Stories

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

New Atlas, 1710

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

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

On Human Relations

- from the Vikings until today

Filmduration: 29 minutes

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

a coin tour

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

of the MoneyMuseum

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

a coin tour

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

The city

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

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

a picture tour

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Change of Climate as trigger

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

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

A report from Ruanda

The Martian Chronicles

Don Quixote

Who wanted the crusades?

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

a video podcast

of Switzerland.

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Collection MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

Reminiscences

Filmduration: 32 minutes

... since when has money been in existence?

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Canterbury Tales

By Katrin Schär

Treasure Island

a picture tour

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

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

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

Tewje, the Milkman

... on justice and freedom of action

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

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

Bel-Ami

Satyricon

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

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

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

... and its Relation to Money

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

Walden or Life in the Woods

J. R. R. Tolkien

- Money in different Forms

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

in the money markets

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

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

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Fahrenheit 451

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

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

By Günter Hoffmann

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

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

The Idiot

a chart service for the investor

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Filmduration: 7 minutes

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

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Animal Farm

two examples

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

by Ursula Kampmann

The Decameron

of the MoneyMuseum

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

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

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

a coin tour

a coin tour

Table talk

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

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

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

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Self-portrait

a coin tour

by Peter Wolf

Master Tales

Nero‘s Propaganda

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Consolation of Philosophy

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Published 1948

Les Misérables

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Vanity Fair

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Carmen

by Andreas Urs Sommer

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

by Robert Schneebeli

visually explained

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

a podcast of the year in 1527

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Thus spoke Zarathustra

a picture tour

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

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

publiziert 1716

a coin tour

- Islamic Money

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Robinson Crusoe

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Collected Fairy Tales

a coin tour

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

- The Yen

Voltaire and Rousseau

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

a picture tour

eine Bildertour

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

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Youth without God

Introduction Roman Republic

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

a picture tour

a chart service for the investor

by Lukas M. Schneider

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

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

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

The medieval world order

Ideal and Reality

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

Oblomow

A Christmas Carol

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

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

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

a picture tour

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

a coin podcast

The Forgers

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Il Milione

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Sonnets

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

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

a video podcast

... and its consequences

Filmduration: 23 minutes

a coin tour

- the Basis for Everyday Money

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

The sea wolf

Clarissa Harlowe

The first opportunity to handle money …

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

a coin tour

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

a video podcast

a coin tour

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

15 stories

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

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

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

I Ging

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

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

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

a coin tour

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

Max Havelaar

a coin tour

Master Tales

by Carol Schwyzer

Holland in the 17th century

Brigitta and other tales

Videoduration: 15 minutes

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The Scarlet Letter

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

Erewhon

a view from history

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

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Stiller

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Meistererzählungen

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

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

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

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

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

by Herbert George Wells

Der Steppenwolf

1816: The year without a Summer

The Turn of the Screw

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Wuthering Heights

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Gotha numaria, 1730

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

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

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

by Harald Wessbecher

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

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

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

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

Middlemarch

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

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

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

a coin-podcast

a picture tour

Germinal

Conversation Book

Great Expectations

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

5th Century B.C. Athens

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

The Beautiful and the Damned

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

a coin tour

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

Short video on how to attain it

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

a picture tour

Charles Baudelaire

Sense and Sensibility

Moby Dick

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Stopfkuchen.

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

Jane Eyre

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

Filmduration: 52 minutes

a coin tour

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

in Classical Antiquity

a picture tour

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

a picture tour

The poor man in Tockenburg

a video podcast

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

Filmduration: 20 minutes

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

a picture tour

Money defined in seven categories

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

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

of the MoneyMuseum

The Maltese Falcon

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

by Dagmar Lorenz

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

A successful concept for the investor

Aldous Huxley

Meistererzählungen

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

a pictoure tour

Effi Briest

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

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

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

a picture tour

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Physiognomic Fragments

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

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

Pride and Prejudice

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

© Andreas Platthaus

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

for the investor

Madame Bovary

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

An analysis on social justice

Old Goriot

The Great Gatsby

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

a picture tour

A short statement

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

Radetzkymarsch

Four books on measurement

ThurnierBuch, 1532