Digging in the archive

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Gotha numaria, 1730

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Thus spoke Zarathustra

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

a picture tour

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

by Harald Wessbecher

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

a coin tour

- Islamic Money

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

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

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

Money defined in seven categories

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

Walden or Life in the Woods

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

The first opportunity to handle money …

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a video podcast

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

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

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Meistererzählungen

a picture tour

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

a coin tour

Max Havelaar

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

The golden Age / Dream Days

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Tewje, the Milkman

15 stories

Introduction Roman Republic

A Christmas Carol

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

The Decameron

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

Collected Fairy Tales

The Scarlet Letter

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

- The Yen

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

A short statement

The Maltese Falcon

Erewhon

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

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

by Robert Schneebeli

Milan between 1412 and 1447

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Germinal

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Change of Climate as trigger

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

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

by Herbert George Wells

Carmen

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

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

a video podcast

Travel around the World in 80 Days

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a coin tour

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

The Martian Chronicles

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Der Besuch der alten Dame

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

of the MoneyMuseum

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Reminiscences

Stopfkuchen.

visually explained

Consolation of Philosophy

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Physiognomic Fragments

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

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

a coin tour

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Effi Briest

Self-portrait

Sonnets

Voltaire and Rousseau

a chart service for the investor

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

publiziert 1716

a coin tour

Satyricon

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

Great Expectations

Pride and Prejudice

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Il Milione

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Vanity Fair

of the MoneyMuseum

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

for the investor

Bel-Ami

Table talk

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

eine Bildertour

On Human Relations

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

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

by Ursula Kampmann

1816: The year without a Summer

Master Tales

a picture tour

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

Filmduration: 34 minutes

a pictoure tour

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

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

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

... on justice and freedom of action

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

Filmduration: 39 minutes

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

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

Ideal and Reality

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

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

Der Steppenwolf

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

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

a picture tour

Clarissa Harlowe

Filmduration: 20 minutes

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Published 1948

Youth without God

a picture tour

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

a picture tour

Who wanted the crusades?

Les Misérables

Sense and Sensibility

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Videoduration: 15 minutes

a view from history

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

The city

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

The poor man in Tockenburg

Master Tales

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

The sea wolf

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

by Andreas Urs Sommer

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin podcast

AudioGuide Roman Republic

a picture tour

Don Quixote

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

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

Old Goriot

by Carol Schwyzer

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

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

a chart service for the investor

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

a picture tour

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

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

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

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

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

Meistererzählungen

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a picture tour

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

a picture tour

Filmduration: 52 minutes

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

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Filmduration: 21 minutes

a coin tour

Middlemarch

The medieval world order

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

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

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

... and its consequences

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

a picture tour

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

a coin tour

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

A report from Ruanda

Collection MoneyMuseum

New Atlas, 1710

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

A successful concept for the investor

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

Moby Dick

Canterbury Tales

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

of the MoneyMuseum

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

- from the Vikings until today

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

a picture tour

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

by Peter Wolf

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

Conversation Book

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

J. R. R. Tolkien

by Marcus Junkelmann

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Four books on measurement

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

The Idiot

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

The Great Gatsby

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

Oblomow

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Wuthering Heights

An analysis on social justice

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

a coin tour

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Filmduration: 7 minutes

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

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

By Katrin Schär

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

© Andreas Platthaus

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

of Switzerland.

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

I Ging

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

... since when has money been in existence?

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

Aldous Huxley

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

Holland in the 17th century

Stiller

Robinson Crusoe

ThurnierBuch, 1532

The Forgers

Short video on how to attain it

a coin tour

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

a coin-podcast

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Charles Baudelaire

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Treasure Island

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

two examples

in the money markets

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

Radetzkymarsch

5th Century B.C. Athens

a video podcast

a picture tour

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

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

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

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Madame Bovary

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

Animal Farm

Fahrenheit 451

a podcast of the year in 1527

Jane Eyre

The Beautiful and the Damned

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

a picture tour

of the MoneyMuseum

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a coin tour

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

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

in Classical Antiquity

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

a video podcast

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

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

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

... and its Relation to Money

By Günter Hoffmann

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

a coin tour

- Respectable and Trustworthy

- Money in different Forms

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

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

Brigitta and other tales

The Turn of the Screw

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

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

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

a coin tour

a coin tour

Nero‘s Propaganda

Get an answer in 90 seconds

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

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

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

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