Digging in the archive

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

a coin tour

Filmduration: 20 minutes

a picture tour

Reminiscences

a picture tour

a pictoure tour

ThurnierBuch, 1532

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

1816: The year without a Summer

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

for the investor

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

a picture tour

Ideal and Reality

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

by Peter Wolf

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Self-portrait

Gotha numaria, 1730

a chart service for the investor

Collected Fairy Tales

A Christmas Carol

by Harald Wessbecher

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

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

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Pride and Prejudice

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

a picture tour

by Dagmar Lorenz

a video podcast

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

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

Max Havelaar

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"

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

The city

by Carol Schwyzer

The Turn of the Screw

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

a picture tour

a video podcast

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

... and its consequences

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Stiller

Satyricon

of Switzerland.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Youth without God

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

a coin tour

I Ging

a coin tour

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

The Beautiful and the Damned

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

by Marcus Junkelmann

of the MoneyMuseum

beautiful High Relief Coinage

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

The Idiot

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

in Classical Antiquity

a coin tour

Charles Baudelaire

The Decameron

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

The sea wolf

a chart service for the investor

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Fahrenheit 451

a coin tour

Jane Eyre

Master Tales

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

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

a picture tour

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

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

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

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

Der Steppenwolf

Published 1948

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

by Lukas M. Schneider

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

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

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

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

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

- Money in different Forms

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Physiognomic Fragments

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

by Ursula Kampmann

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

a video podcast

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Master Tales

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

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

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

An analysis on social justice

... since when has money been in existence?

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

- The Yen

Bel-Ami

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Voltaire and Rousseau

Madame Bovary

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

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

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

- from the Vikings until today

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Moby Dick

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

The Great Gatsby

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

publiziert 1716

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

The first opportunity to handle money …

Il Milione

of the MoneyMuseum

Introduction Roman Republic

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

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

A successful concept for the investor

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

The Scarlet Letter

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

Four books on measurement

Mrs Jenny Treibel

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

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

The poor man in Tockenburg

Robinson Crusoe

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

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.

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

Carmen

Middlemarch

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

a video podcast

Old Goriot

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

- Islamic Money

By Günter Hoffmann

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

two examples

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Maltese Falcon

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Conversation Book

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

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

by Herbert George Wells

- the Basis for Everyday Money

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

J. R. R. Tolkien

Milan between 1412 and 1447

a picture tour

Aldous Huxley

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Holland in the 17th century

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

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

The medieval world order

Consolation of Philosophy

in the money markets

Treasure Island

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

a coin podcast

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

a coin tour

A report from Ruanda

Vanity Fair

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

a coin tour

Don Quixote

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Erewhon

Sense and Sensibility

Oblomow

a picture tour

... and its Relation to Money

Canterbury Tales

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

Collection MoneyMuseum

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

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

The Martian Chronicles

Effi Briest

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

eine Bildertour

New Atlas, 1710

a picture tour

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Les Misérables

© Andreas Platthaus

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Meistererzählungen

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

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

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

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

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Great Expectations

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

a coin tour

Videoduration: 15 minutes

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a coin tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Clarissa Harlowe

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Tewje, the Milkman

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

AudioGuide Roman Republic

By Katrin Schär

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Who wanted the crusades?

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Filmduration: 7 minutes

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Money defined in seven categories

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

The Forgers

Table talk

On Human Relations

The golden Age / Dream Days

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

a coin tour

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

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

a view from history

a coin tour

Walden or Life in the Woods

a coin tour

Germinal

Thus spoke Zarathustra

a coin tour

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

visually explained

by Robert Schneebeli

Wuthering Heights

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

a picture tour

Short video on how to attain it

A short statement

15 stories

Stopfkuchen.

a picture tour

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

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

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

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

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

Meistererzählungen

a coin tour

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

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Animal Farm

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Sonnets

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

a coin tour

Brigitta and other tales

Change of Climate as trigger

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

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Radetzkymarsch

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

a coin-podcast

... on justice and freedom of action

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

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

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

Filmduration: 34 minutes

a picture tour

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