Digging in the archive

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Der Steppenwolf

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Animal Farm

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Germinal

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

... on justice and freedom of action

Conversation Book

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

in the money markets

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

by Robert Schneebeli

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

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

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

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Carmen

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

Sense and Sensibility

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

a picture tour

Sonnets

Thus spoke Zarathustra

New Atlas, 1710

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

Consolation of Philosophy

Wuthering Heights

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Change of Climate as trigger

of the MoneyMuseum

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Treasure Island

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

a coin tour

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

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

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

- Money in different Forms

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

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

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

Stiller

Great Expectations

The Martian Chronicles

Effi Briest

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

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

by Peter Wolf

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

a view from history

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Who wanted the crusades?

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Les Misérables

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Filmduration: 29 minutes

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

a coin tour

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Madame Bovary

AudioGuide Roman Republic

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

a coin tour

by Carol Schwyzer

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

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

publiziert 1716

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

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

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

a picture tour

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

a picture tour

a coin tour

5th Century B.C. Athens

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Don Quixote

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Filmduration: 34 minutes

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

A report from Ruanda

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

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

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

a picture tour

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Radetzkymarsch

by Ursula Kampmann

Brigitta and other tales

a video podcast

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a picture tour

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

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

by Herbert George Wells

a picture tour

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

... since when has money been in existence?

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

a coin tour

a picture tour

Stopfkuchen.

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Get an answer in 90 seconds

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

a picture tour

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

15 stories

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

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

- Respectable and Trustworthy

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Canterbury Tales

- Islamic Money

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

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

Four books on measurement

a coin tour

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

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

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

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

a pictoure tour

Charles Baudelaire

The Turn of the Screw

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Lukas M. Schneider

... and its consequences

of the MoneyMuseum

by Harald Wessbecher

a video podcast

Voltaire and Rousseau

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

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

Walden or Life in the Woods

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

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

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a coin tour

Travel around the World in 80 Days

The golden Age / Dream Days

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Nero‘s Propaganda

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

An analysis on social justice

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

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

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

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

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

- from the Vikings until today

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

Clarissa Harlowe

The sea wolf

Robinson Crusoe

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

in Classical Antiquity

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

On Human Relations

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

a coin tour

The poor man in Tockenburg

Vanity Fair

a coin tour

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

a coin tour

Meistererzählungen

Old Goriot

Moby Dick

a chart service for the investor

Jane Eyre

a coin tour

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

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Holland in the 17th century

a picture tour

a video podcast

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

two examples

by Dagmar Lorenz

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

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

a coin-podcast

The Beautiful and the Damned

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Collected Fairy Tales

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

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

By Katrin Schär

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Bel-Ami

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

The first opportunity to handle money …

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

of the MoneyMuseum

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

Gotha numaria, 1730

The Forgers

a coin tour

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

Erewhon

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

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

© Andreas Platthaus

The Maltese Falcon

The Idiot

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

Table talk

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

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

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

Reminiscences

Physiognomic Fragments

Short video on how to attain it

Published 1948

a coin podcast

by Andreas Urs Sommer

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Max Havelaar

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

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Filmduration: 52 minutes

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

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

Pride and Prejudice

Ideal and Reality

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

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

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

Introduction Roman Republic

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

– the Birth of Tolerance

ThurnierBuch, 1532

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

Master Tales

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Tewje, the Milkman

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

of the MoneyMuseum

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

a picture tour

A Christmas Carol

Meistererzählungen

Middlemarch

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

a video podcast

Money defined in seven categories

The Scarlet Letter

Filmduration: 20 minutes

of the MoneyMuseum

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

- The Yen

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

Satyricon

a picture tour

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Il Milione

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

I Ging

A successful concept for the investor

Fahrenheit 451

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

The city

Master Tales

The Decameron

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

a coin tour

a chart service for the investor

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Self-portrait

a coin tour

A short statement

a coin tour

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

of Switzerland.

Oblomow

The Great Gatsby

Videoduration: 15 minutes

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a picture tour

Youth without God

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

By Günter Hoffmann

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Collection MoneyMuseum

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Aldous Huxley

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

for the investor

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

eine Bildertour

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

1816: The year without a Summer

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

J. R. R. Tolkien

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Der Besuch der alten Dame

The medieval world order

... and its Relation to Money

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

visually explained

Milan between 1412 and 1447

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