Stories

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Self-portrait

a coin tour

The Idiot

Consolation of Philosophy

a coin tour

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

A short statement

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

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

Meistererzählungen

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Master Tales

Walden or Life in the Woods

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

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

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

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

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

The Decameron

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

a video podcast

publiziert 1716

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

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

A successful concept for the investor

by Robert Schneebeli

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a video podcast

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

Sonnets

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

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

a picture tour

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

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

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Money defined in seven categories

eine Bildertour

Satyricon

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

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

a picture tour

Introduction Roman Republic

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

The Beautiful and the Damned

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

The Turn of the Screw

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

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Madame Bovary

a picture tour

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

A report from Ruanda

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

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

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

A Christmas Carol

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Il Milione

Conversation Book

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

I Ging

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

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

of the MoneyMuseum

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Robinson Crusoe

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

a chart service for the investor

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

An analysis on social justice

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Effi Briest

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Nero‘s Propaganda

Holland in the 17th century

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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?

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

a chart service for the investor

a coin tour

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

by Lukas M. Schneider

of the MoneyMuseum

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

... and its consequences

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

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

by Peter Wolf

Ideal and Reality

in the money markets

a coin tour

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

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

Don Quixote

a pictoure tour

The poor man in Tockenburg

a coin tour

Filmduration: 72 minutes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

a coin tour

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

of the MoneyMuseum

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

of the MoneyMuseum

Carmen

a coin tour

a picture tour

Jane Eyre

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Change of Climate as trigger

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

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

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

a video podcast

Filmduration: 21 minutes

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

The first opportunity to handle money …

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a coin tour

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

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

... on justice and freedom of action

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

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

a picture tour

a coin podcast

Who wanted the crusades?

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

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

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

a coin tour

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

Physiognomic Fragments

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Filmduration: 7 minutes

by Herbert George Wells

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

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

by Marcus Junkelmann

a picture tour

The Maltese Falcon

Moby Dick

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

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

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

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

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

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

Treasure Island

Germinal

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Filmduration: 20 minutes

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

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

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Pride and Prejudice

The Great Gatsby

Canterbury Tales

The city

The medieval world order

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Bel-Ami

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Max Havelaar

Published 1948

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

a picture tour

a picture tour

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Erewhon

a coin tour

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Voltaire and Rousseau

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

Stopfkuchen.

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

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

- The Yen

Aldous Huxley

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

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

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

15 stories

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

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Animal Farm

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Table talk

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Get an answer in 90 seconds

a coin-podcast

- Money in different Forms

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

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

a picture tour

Brigitta and other tales

1816: The year without a Summer

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

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

of the MoneyMuseum

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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

By Günter Hoffmann

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

Master Tales

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

The sea wolf

Mrs Jenny Treibel

a coin tour

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Les Misérables

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

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

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

by Dagmar Lorenz

a coin tour

- Islamic Money

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

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

... and its Relation to Money

On Human Relations

Short video on how to attain it

Filmduration: 34 minutes

5th Century B.C. Athens

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Wuthering Heights

Clarissa Harlowe

Old Goriot

by Harald Wessbecher

The golden Age / Dream Days

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Charles Baudelaire

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

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

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

Gotha numaria, 1730

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

a picture tour

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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"

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Stiller

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Collection MoneyMuseum

Milan between 1412 and 1447

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

by Andreas Urs Sommer

a picture tour

Radetzkymarsch

Vanity Fair

by Carol Schwyzer

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

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?

a video podcast

Reminiscences

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

a view from history

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

in Classical Antiquity

Collected Fairy Tales

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Tewje, the Milkman

Meistererzählungen

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

Four books on measurement

Der Steppenwolf

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

by Ursula Kampmann

... since when has money been in existence?

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Fahrenheit 451

beautiful High Relief Coinage

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

ThurnierBuch, 1532

a coin tour

Sense and Sensibility

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

Youth without God

The Scarlet Letter

a coin tour

Middlemarch

a picture tour

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

The Martian Chronicles

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

a picture tour

- from the Vikings until today

J. R. R. Tolkien

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

for the investor

a picture tour

Oblomow

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Videoduration: 15 minutes

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

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.

a coin tour

Great Expectations

of Switzerland.

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

© Andreas Platthaus

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

By Katrin Schär

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

two examples

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Filmduration: 52 minutes

New Atlas, 1710

visually explained

The Forgers