Digging in the archive

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

© Andreas Platthaus

Change of Climate as trigger

Filmduration: 39 minutes

The Maltese Falcon

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

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

... and its consequences

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Robinson Crusoe

a picture tour

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

A report from Ruanda

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

of the MoneyMuseum

The Great Gatsby

By Katrin Schär

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

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

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

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

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

Stiller

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

a coin tour

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Aldous Huxley

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

Master Tales

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Moby Dick

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

- Islamic Money

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

a picture tour

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

Il Milione

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

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

a video podcast

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

Vanity Fair

An analysis on social justice

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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

15 stories

Radetzkymarsch

A Christmas Carol

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

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

Sense and Sensibility

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

in Classical Antiquity

Wuthering Heights

a coin-podcast

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

Don Quixote

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Clarissa Harlowe

Four books on measurement

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Table talk

Money defined in seven categories

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

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Charles Baudelaire

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

by Andreas Urs Sommer

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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.

a coin tour

of the MoneyMuseum

Fahrenheit 451

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

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

by Herbert George Wells

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Gotha numaria, 1730

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

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

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

Thus spoke Zarathustra

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

of the MoneyMuseum

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Reminiscences

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

eine Bildertour

Satyricon

Introduction Roman Republic

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

- The Yen

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

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

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

a picture tour

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

The Idiot

by Harald Wessbecher

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Meistererzählungen

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

a picture tour

a coin tour

a coin tour

a video podcast

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

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

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

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.

Madame Bovary

of the MoneyMuseum

New Atlas, 1710

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

The first opportunity to handle money …

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

... since when has money been in existence?

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

a video podcast

The poor man in Tockenburg

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

a picture tour

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

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

a picture tour

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

... and its Relation to Money

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

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

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

Der Steppenwolf

Erewhon

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

A successful concept for the investor

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Videoduration: 15 minutes

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

Les Misérables

Voltaire and Rousseau

a picture tour

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

Treasure Island

Conversation Book

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

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

a coin tour

The sea wolf

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

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Youth without God

a coin podcast

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

Who wanted the crusades?

- Money in different Forms

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

a coin tour

visually explained

in the money markets

a coin tour

The Turn of the Screw

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Max Havelaar

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

1816: The year without a Summer

a video podcast

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

The Martian Chronicles

Brigitta and other tales

Self-portrait

Filmduration: 23 minutes

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

The city

by Carol Schwyzer

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Published 1948

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

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

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

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

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

Oblomow

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

By Günter Hoffmann

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

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

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

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

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Pride and Prejudice

Germinal

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

- Respectable and Trustworthy

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Get an answer in 90 seconds

a picture tour

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Old Goriot

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

The medieval world order

a coin tour

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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

Meistererzählungen

I Ging

Ideal and Reality

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

a coin tour

... on justice and freedom of action

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

of the MoneyMuseum

Collection MoneyMuseum

by Robert Schneebeli

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

a chart service for the investor

a view from history

The Beautiful and the Damned

AudioGuide Roman Republic

a coin tour

a picture tour

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Filmduration: 7 minutes

- from the Vikings until today

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Features of the Human Face on Coins

The Forgers

financial markets and the virtuality of values

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

a picture tour

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

Jane Eyre

a pictoure tour

a coin tour

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

two examples

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

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

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

by Peter Wolf

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

Walden or Life in the Woods

Holland in the 17th century

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Canterbury Tales

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Tewje, the Milkman

a picture tour

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

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

Stopfkuchen.

a coin tour

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

a podcast of the year in 1527

a coin tour

Short video on how to attain it

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

Collected Fairy Tales

The Decameron

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

by Lukas M. Schneider

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

On Human Relations

Consolation of Philosophy

Great Expectations

Master Tales

a picture tour

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

Animal Farm

Effi Briest

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

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

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

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

a picture tour

The golden Age / Dream Days

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

beautiful High Relief Coinage

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The Scarlet Letter

publiziert 1716

for the investor

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

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

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

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

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

Middlemarch

Filmduration: 29 minutes

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

Bel-Ami

Sonnets

A short statement

a chart service for the investor

Physiognomic Fragments

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

Carmen

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

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

by Ursula Kampmann

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

of Switzerland.

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

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