Stories

Pride and Prejudice

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Charles Baudelaire

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

by Herbert George Wells

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Ideal and Reality

Consolation of Philosophy

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

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

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

An analysis on social justice

... on justice and freedom of action

Physiognomic Fragments

for the investor

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

a coin tour

a picture tour

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Moby Dick

The Martian Chronicles

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Collected Fairy Tales

a picture tour

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Who wanted the crusades?

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

by Andreas Urs Sommer

a video podcast

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

Holland in the 17th century

visually explained

Don Quixote

a coin podcast

Jane Eyre

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

© Andreas Platthaus

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Satyricon

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

a chart service for the investor

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

A report from Ruanda

by Marcus Junkelmann

Robinson Crusoe

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

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

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

Middlemarch

a coin tour

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

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

Il Milione

Filmduration: 72 minutes

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Four books on measurement

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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

a picture tour

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

New Atlas, 1710

A Christmas Carol

a coin tour

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a video podcast

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

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

a coin tour

a picture tour

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

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

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

Walden or Life in the Woods

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

The golden Age / Dream Days

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

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

Erewhon

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Sonnets

Tewje, the Milkman

Gotha numaria, 1730

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

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Youth without God

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

a picture tour

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Germinal

Animal Farm

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

- Money in different Forms

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Old Goriot

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

- The Yen

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

By Katrin Schär

The Scarlet Letter

Nero‘s Propaganda

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

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

The Turn of the Screw

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Meistererzählungen

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

a picture tour

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

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

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

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Les Misérables

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

– the Birth of Tolerance

A successful concept for the investor

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

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

The Forgers

by Ursula Kampmann

a view from history

publiziert 1716

Change of Climate as trigger

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Mrs Jenny Treibel

A short statement

a video podcast

a coin tour

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

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

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

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

The first opportunity to handle money …

Madame Bovary

Table talk

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

a video podcast

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

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

a coin tour

a coin tour

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

Collection MoneyMuseum

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

a coin tour

The poor man in Tockenburg

a coin tour

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

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

The Maltese Falcon

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Voltaire and Rousseau

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Filmduration: 20 minutes

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

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

a pictoure tour

The Idiot

The city

Short video on how to attain it

The Great Gatsby

a picture tour

... and its Relation to Money

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Great Expectations

of Switzerland.

... since when has money been in existence?

Filmduration: 52 minutes

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

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

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

Meistererzählungen

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

The Beautiful and the Damned

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

AudioGuide Roman Republic

a coin tour

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

The sea wolf

a chart service for the investor

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Canterbury Tales

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

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

in the money markets

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

a coin tour

Vanity Fair

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

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

1816: The year without a Summer

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

a picture tour

two examples

Radetzkymarsch

Effi Briest

By Günter Hoffmann

of the MoneyMuseum

by Dagmar Lorenz

financial markets and the virtuality of values

15 stories

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Oblomow

of the MoneyMuseum

Treasure Island

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

by Harald Wessbecher

a picture tour

Clarissa Harlowe

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Brigitta and other tales

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

- from the Vikings until today

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

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Filmduration: 21 minutes

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

a coin-podcast

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

a picture tour

by Peter Wolf

5th Century B.C. Athens

in Classical Antiquity

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

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

a picture tour

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

eine Bildertour

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

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Filmduration: 39 minutes

The Decameron

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

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Master Tales

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Der Steppenwolf

Aldous Huxley

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

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

Thus spoke Zarathustra

by Lukas M. Schneider

a picture tour

of the MoneyMuseum

Fahrenheit 451

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

I Ging

a coin tour

Stopfkuchen.

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

of the MoneyMuseum

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

Reminiscences

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Introduction Roman Republic

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

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

On Human Relations

Money defined in seven categories

Get an answer in 90 seconds

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Sense and Sensibility

a picture tour

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

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

by Carol Schwyzer

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

a coin tour

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

... and its consequences

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?

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

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

a coin tour

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

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Wuthering Heights

Bel-Ami

Max Havelaar

by Robert Schneebeli

Master Tales

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Conversation Book

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

a picture tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

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

The medieval world order

Published 1948

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Stiller

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

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

Carmen

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

- Islamic Money

Self-portrait

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill