Stories

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

in Classical Antiquity

by Dagmar Lorenz

Short video on how to attain it

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Master Tales

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

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

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

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

... and its Relation to Money

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

of the MoneyMuseum

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

a pictoure tour

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

for the investor

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

a video podcast

- Islamic Money

- Respectable and Trustworthy

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Animal Farm

Nero‘s Propaganda

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

a coin tour

by Robert Schneebeli

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

a picture tour

Consolation of Philosophy

a coin tour

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

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

Jane Eyre

a coin tour

- Money in different Forms

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Travel around the World in 80 Days

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

a view from history

a video podcast

The golden Age / Dream Days

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

- from the Vikings until today

- The Yen

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

The Idiot

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Filmduration: 29 minutes

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a picture tour

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Master Tales

Madame Bovary

AudioGuide Roman Republic

New Atlas, 1710

a picture tour

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

a video podcast

Collection MoneyMuseum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Old Goriot

a picture tour

Aldous Huxley

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Robinson Crusoe

a coin tour

Ideal and Reality

Tewje, the Milkman

Physiognomic Fragments

a coin tour

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Oblomow

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

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

Middlemarch

a coin tour

Filmduration: 72 minutes

a coin tour

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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

By Katrin Schär

Il Milione

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

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

Wuthering Heights

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Who wanted the crusades?

Stopfkuchen.

a picture tour

Charles Baudelaire

Bel-Ami

Filmduration: 21 minutes

The Scarlet Letter

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

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

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

a picture tour

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

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

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

a picture tour

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

Self-portrait

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

by Lukas M. Schneider

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

a coin tour

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Don Quixote

... since when has money been in existence?

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

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

by Peter Wolf

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

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

a coin podcast

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

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

a picture tour

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Gotha numaria, 1730

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

a podcast of the year in 1527

two examples

a coin tour

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

a coin tour

a picture tour

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

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

A short statement

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

Fahrenheit 451

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Mrs Jenny Treibel

The Martian Chronicles

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

I Ging

The Great Gatsby

visually explained

The city

An analysis on social justice

Vanity Fair

- the Basis for Everyday Money

5th Century B.C. Athens

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Max Havelaar

a chart service for the investor

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Milan between 1412 and 1447

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

a coin-podcast

Stiller

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

The sea wolf

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

Walden or Life in the Woods

A successful concept for the investor

Published 1948

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

A Christmas Carol

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

of Switzerland.

Change of Climate as trigger

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Brigitta and other tales

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Sonnets

by Andreas Urs Sommer

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

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

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Holland in the 17th century

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

On Human Relations

of the MoneyMuseum

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

eine Bildertour

beautiful High Relief Coinage

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

Canterbury Tales

Voltaire and Rousseau

Effi Briest

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Clarissa Harlowe

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

Satyricon

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

The medieval world order

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

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

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

Les Misérables

a picture tour

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Sense and Sensibility

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

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

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

Erewhon

15 stories

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

a coin tour

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

of the MoneyMuseum

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

1816: The year without a Summer

Reminiscences

Moby Dick

© Andreas Platthaus

a picture tour

The Forgers

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Conversation Book

Money defined in seven categories

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

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

a video podcast

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Der Steppenwolf

The first opportunity to handle money …

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?

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

Pride and Prejudice

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

By Günter Hoffmann

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

a coin tour

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Meistererzählungen

Carmen

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

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

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Four books on measurement

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

... on justice and freedom of action

of the MoneyMuseum

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

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

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

The Turn of the Screw

a coin tour

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

The Beautiful and the Damned

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

by Harald Wessbecher

Filmduration: 20 minutes

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Great Expectations

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Meistererzählungen

a coin tour

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

a coin tour

by Herbert George Wells

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

by Carol Schwyzer

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Germinal

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

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

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

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

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

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

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

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

publiziert 1716

Youth without God

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

ThurnierBuch, 1532

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

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Filmduration: 52 minutes

The Decameron

The poor man in Tockenburg

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

a picture tour

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

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

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

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

a picture tour

a chart service for the investor

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

... and its consequences

Collected Fairy Tales

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

by Ursula Kampmann

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Treasure Island

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

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

A report from Ruanda

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

The Maltese Falcon

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

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

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

in the money markets

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

a picture tour

a picture tour

Radetzkymarsch

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Introduction Roman Republic

Table talk