Digging in the archive

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

a coin tour

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

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Filmduration: 32 minutes

a coin tour

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Money defined in seven categories

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Table talk

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Filmduration: 39 minutes

in Classical Antiquity

a picture tour

Reminiscences

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Bel-Ami

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

a picture tour

Features of the Human Face on Coins

The medieval world order

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

a picture tour

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

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

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

The golden Age / Dream Days

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Travel around the World in 80 Days

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

in the money markets

Robinson Crusoe

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

A report from Ruanda

a coin tour

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

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

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Master Tales

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

beautiful High Relief Coinage

The Maltese Falcon

eine Bildertour

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Middlemarch

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

a pictoure tour

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

Consolation of Philosophy

Master Tales

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

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

a picture tour

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Four books on measurement

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

Erewhon

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Madame Bovary

- Islamic Money

a video podcast

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

The city

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

A successful concept for the investor

a podcast of the year in 1527

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Meistererzählungen

© Andreas Platthaus

Satyricon

Wuthering Heights

for the investor

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

Aldous Huxley

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

Mrs Jenny Treibel

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

Filmduration: 20 minutes

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

- The Yen

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Walden or Life in the Woods

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

Canterbury Tales

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

a coin tour

- Respectable and Trustworthy

- Money in different Forms

... since when has money been in existence?

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

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

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

ThurnierBuch, 1532

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

On Human Relations

The Decameron

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

A short statement

Thus spoke Zarathustra

a coin tour

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

Self-portrait

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

Voltaire and Rousseau

Il Milione

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Sonnets

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

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

by Peter Wolf

The Scarlet Letter

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

a coin tour

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Videoduration: 15 minutes

a coin tour

a video podcast

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

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

Stopfkuchen.

Great Expectations

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

The sea wolf

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Published 1948

Jane Eyre

a picture tour

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

... and its Relation to Money

Filmduration: 34 minutes

by Ursula Kampmann

Conversation Book

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Treasure Island

By Katrin Schär

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a picture tour

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

The Beautiful and the Damned

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

of the MoneyMuseum

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

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

Moby Dick

The Turn of the Screw

publiziert 1716

by Lukas M. Schneider

I Ging

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

Les Misérables

Physiognomic Fragments

Effi Briest

a video podcast

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

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

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

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

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

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

Ideal and Reality

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Who wanted the crusades?

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

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Clarissa Harlowe

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Germinal

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Der Steppenwolf

Don Quixote

Oblomow

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

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

A Christmas Carol

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

The Idiot

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

a picture tour

Introduction Roman Republic

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Tewje, the Milkman

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

Radetzkymarsch

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

by Herbert George Wells

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Holland in the 17th century

a picture tour

AudioGuide Roman Republic

of the MoneyMuseum

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

a coin tour

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Fahrenheit 451

Short video on how to attain it

New Atlas, 1710

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

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Brigitta and other tales

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

a coin tour

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Nero‘s Propaganda

a coin tour

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

The poor man in Tockenburg

Filmduration: 52 minutes

a picture tour

Filmduration: 7 minutes

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

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a coin tour

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

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

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

a picture tour

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

of the MoneyMuseum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- from the Vikings until today

Meistererzählungen

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

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

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

a coin-podcast

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

Gotha numaria, 1730

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

a coin tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Stiller

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

by Robert Schneebeli

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

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Sense and Sensibility

By Günter Hoffmann

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

by Dagmar Lorenz

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

a chart service for the investor

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

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

... and its consequences

a picture tour

Pride and Prejudice

a coin podcast

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

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

by Carol Schwyzer

a picture tour

Carmen

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

a coin tour

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

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

by Harald Wessbecher

5th Century B.C. Athens

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

visually explained

a video podcast

Der Besuch der alten Dame

- the Basis for Everyday Money

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Collected Fairy Tales

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

15 stories

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

The Great Gatsby

Animal Farm

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

Charles Baudelaire

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

... on justice and freedom of action

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

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

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

The Forgers

Change of Climate as trigger

1816: The year without a Summer

Collection MoneyMuseum

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

Youth without God

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

Get an answer in 90 seconds

An analysis on social justice

Old Goriot

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

two examples

The first opportunity to handle money …

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

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

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

Max Havelaar

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Vanity Fair

a picture tour

of the MoneyMuseum

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

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

a chart service for the investor

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

of Switzerland.

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

a picture tour

a coin tour

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

The Martian Chronicles

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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

a view from history

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014