archive of documents

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

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

– the Birth of Tolerance

of Switzerland.

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

- Money in different Forms

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

a coin tour

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

a picture tour

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

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

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

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Milan between 1412 and 1447

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

a picture tour

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

a picture tour

eine Bildertour

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

a picture tour

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

I Ging

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

a picture tour

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

a coin tour

beautiful High Relief Coinage

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

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

a picture tour

Filmduration: 32 minutes

a coin tour

- the Basis for Everyday Money

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

a video podcast

... and its consequences

a coin tour

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

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

a picture tour

a coin tour

by Robert Schneebeli

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

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Filmduration: 21 minutes

a picture tour

By Günter Hoffmann

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

visually explained

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

by Peter Wolf

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Nero‘s Propaganda

a coin tour

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

in Classical Antiquity

... since when has money been in existence?

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

a coin podcast

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a picture tour

a coin-podcast

a video podcast

a video podcast

two examples

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

by Dagmar Lorenz

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

- from the Vikings until today

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

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

a picture tour

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

a view from history

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

a coin tour

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

a coin tour

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

- Islamic Money

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

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

- The Yen

Filmduration: 72 minutes

a picture tour

a coin tour

15 stories

a picture tour

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

a coin tour

a video podcast

Holland in the 17th century

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

a picture tour

By Katrin Schär

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

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

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Filmduration: 29 minutes

a coin tour

a coin tour

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

a pictoure tour

a podcast of the year in 1527

a coin tour

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

5th Century B.C. Athens

a coin tour