archive of documents

a coin tour

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

Stiller

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

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

by Peter Wolf

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

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

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

a picture tour

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

a coin tour

a chart service for the investor

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

The Turn of the Screw

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

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

Aldous Huxley

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

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

a video podcast

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

a picture tour

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

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

15 stories

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

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

of the MoneyMuseum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Published 1948

by Dagmar Lorenz

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

a coin tour

a picture tour

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

- Money in different Forms

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

Filmduration: 20 minutes

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

a picture tour

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

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

New Atlas, 1710

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

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Old Goriot

Get an answer in 90 seconds

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.

Wuthering Heights

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

– the Birth of Tolerance

The first opportunity to handle money …

Satyricon

a podcast of the year in 1527

a coin tour

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

publiziert 1716

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

Change of Climate as trigger

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Mrs Jenny Treibel

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

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

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

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

... since when has money been in existence?

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

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

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

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

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Money defined in seven categories

Meistererzählungen

financial markets and the virtuality of values

a coin tour

Stopfkuchen.

By Katrin Schär

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

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Robinson Crusoe

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

a picture tour

Madame Bovary

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Meistererzählungen

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

J. R. R. Tolkien

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

a video podcast

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Short video on how to attain it

a coin tour

a picture tour

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

in the money markets

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

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

of the MoneyMuseum

- Respectable and Trustworthy

a picture tour

Ideal and Reality

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

The Decameron

a video podcast

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Tewje, the Milkman

Walden or Life in the Woods

a picture tour

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a picture tour

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

by Herbert George Wells

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

The poor man in Tockenburg

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

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Max Havelaar

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

for the investor

by Marcus Junkelmann

a picture tour

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

... and its Relation to Money

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

1816: The year without a Summer

by Harald Wessbecher

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

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

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

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

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

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

by Robert Schneebeli

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

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Sonnets

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

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

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Vanity Fair

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

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

a video podcast

of Switzerland.

The Beautiful and the Damned

a coin tour

Brigitta and other tales

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

By Günter Hoffmann

The Martian Chronicles

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

in Classical Antiquity

I Ging

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

Master Tales

a view from history

Jane Eyre

Collection MoneyMuseum

The golden Age / Dream Days

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Youth without God

The Maltese Falcon

The medieval world order

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

Pride and Prejudice

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

of the MoneyMuseum

A report from Ruanda

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

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Don Quixote

a picture tour

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

Carmen

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The Great Gatsby

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

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

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Der Steppenwolf

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

by Ursula Kampmann

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Radetzkymarsch

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Videoduration: 15 minutes

The city

two examples

Sense and Sensibility

eine Bildertour

a coin tour

Charles Baudelaire

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

The Idiot

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

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

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Holland in the 17th century

a pictoure tour

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

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

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

The Forgers

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

Four books on measurement

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

Erewhon

Fahrenheit 451

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

visually explained

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

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

a coin tour

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

Treasure Island

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Oblomow

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Clarissa Harlowe

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Great Expectations

Moby Dick

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

On Human Relations

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Introduction Roman Republic

The Scarlet Letter

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

- Islamic Money

Animal Farm

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

Reminiscences

A Christmas Carol

Physiognomic Fragments

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Filmduration: 21 minutes

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Les Misérables

Effi Briest

Self-portrait

a picture tour

Bel-Ami

Voltaire and Rousseau

- The Yen

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

beautiful High Relief Coinage

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Il Milione

Collected Fairy Tales

Middlemarch

An analysis on social justice

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Germinal

a coin tour

Gotha numaria, 1730

Consolation of Philosophy

by Lukas M. Schneider

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

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

a picture tour

A successful concept for the investor

Who wanted the crusades?

a coin podcast

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Milan between 1412 and 1447

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

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

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

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

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

a coin tour

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

a chart service for the investor

Nero‘s Propaganda

... and its consequences

a coin-podcast

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

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

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

... on justice and freedom of action

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

The sea wolf

a coin tour

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

Table talk

- from the Vikings until today

by Carol Schwyzer

Conversation Book

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Master Tales

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

A short statement

of the MoneyMuseum

© Andreas Platthaus

Canterbury Tales

Filmduration: 34 minutes

a coin tour

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.