archive of documents

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

Les Misérables

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

by Robert Schneebeli

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

a picture tour

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

a picture tour

Reminiscences

The Great Gatsby

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Sonnets

of the MoneyMuseum

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Carmen

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

New Atlas, 1710

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

a coin tour

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Max Havelaar

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

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

a coin tour

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

a coin tour

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

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Brigitta and other tales

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Der Steppenwolf

- Islamic Money

Moby Dick

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

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

by Dagmar Lorenz

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

a chart service for the investor

by Ursula Kampmann

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

a coin tour

publiziert 1716

J. R. R. Tolkien

Filmduration: 23 minutes

The Turn of the Screw

a picture tour

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

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

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a view from history

A successful concept for the investor

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

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Animal Farm

Robinson Crusoe

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

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

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

by Peter Wolf

Gotha numaria, 1730

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a chart service for the investor

Great Expectations

Youth without God

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

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Charles Baudelaire

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

By Katrin Schär

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

Germinal

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

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

The sea wolf

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

A report from Ruanda

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

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

... on justice and freedom of action

The Martian Chronicles

a picture tour

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

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

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

a picture tour

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

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

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

The Maltese Falcon

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Der Besuch der alten Dame

The medieval world order

Canterbury Tales

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

Fahrenheit 451

... and its Relation to Money

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

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

of the MoneyMuseum

Filmduration: 21 minutes

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

Tewje, the Milkman

a video podcast

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

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

Collection MoneyMuseum

Short video on how to attain it

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

a picture tour

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

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

a video podcast

- from the Vikings until today

Nero‘s Propaganda

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

two examples

by Marcus Junkelmann

The city

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

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

a picture tour

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Filmduration: 7 minutes

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

Master Tales

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Physiognomic Fragments

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

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

Get an answer in 90 seconds

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

© Andreas Platthaus

– the Birth of Tolerance

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Who wanted the crusades?

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Conversation Book

The first opportunity to handle money …

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

a coin-podcast

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

I Ging

Videoduration: 15 minutes

eine Bildertour

a coin tour

Treasure Island

Clarissa Harlowe

of the MoneyMuseum

A Christmas Carol

... since when has money been in existence?

... and its consequences

a video podcast

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

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

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

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

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

15 stories

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

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

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

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Voltaire and Rousseau

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Holland in the 17th century

- Money in different Forms

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Ideal and Reality

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The golden Age / Dream Days

by Harald Wessbecher

a pictoure tour

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

Don Quixote

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Forgers

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Madame Bovary

Filmduration: 72 minutes

On Human Relations

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

a coin tour

Wuthering Heights

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Filmduration: 20 minutes

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

beautiful High Relief Coinage

a picture tour

Erewhon

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

Filmduration: 52 minutes

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

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

Four books on measurement

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Change of Climate as trigger

Money defined in seven categories

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

a picture tour

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

Meistererzählungen

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

A short statement

By Günter Hoffmann

a coin tour

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

a coin tour

in the money markets

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

1816: The year without a Summer

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Self-portrait

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

Table talk

Mrs Jenny Treibel

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

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

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

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Filmduration: 39 minutes

a video podcast

by Andreas Urs Sommer

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Middlemarch

a podcast of the year in 1527

a picture tour

a coin tour

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

The poor man in Tockenburg

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Vanity Fair

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Master Tales

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

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

Collected Fairy Tales

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

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

Stiller

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

The Scarlet Letter

Bel-Ami

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Published 1948

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

a coin tour

of Switzerland.

a picture tour

The Decameron

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Pride and Prejudice

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

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

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

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

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

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

Meistererzählungen

in Classical Antiquity

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Idiot

a coin podcast

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

by Lukas M. Schneider

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

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

Oblomow

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

An analysis on social justice

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

a picture tour

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

Radetzkymarsch

Satyricon

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

Walden or Life in the Woods

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Jane Eyre

Consolation of Philosophy

a picture tour

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Effi Briest

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

by Carol Schwyzer

Stopfkuchen.

a coin tour

a coin tour

a coin tour

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

of the MoneyMuseum

Features of the Human Face on Coins

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Il Milione

Aldous Huxley

- The Yen

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Old Goriot

a coin tour

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

of the MoneyMuseum

Introduction Roman Republic

Sense and Sensibility

The Beautiful and the Damned

- Respectable and Trustworthy

for the investor

by Herbert George Wells

visually explained

AudioGuide Roman Republic

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

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