

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

a coin tour

Nero‘s Propaganda

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

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

- Islamic Money

a video podcast

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Wuthering Heights

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

The Turn of the Screw

- The Yen

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

... since when has money been in existence?

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

Oblomow

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Master Tales

Consolation of Philosophy

Great Expectations

a coin-podcast

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

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

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

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Introduction Roman Republic

Who wanted the crusades?

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

a coin tour

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

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

a video podcast

The Forgers

The sea wolf

Max Havelaar

The Maltese Falcon

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Vanity Fair

Satyricon

a picture tour

Short video on how to attain it

AudioGuide Roman Republic

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Master Tales

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

of the MoneyMuseum

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

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

Holland in the 17th century

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

a picture tour

by Ursula Kampmann

Brigitta and other tales

by Dagmar Lorenz

The poor man in Tockenburg

A short statement

Sonnets

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

J. R. R. Tolkien

Middlemarch

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Sense and Sensibility

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

a coin tour

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

Radetzkymarsch

The golden Age / Dream Days

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

a picture tour

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Charles Baudelaire

Conversation Book

The Martian Chronicles

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Les Misérables

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

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

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Ideal and Reality

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

a picture tour

a picture tour

- Respectable and Trustworthy

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

a coin tour

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

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

- Money in different Forms

in the money markets

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

a picture tour

Erewhon

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

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

a podcast of the year in 1527

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Aldous Huxley

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

eine Bildertour

Filmduration: 7 minutes

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The city

by Herbert George Wells

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

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

The Decameron

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

by Harald Wessbecher

Pride and Prejudice

of the MoneyMuseum

Moby Dick

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

... and its Relation to Money

Youth without God

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

15 stories

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

a coin tour

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

a chart service for the investor

Jane Eyre

The first opportunity to handle money …

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

... and its consequences

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

a coin tour

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

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

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Filmduration: 34 minutes

The Great Gatsby

a picture tour

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

a video podcast

Filmduration: 52 minutes

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

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

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

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

Table talk

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

Stopfkuchen.

a view from history

The Scarlet Letter

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

Stiller

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a coin tour

An analysis on social justice

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Walden or Life in the Woods

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

Reminiscences

Change of Climate as trigger

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

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

a video podcast

AudioGuide Roman Republic

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Features of the Human Face on Coins

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

by Peter Wolf

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

The Idiot

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

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

Videoduration: 15 minutes

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

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

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

On Human Relations

a picture tour

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

a picture tour

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

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

Effi Briest

a picture tour

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

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

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

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

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

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

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

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Robinson Crusoe

- from the Vikings until today

a chart service for the investor

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

By Günter Hoffmann

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

Four books on measurement

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

Treasure Island

The Beautiful and the Damned

By Katrin Schär

I Ging

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

a coin tour

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

a coin tour

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

a coin podcast

beautiful High Relief Coinage