Stories

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

The Forgers

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Animal Farm

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Les Misérables

a coin tour

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

Satyricon

Ideal and Reality

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Holland in the 17th century

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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

Erewhon

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Bel-Ami

15 stories

The Martian Chronicles

- Money in different Forms

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

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Sonnets

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

visually explained

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

Conversation Book

a coin tour

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

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

a picture tour

Gotha numaria, 1730

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Travel around the World in 80 Days

a video podcast

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

Roman Republic - The Roman army as the base 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.

Radetzkymarsch

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Nero‘s Propaganda

Collection MoneyMuseum

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

A report from Ruanda

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

Collected Fairy Tales

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

a coin tour

The Idiot

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

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

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

The Turn of the Screw

Germinal

Brigitta and other tales

a video podcast

Il Milione

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

a coin tour

by Herbert George Wells

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

a coin tour

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

a coin tour

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

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

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

two examples

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Self-portrait

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Meistererzählungen

By Günter Hoffmann

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

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

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin podcast

AudioGuide Roman Republic

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Wuthering Heights

Published 1948

Filmduration: 21 minutes

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

- Islamic Money

The first opportunity to handle money …

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

a coin tour

a video podcast

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

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

a picture tour

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

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

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

a coin tour

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Table talk

Four books on measurement

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Features of the Human Face on Coins

a picture tour

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

I Ging

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Don Quixote

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

a video podcast

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Max Havelaar

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Reminiscences

Middlemarch

... since when has money been in existence?

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

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

by Peter Wolf

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Youth without God

Voltaire and Rousseau

Der Besuch der alten Dame

AudioGuide Roman Republic

publiziert 1716

... on justice and freedom of action

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

Master Tales

Der Steppenwolf

by Lukas M. Schneider

Effi Briest

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

a coin-podcast

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

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

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Canterbury Tales

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

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Filmduration: 39 minutes

a coin tour

The poor man in Tockenburg

Treasure Island

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

by Andreas Urs Sommer

On Human Relations

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

a chart service for the investor

for the investor

Mrs Jenny Treibel

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

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

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

a picture tour

Filmduration: 72 minutes

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Jane Eyre

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Change of Climate as trigger

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Tewje, the Milkman

Meistererzählungen

a coin tour

Master Tales

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

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

Fahrenheit 451

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The golden Age / Dream Days

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

The Scarlet Letter

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

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Physiognomic Fragments

A successful concept for the investor

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

© Andreas Platthaus

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Get an answer in 90 seconds

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

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

by Dagmar Lorenz

Short video on how to attain it

... and its Relation to Money

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

a picture tour

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

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

a chart service for the investor

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

a picture tour

Vanity Fair

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a picture tour

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

Stiller

a picture tour

by Robert Schneebeli

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Old Goriot

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

a picture tour

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Stopfkuchen.

a view from history

Clarissa Harlowe

a podcast of the year in 1527

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Walden or Life in the Woods

of Switzerland.

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

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

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

A short statement

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

of the MoneyMuseum

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

of the MoneyMuseum

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

The medieval world order

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a coin tour

beautiful High Relief Coinage

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

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

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

a picture tour

a coin tour

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Milan between 1412 and 1447

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

The city

– the Birth of Tolerance

a picture tour

Oblomow

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

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

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

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

... and its consequences

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

Money defined in seven categories

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

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

Sense and Sensibility

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

by Carol Schwyzer

Filmduration: 23 minutes

By Katrin Schär

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

A Christmas Carol

a pictoure tour

The Beautiful and the Damned

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Filmduration: 29 minutes

The Decameron

a picture tour

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

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

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

Aldous Huxley

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Introduction Roman Republic

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Filmduration: 52 minutes

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

in the money markets

a coin tour

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

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

a coin tour

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

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

Madame Bovary

by Harald Wessbecher

1816: The year without a Summer

Consolation of Philosophy

Carmen

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Pride and Prejudice

a coin tour

of the MoneyMuseum

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Robinson Crusoe

New Atlas, 1710

Great Expectations

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

- The Yen

- from the Vikings until today

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

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

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

The Great Gatsby

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

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

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Moby Dick

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

The sea wolf

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

The Maltese Falcon

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

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

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Who wanted the crusades?

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

by Ursula Kampmann

a picture tour

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

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

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

in Classical Antiquity

An analysis on social justice

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

eine Bildertour

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

J. R. R. Tolkien

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Charles Baudelaire