Digging in the archive

By Katrin Schär

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

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

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

a coin tour

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

a picture tour

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Filmduration: 32 minutes

by Dagmar Lorenz

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Filmduration: 34 minutes

a coin tour

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

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

a video podcast

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

a video podcast

a picture tour

a picture tour

a video podcast

a coin tour

Filmduration: 29 minutes

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

of Switzerland.

a picture tour

a picture tour

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

by Lukas M. Schneider

a coin tour

beautiful High Relief Coinage

in Classical Antiquity

a video podcast

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

By Günter Hoffmann

a picture tour

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

visually explained

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Holland in the 17th century

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a coin tour

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

a coin tour

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

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

a coin tour

two examples

- Respectable and Trustworthy

- the Basis for Everyday Money

of the MoneyMuseum

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

a coin tour

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

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

a coin tour

- The Yen

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

a coin-podcast

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

... since when has money been in existence?

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

by Robert Schneebeli

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

a picture tour

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

- Money in different Forms

a picture tour

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

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

a picture tour

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a picture tour

a coin tour

a coin podcast

a coin tour

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

a coin tour

- from the Vikings until today

- Islamic Money

a picture tour

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

a view from history

– the Birth of Tolerance

eine Bildertour

... and its consequences

a picture tour

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

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

I Ging

by Peter Wolf

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

15 stories

a coin tour

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

a coin tour

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

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

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

a pictoure tour

a coin tour

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

a picture tour