archive of documents

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a coin tour

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

Who wanted the crusades?

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

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

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

New Atlas, 1710

– the Birth of Tolerance

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

by Peter Wolf

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Tewje, the Milkman

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

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

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

beautiful High Relief Coinage

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

© Andreas Platthaus

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

- from the Vikings until today

Carmen

On Human Relations

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Self-portrait

in Classical Antiquity

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

Change of Climate as trigger

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

by Lukas M. Schneider

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

The Decameron

in the money markets

a video podcast

Brigitta and other tales

Ideal and Reality

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

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

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

Meistererzählungen

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Filmduration: 72 minutes

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

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

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

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Oblomow

Pride and Prejudice

Madame Bovary

By Katrin Schär

a video podcast

The Scarlet Letter

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

a coin podcast

by Herbert George Wells

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

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

financial markets and the virtuality of values

a picture tour

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

of the MoneyMuseum

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

eine Bildertour

Stiller

Features of the Human Face on Coins

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

I Ging

a coin tour

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

a picture tour

a coin tour

A short statement

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

a video podcast

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

By Günter Hoffmann

by Ursula Kampmann

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Satyricon

The Idiot

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

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

a coin tour

Middlemarch

Collection MoneyMuseum

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

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

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Les Misérables

Mrs Jenny Treibel

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

The Great Gatsby

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

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

Sense and Sensibility

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

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

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Walden or Life in the Woods

a picture tour

The Martian Chronicles

... since when has money been in existence?

A successful concept for the investor

a pictoure tour

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Gotha numaria, 1730

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

by Harald Wessbecher

a coin tour

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Jane Eyre

a picture tour

a coin tour

a chart service for the investor

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

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

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

a coin tour

a picture tour

Vanity Fair

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

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

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

Fahrenheit 451

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

a chart service for the investor

of the MoneyMuseum

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Canterbury Tales

a picture tour

a picture tour

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

Reminiscences

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Short video on how to attain it

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

a coin tour

Youth without God

visually explained

Radetzkymarsch

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a coin tour

Master Tales

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

a coin tour

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

The city

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

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

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

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

a picture tour

a picture tour

The Turn of the Screw

Money defined in seven categories

a coin tour

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- Islamic Money

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

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

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

a picture tour

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Filmduration: 20 minutes

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

Filmduration: 52 minutes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The medieval world order

Voltaire and Rousseau

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

for the investor

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Il Milione

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

a coin tour

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

two examples

Treasure Island

a podcast of the year in 1527

of the MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Collected Fairy Tales

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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.

a coin tour

Table talk

Don Quixote

The Forgers

Filmduration: 34 minutes

The poor man in Tockenburg

Bel-Ami

The Beautiful and the Damned

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

Animal Farm

Conversation Book

a video podcast

by Dagmar Lorenz

Meistererzählungen

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

a picture tour

Videoduration: 15 minutes

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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

- The Yen

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Clarissa Harlowe

ThurnierBuch, 1532

... and its Relation to Money

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

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

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Erewhon

... and its consequences

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Consolation of Philosophy

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

a coin-podcast

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Max Havelaar

a picture tour

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

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Stopfkuchen.

by Carol Schwyzer

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a picture tour

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Introduction Roman Republic

5th Century B.C. Athens

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Get an answer in 90 seconds

a picture tour

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Four books on measurement

The first opportunity to handle money …

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

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

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

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

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

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Holland in the 17th century

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

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

by Robert Schneebeli

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

of the MoneyMuseum

of Switzerland.

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

a coin tour

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

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

Der Steppenwolf

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Nero‘s Propaganda

A Christmas Carol

- Money in different Forms

1816: The year without a Summer

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

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

... on justice and freedom of action

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

15 stories

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

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

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

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

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

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

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

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

Charles Baudelaire

The sea wolf

A report from Ruanda

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

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

Physiognomic Fragments

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Master Tales

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Sonnets

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

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Aldous Huxley

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

An analysis on social justice

Moby Dick

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Old Goriot

Great Expectations

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

a view from history

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Robinson Crusoe

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Effi Briest

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

Thus spoke Zarathustra

The Maltese Falcon

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

Published 1948

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Filmduration: 21 minutes

publiziert 1716

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

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Germinal

The golden Age / Dream Days

Wuthering Heights