archive of documents

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

The Great Gatsby

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

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

a view from history

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

a coin tour

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

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

a picture tour

by Ursula Kampmann

a picture tour

Treasure Island

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

By Günter Hoffmann

Oblomow

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

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

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

Jane Eyre

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Meistererzählungen

a coin tour

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

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

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

By Katrin Schär

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Great Expectations

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

A report from Ruanda

Madame Bovary

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Gotha numaria, 1730

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

in Classical Antiquity

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

a coin tour

Animal Farm

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

Sonnets

... since when has money been in existence?

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

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

eine Bildertour

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Max Havelaar

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Filmduration: 23 minutes

a coin tour

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Robinson Crusoe

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

5th Century B.C. Athens

Consolation of Philosophy

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

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

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Vanity Fair

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

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

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

by Marcus Junkelmann

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

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

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Don Quixote

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

a picture tour

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a coin tour

by Peter Wolf

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

Self-portrait

The city

Ideal and Reality

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

The sea wolf

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

Who wanted the crusades?

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

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

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

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

The Decameron

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

by Andreas Urs Sommer

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

The Martian Chronicles

a video podcast

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

a coin tour

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

The poor man in Tockenburg

Moby Dick

- Islamic Money

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Pride and Prejudice

Master Tales

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

a picture tour

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

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

New Atlas, 1710

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

... and its consequences

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Erewhon

visually explained

by Harald Wessbecher

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

The medieval world order

of the MoneyMuseum

a video podcast

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

a picture tour

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

Germinal

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

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

Effi Briest

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

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

by Herbert George Wells

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

a coin tour

Brigitta and other tales

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

The Forgers

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

Wuthering Heights

Conversation Book

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

by Robert Schneebeli

Les Misérables

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Physiognomic Fragments

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

15 stories

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Canterbury Tales

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

a picture tour

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

a picture tour

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

a coin tour

On Human Relations

Introduction Roman Republic

a picture tour

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

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Middlemarch

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Carmen

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

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Sense and Sensibility

for the investor

a picture tour

A short statement

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

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

Bel-Ami

© Andreas Platthaus

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

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

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Clarissa Harlowe

Reminiscences

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Four books on measurement

a coin tour

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

a coin tour

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

a coin tour

Walden or Life in the Woods

Aldous Huxley

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Fahrenheit 451

Short video on how to attain it

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Collection MoneyMuseum

Meistererzählungen

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

of the MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

Holland in the 17th century

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Voltaire and Rousseau

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

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

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

a coin tour

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

The Maltese Falcon

AudioGuide Roman Republic

financial markets and the virtuality of values

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Money defined in seven categories

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Charles Baudelaire

The Turn of the Screw

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

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

- Money in different Forms

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

- The Yen

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

The Beautiful and the Damned

The first opportunity to handle money …

An analysis on social justice

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

The Scarlet Letter

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

Old Goriot

Change of Climate as trigger

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Il Milione

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Master Tales

Collected Fairy Tales

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

a picture tour

Tewje, the Milkman

I Ging

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Stiller

Youth without God

- the Basis for Everyday Money

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

... and its Relation to Money

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 Christmas Carol

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Satyricon

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

a pictoure tour

A successful concept for the investor

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

a coin tour

Nero‘s Propaganda

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

– the Birth of Tolerance

a coin tour

Published 1948

Radetzkymarsch

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

- from the Vikings until today

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

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

a coin tour

a chart service for the investor

a video podcast

by Carol Schwyzer

Stopfkuchen.

Videoduration: 15 minutes

of Switzerland.

a coin podcast

a chart service for the investor

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

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

a coin-podcast

in the money markets

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

1816: The year without a Summer

publiziert 1716

The Idiot

Table talk

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Der Steppenwolf

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

two examples

Filmduration: 7 minutes

of the MoneyMuseum

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

a video podcast

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

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

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

Filmduration: 20 minutes

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Filmduration: 21 minutes

a picture tour

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

... on justice and freedom of action

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

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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