Stories

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Voltaire and Rousseau

Clarissa Harlowe

Physiognomic Fragments

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

a coin tour

Videoduration: 15 minutes

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

Master Tales

- Islamic Money

a pictoure tour

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

publiziert 1716

a coin podcast

Tewje, the Milkman

a coin tour

Don Quixote

J. R. R. Tolkien

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Great Expectations

by Herbert George Wells

Travel around the World in 80 Days

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

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

Short video on how to attain it

of the MoneyMuseum

Animal Farm

Wuthering Heights

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

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

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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

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

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

two examples

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Oblomow

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Meistererzählungen

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Brigitta and other tales

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

by Robert Schneebeli

financial markets and the virtuality of values

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

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

... since when has money been in existence?

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

The Forgers

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Great Gatsby

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

a video podcast

The Martian Chronicles

a coin tour

of the MoneyMuseum

Charles Baudelaire

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

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

visually explained

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

Bel-Ami

Reminiscences

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Filmduration: 21 minutes

The city

The Beautiful and the Damned

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

a picture tour

5th Century B.C. Athens

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Moby Dick

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

a coin tour

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

a picture tour

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Table talk

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

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Germinal

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

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

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

On Human Relations

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

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

Max Havelaar

Carmen

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

AudioGuide Roman Republic

I Ging

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

a coin tour

Change of Climate as trigger

The Turn of the Screw

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

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

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

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Old Goriot

Published 1948

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

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

The Maltese Falcon

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

Effi Briest

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

in Classical Antiquity

Stiller

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

An analysis on social justice

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

The medieval world order

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

Satyricon

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

of Switzerland.

- The Yen

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

By Günter Hoffmann

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

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

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

a picture tour

Il Milione

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Money defined in seven categories

Fahrenheit 451

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

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

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

Introduction Roman Republic

Middlemarch

in the money markets

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Nero‘s Propaganda

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

a picture tour

Treasure Island

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

Canterbury Tales

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

Self-portrait

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

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Jane Eyre

A report from Ruanda

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

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

a coin tour

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

The Scarlet Letter

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

A short statement

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

for the investor

Aldous Huxley

Holland in the 17th century

a picture tour

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

a picture tour

a picture tour

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

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

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

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

The Idiot

Vanity Fair

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

a picture tour

a picture tour

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

a coin tour

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

by Ursula Kampmann

of the MoneyMuseum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a chart service for the investor

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

a coin tour

A successful concept for the investor

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Youth without God

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Meistererzählungen

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

Collection MoneyMuseum

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

a picture tour

Filmduration: 52 minutes

eine Bildertour

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

© Andreas Platthaus

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

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

a chart service for the investor

Conversation Book

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Radetzkymarsch

Gotha numaria, 1730

Ideal and Reality

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Der Steppenwolf

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

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

1816: The year without a Summer

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

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

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

a video podcast

a picture tour

by Carol Schwyzer

Sonnets

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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.

Milan between 1412 and 1447

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Four books on measurement

by Andreas Urs Sommer

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

a view from history

Les Misérables

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

... on justice and freedom of action

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

... and its Relation to Money

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

a coin-podcast

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

a coin tour

by Peter Wolf

Erewhon

Walden or Life in the Woods

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

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

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

Filmduration: 20 minutes

A Christmas Carol

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Pride and Prejudice

a coin tour

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

... and its consequences

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

a picture tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Madame Bovary

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

beautiful High Relief Coinage

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Filmduration: 39 minutes

By Katrin Schär

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

The sea wolf

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

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

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

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Robinson Crusoe

a video podcast

The poor man in Tockenburg

Filmduration: 32 minutes

15 stories

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

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

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

Who wanted the crusades?

The Decameron

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

a coin tour

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

Sense and Sensibility

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a picture tour

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

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

Stopfkuchen.

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

New Atlas, 1710

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

by Harald Wessbecher

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

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

of the MoneyMuseum

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

a video podcast

Consolation of Philosophy

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

a coin tour

a coin tour

The first opportunity to handle money …

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Collected Fairy Tales

a podcast of the year in 1527

a coin tour

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

- from the Vikings until today

Thus spoke Zarathustra

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

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

Master Tales

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

- Money in different Forms

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Filmduration: 7 minutes

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?