archive of documents

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Effi Briest

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

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

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

Jane Eyre

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmduration: 72 minutes

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

- Respectable and Trustworthy

The first opportunity to handle money …

New Atlas, 1710

Filmduration: 7 minutes

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

- The Yen

Ideal and Reality

Short video on how to attain it

by Peter Wolf

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

a coin tour

publiziert 1716

a coin tour

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

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

Old Goriot

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

Madame Bovary

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

Wuthering Heights

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

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

in Classical Antiquity

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Stopfkuchen.

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Der Steppenwolf

Les Misérables

Treasure Island

By Günter Hoffmann

Vanity Fair

a picture tour

Oblomow

The Forgers

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

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

Self-portrait

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

© Andreas Platthaus

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

a picture tour

Moby Dick

a coin tour

- Islamic Money

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Who wanted the crusades?

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Money defined in seven categories

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

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

Conversation Book

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

15 stories

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

two examples

Introduction Roman Republic

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Milan between 1412 and 1447

a video podcast

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

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

a picture tour

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

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

a picture tour

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

1816: The year without a Summer

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

by Carol Schwyzer

a picture tour

An analysis on social justice

of Switzerland.

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

The Maltese Falcon

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Consolation of Philosophy

Satyricon

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a picture tour

a coin tour

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

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

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Table talk

... since when has money been in existence?

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

by Marcus Junkelmann

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

Radetzkymarsch

The golden Age / Dream Days

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

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

Brigitta and other tales

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

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

a picture tour

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

a video podcast

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

A successful concept for the investor

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Robinson Crusoe

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

The medieval world order

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

a picture tour

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

Charles Baudelaire

of the MoneyMuseum

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

visually explained

- from the Vikings until today

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

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

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

Carmen

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

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

a podcast of the year in 1527

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

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

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

Fahrenheit 451

Nero‘s Propaganda

a chart service for the investor

a coin tour

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

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

The Martian Chronicles

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Collection MoneyMuseum

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Filmduration: 34 minutes

- Money in different Forms

of the MoneyMuseum

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

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

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

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

By Katrin Schär

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Change of Climate as trigger

by Ursula Kampmann

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

a coin tour

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

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

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

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Holland in the 17th century

Meistererzählungen

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Collected Fairy Tales

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Canterbury Tales

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

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Erewhon

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

Middlemarch

a picture tour

Aldous Huxley

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Filmduration: 52 minutes

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

a coin tour

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

I Ging

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

a picture tour

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

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

eine Bildertour

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

a coin tour

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

The Idiot

The sea wolf

financial markets and the virtuality of values

a coin tour

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

by Harald Wessbecher

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

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

a coin podcast

Animal Farm

ThurnierBuch, 1532

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Reminiscences

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

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

by Dagmar Lorenz

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Features of the Human Face on Coins

a coin tour

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Master Tales

The Scarlet Letter

Published 1948

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

... on justice and freedom of action

Clarissa Harlowe

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

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

for the investor

The Beautiful and the Damned

J. R. R. Tolkien

Sense and Sensibility

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

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

A report from Ruanda

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a coin tour

by Herbert George Wells

A short statement

Stiller

... and its consequences

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

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

by Lukas M. Schneider

Filmduration: 21 minutes

a picture tour

a video podcast

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Max Havelaar

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

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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

The Turn of the Screw

in the money markets

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Tewje, the Milkman

Sonnets

The Great Gatsby

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

a coin tour

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

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Filmduration: 29 minutes

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

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

a picture tour

Il Milione

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

– the Birth of Tolerance

Master Tales

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

a picture tour

Gotha numaria, 1730

Mrs Jenny Treibel

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

The city

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

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

Don Quixote

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Walden or Life in the Woods

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

a pictoure tour

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

a coin tour

Meistererzählungen

by Robert Schneebeli

a chart service for the investor

The poor man in Tockenburg

of the MoneyMuseum

On Human Relations

A Christmas Carol

a picture tour

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

of the MoneyMuseum

of the MoneyMuseum

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

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

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Voltaire and Rousseau

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

Pride and Prejudice

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

- the Basis for Everyday Money

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

a video podcast

a picture tour

a coin tour

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

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

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

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

... and its Relation to Money

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

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

Physiognomic Fragments

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

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

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

Germinal

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

Great Expectations

Bel-Ami

a coin tour

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

The Decameron

Four books on measurement

by Andreas Urs Sommer

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

a coin-podcast

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

a view from history

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

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Youth without God

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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