Stories

Old Goriot

The Decameron

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

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

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

in Classical Antiquity

two examples

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

a coin tour

a picture tour

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

a coin tour

1816: The year without a Summer

a coin tour

Features of the Human Face on Coins

... since when has money been in existence?

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

Voltaire and Rousseau

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Collection MoneyMuseum

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

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

The first opportunity to handle money …

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

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Filmduration: 23 minutes

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

A short statement

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

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

15 stories

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Sonnets

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Gotha numaria, 1730

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

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Il Milione

a coin tour

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

of Switzerland.

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

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

a picture tour

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

a picture tour

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

J. R. R. Tolkien

Don Quixote

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

a coin tour

- from the Vikings until today

a pictoure tour

Money defined in seven categories

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

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

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

The poor man in Tockenburg

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

By Günter Hoffmann

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Der Steppenwolf

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Germinal

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

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

Who wanted the crusades?

a coin tour

by Robert Schneebeli

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

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

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

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

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

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

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

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Published 1948

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

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Filmduration: 39 minutes

of the MoneyMuseum

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

a coin tour

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

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

Canterbury Tales

a picture tour

Change of Climate as trigger

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

An analysis on social justice

A report from Ruanda

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

a coin tour

Robinson Crusoe

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

a coin-podcast

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Carol Schwyzer

Filmduration: 7 minutes

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

Physiognomic Fragments

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

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

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

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

Conversation Book

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

The Forgers

New Atlas, 1710

Carmen

a picture tour

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

by Peter Wolf

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a view from history

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Radetzkymarsch

Moby Dick

Aldous Huxley

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

A successful concept for the investor

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

eine Bildertour

- Islamic Money

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Middlemarch

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

Animal Farm

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

The city

a coin tour

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

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

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

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

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

Four books on measurement

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Collected Fairy Tales

Short video on how to attain it

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

a video podcast

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Filmduration: 52 minutes

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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

The Maltese Falcon

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

in the money markets

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Meistererzählungen

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

I Ging

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

of the MoneyMuseum

- Respectable and Trustworthy

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

publiziert 1716

By Katrin Schär

a picture tour

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

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

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Fahrenheit 451

Great Expectations

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

The Turn of the Screw

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

Introduction Roman Republic

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

a coin tour

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

by Ursula Kampmann

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a picture tour

beautiful High Relief Coinage

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

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

Wuthering Heights

The Scarlet Letter

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

a video podcast

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

The Beautiful and the Damned

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Table talk

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

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

a chart service for the investor

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

- Money in different Forms

Erewhon

Bel-Ami

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Youth without God

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

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

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

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

Master Tales

Max Havelaar

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

5th Century B.C. Athens

visually explained

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

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

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

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

A Christmas Carol

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The sea wolf

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Get an answer in 90 seconds

The golden Age / Dream Days

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

Effi Briest

for the investor

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Satyricon

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

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Meistererzählungen

a video podcast

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

Vanity Fair

a picture tour

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

a chart service for the investor

Sense and Sensibility

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

The Idiot

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

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

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Milan between 1412 and 1447

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

a picture tour

The Martian Chronicles

Treasure Island

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

a coin tour

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Tewje, the Milkman

of the MoneyMuseum

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

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

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

Stiller

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

by Herbert George Wells

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Stopfkuchen.

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

a podcast of the year in 1527

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

On Human Relations

a coin tour

Pride and Prejudice

Madame Bovary

The Great Gatsby

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Ideal and Reality

a picture tour

Les Misérables

a picture tour

... on justice and freedom of action

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

Master Tales

Filmduration: 20 minutes

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

a coin podcast

ThurnierBuch, 1532

© Andreas Platthaus

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Clarissa Harlowe

a video podcast

a picture tour

Walden or Life in the Woods

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

by Harald Wessbecher

by Lukas M. Schneider

Consolation of Philosophy

Charles Baudelaire

The medieval world order

- The Yen

a picture tour

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

... and its Relation to Money

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

... and its consequences

a coin tour

by Dagmar Lorenz

Oblomow

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Self-portrait

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Holland in the 17th century

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

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

Jane Eyre

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

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

Brigitta and other tales

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Reminiscences

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

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

a coin tour

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

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