Stories

The Great Gatsby

a picture tour

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

a coin tour

... and its consequences

a coin tour

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

of the MoneyMuseum

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Sense and Sensibility

© Andreas Platthaus

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Carmen

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

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Vanity Fair

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

a picture tour

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Charles Baudelaire

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

The Idiot

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

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

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

by Ursula Kampmann

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Self-portrait

Gotha numaria, 1730

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

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

Milan between 1412 and 1447

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

The Decameron

a coin-podcast

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

of the MoneyMuseum

The Martian Chronicles

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a video podcast

By Katrin Schär

of Switzerland.

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

a coin tour

J. R. R. Tolkien

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

a pictoure tour

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

a picture tour

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Animal Farm

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Stopfkuchen.

Videoduration: 15 minutes

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

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

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

A Christmas Carol

By Günter Hoffmann

Youth without God

Bel-Ami

a video podcast

a video podcast

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

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

a picture tour

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

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

Wuthering Heights

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

- Islamic Money

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Stiller

Il Milione

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

of the MoneyMuseum

... and its Relation to Money

Change of Climate as trigger

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

eine Bildertour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

a picture tour

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

The Beautiful and the Damned

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

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Robinson Crusoe

Don Quixote

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

Fahrenheit 451

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

The golden Age / Dream Days

The poor man in Tockenburg

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

a view from history

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

Aldous Huxley

The Scarlet Letter

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

The medieval world order

by Peter Wolf

Collection MoneyMuseum

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

by Herbert George Wells

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

The Forgers

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

The sea wolf

in Classical Antiquity

The first opportunity to handle money …

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

a coin tour

An analysis on social justice

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Germinal

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Table talk

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

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Pride and Prejudice

The city

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

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

Moby Dick

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

by Robert Schneebeli

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a coin tour

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

I Ging

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

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

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Mrs Jenny Treibel

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

A report from Ruanda

a picture tour

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

two examples

Brigitta and other tales

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

a coin tour

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

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

by Harald Wessbecher

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?

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Oblomow

Conversation Book

a coin tour

Four books on measurement

Who wanted the crusades?

Holland in the 17th century

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

a coin tour

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Ideal and Reality

Canterbury Tales

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Madame Bovary

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

Clarissa Harlowe

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

ThurnierBuch, 1532

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

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

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

A successful concept for the investor

The Turn of the Screw

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Effi Briest

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

a coin tour

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

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

15 stories

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Walden or Life in the Woods

... since when has money been in existence?

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

by Dagmar Lorenz

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

by Lukas M. Schneider

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a video podcast

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Introduction Roman Republic

for the investor

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

a coin tour

... on justice and freedom of action

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

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

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Published 1948

Great Expectations

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

a picture tour

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Der Steppenwolf

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

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

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

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

Jane Eyre

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

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

- The Yen

Les Misérables

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

a picture tour

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Satyricon

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

a picture tour

– the Birth of Tolerance

Master Tales

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

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

a coin tour

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Sonnets

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

by Carol Schwyzer

a picture tour

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Meistererzählungen

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

a picture tour

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

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

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

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

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

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

Master Tales

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

a chart service for the investor

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

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

a picture tour

Reminiscences

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

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

Tewje, the Milkman

a coin tour

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

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

New Atlas, 1710

of the MoneyMuseum

Treasure Island

Old Goriot

a picture tour

in the money markets

Meistererzählungen

A short statement

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Erewhon

The Maltese Falcon

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

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

a picture tour

Voltaire and Rousseau

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

a podcast of the year in 1527

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

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

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

Money defined in seven categories

On Human Relations

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

visually explained

Features of the Human Face on Coins

- the Basis for Everyday Money

a coin tour

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

a coin tour

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Travel around the World in 80 Days

a coin tour

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Max Havelaar

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

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

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

Filmduration: 20 minutes

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

Filmduration: 52 minutes

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

a coin podcast

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

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

of the MoneyMuseum

- from the Vikings until today

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

- Money in different Forms

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

Short video on how to attain it

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

1816: The year without a Summer

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

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

a picture tour

Radetzkymarsch

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a chart service for the investor

Physiognomic Fragments

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Middlemarch

Collected Fairy Tales

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

publiziert 1716

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

Consolation of Philosophy

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Filmduration: 32 minutes