Digging in the archive

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

a video podcast

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Introduction Roman Republic

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

Voltaire and Rousseau

a picture tour

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

Madame Bovary

a coin tour

The golden Age / Dream Days

Les Misérables

Change of Climate as trigger

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

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

Thus spoke Zarathustra

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Treasure Island

Sonnets

by Harald Wessbecher

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

5th Century B.C. Athens

by Dagmar Lorenz

- the Basis for Everyday Money

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

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

The Turn of the Screw

financial markets and the virtuality of values

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

... and its consequences

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

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

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

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

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

Effi Briest

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Bel-Ami

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The city

of the MoneyMuseum

Radetzkymarsch

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

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

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

- Respectable and Trustworthy

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Milan between 1412 and 1447

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

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

Great Expectations

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

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

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

a coin tour

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

a picture tour

Walden or Life in the Woods

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Fahrenheit 451

Physiognomic Fragments

Table talk

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Filmduration: 29 minutes

by Lukas M. Schneider

Sense and Sensibility

Videoduration: 15 minutes

A short statement

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

15 stories

... since when has money been in existence?

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Self-portrait

Holland in the 17th century

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

of the MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

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

Max Havelaar

On Human Relations

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Der Steppenwolf

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

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

a video podcast

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

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

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

The Scarlet Letter

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

- Money in different Forms

Middlemarch

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

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

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

a view from history

a coin tour

The poor man in Tockenburg

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

in the money markets

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Four books on measurement

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Aldous Huxley

1816: The year without a Summer

Filmduration: 20 minutes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

AudioGuide Roman Republic

a chart service for the investor

Satyricon

An analysis on social justice

A report from Ruanda

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

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Travel around the World in 80 Days

a video podcast

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

a picture tour

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

a coin tour

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

The Great Gatsby

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

Brigitta and other tales

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

a picture tour

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

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

publiziert 1716

- Islamic Money

Carmen

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Il Milione

Pride and Prejudice

a pictoure tour

a picture tour

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

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

Robinson Crusoe

Short video on how to attain it

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

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

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

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

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

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

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Germinal

a coin tour

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Wuthering Heights

a coin tour

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

by Ursula Kampmann

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

Filmduration: 39 minutes

of the MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

a picture tour

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Charles Baudelaire

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

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Oblomow

Mrs Jenny Treibel

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

of the MoneyMuseum

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

a coin tour

Animal Farm

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

The Decameron

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

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Stiller

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

The first opportunity to handle money …

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

Old Goriot

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

a picture tour

Reminiscences

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

two examples

Meistererzählungen

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Who wanted the crusades?

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

a coin tour

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

The Maltese Falcon

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

a picture tour

by Marcus Junkelmann

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

a picture tour

Jane Eyre

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

by Robert Schneebeli

for the investor

a coin tour

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

By Günter Hoffmann

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

a picture tour

Conversation Book

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Published 1948

The Martian Chronicles

Erewhon

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

of Switzerland.

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

by Herbert George Wells

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

a coin tour

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

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

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

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

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

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

... and its Relation to Money

a coin-podcast

A Christmas Carol

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Master Tales

a coin podcast

Money defined in seven categories

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

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

eine Bildertour

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

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

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

beautiful High Relief Coinage

by Carol Schwyzer

Stopfkuchen.

The sea wolf

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Master Tales

a picture tour

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

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

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

By Katrin Schär

Collection MoneyMuseum

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

The Forgers

a chart service for the investor

New Atlas, 1710

a coin tour

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

Collected Fairy Tales

Youth without God

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

Vanity Fair

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

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

Meistererzählungen

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

by Andreas Urs Sommer

by Peter Wolf

© Andreas Platthaus

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Get an answer in 90 seconds

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

Gotha numaria, 1730

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Don Quixote

A successful concept for the investor

a coin tour

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

visually explained

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

I Ging

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Nero‘s Propaganda

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

... on justice and freedom of action

of the MoneyMuseum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Tewje, the Milkman

- from the Vikings until today

The Beautiful and the Damned

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

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

Clarissa Harlowe

in Classical Antiquity

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

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

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

The medieval world order

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Moby Dick

Canterbury Tales

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

a picture tour

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

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

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

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

The Idiot

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

a coin tour

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

- The Yen

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

a video podcast

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Consolation of Philosophy

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Ideal and Reality

a picture tour