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Stiller

by Peter Wolf

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

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

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

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

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

Master Tales

a coin tour

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

a picture tour

a coin tour

– the Birth of Tolerance

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

a coin-podcast

a picture tour

Il Milione

Filmduration: 20 minutes

- Respectable and Trustworthy

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

of Switzerland.

The Decameron

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

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

An analysis on social justice

Consolation of Philosophy

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Vanity Fair

The Turn of the Screw

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

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

by Robert Schneebeli

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

- from the Vikings until today

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

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

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

- Money in different Forms

a video podcast

5th Century B.C. Athens

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

a picture tour

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

visually explained

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Milan between 1412 and 1447

a coin tour

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Animal Farm

by Lukas M. Schneider

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Sonnets

a coin tour

Pride and Prejudice

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Moby Dick

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

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

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Middlemarch

Clarissa Harlowe

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

eine Bildertour

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

Jane Eyre

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Travel around the World in 80 Days

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Collection MoneyMuseum

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

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

15 stories

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

Aldous Huxley

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

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

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Features of the Human Face on Coins

of the MoneyMuseum

Collected Fairy Tales

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

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

for the investor

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

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

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

Radetzkymarsch

a video podcast

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

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

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

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

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

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

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

The city

By Günter Hoffmann

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

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Nero‘s Propaganda

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

- Islamic Money

a view from history

Meistererzählungen

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

a coin tour

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Bel-Ami

Tewje, the Milkman

Youth without God

Sense and Sensibility

a pictoure tour

- The Yen

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

The first opportunity to handle money …

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Gotha numaria, 1730

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Fahrenheit 451

Carmen

Physiognomic Fragments

a picture tour

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The golden Age / Dream Days

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

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

a coin tour

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

a picture tour

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

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

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

A Christmas Carol

a coin tour

1816: The year without a Summer

Self-portrait

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

by Dagmar Lorenz

beautiful High Relief Coinage

The Idiot

a podcast of the year in 1527

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

The Beautiful and the Damned

by Harald Wessbecher

... since when has money been in existence?

Published 1948

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

A report from Ruanda

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Get an answer in 90 seconds

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

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

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

The poor man in Tockenburg

of the MoneyMuseum

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

a chart service for the investor

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

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.

a coin tour

a picture tour

Satyricon

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

a coin tour

Erewhon

Canterbury Tales

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

... and its Relation to Money

a picture tour

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Oblomow

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

Change of Climate as trigger

Filmduration: 21 minutes

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

of the MoneyMuseum

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Great Expectations

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Max Havelaar

Charles Baudelaire

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

by Carol Schwyzer

Walden or Life in the Woods

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Money defined in seven categories

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

a video podcast

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

AudioGuide Roman Republic

a coin tour

Der Steppenwolf

Filmduration: 52 minutes

by Ursula Kampmann

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

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

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

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

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

Brigitta and other tales

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

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

two examples

The Great Gatsby

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

a picture tour

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

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Short video on how to attain it

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

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Reminiscences

a video podcast

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

By Katrin Schär

a coin tour

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

Introduction Roman Republic

by Andreas Urs Sommer

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Wuthering Heights

J. R. R. Tolkien

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Ideal and Reality

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a picture tour

The Martian Chronicles

Meistererzählungen

Les Misérables

Conversation Book

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

a picture tour

Voltaire and Rousseau

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

a coin podcast

Table talk

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

a picture tour

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

The Scarlet Letter

Holland in the 17th century

Madame Bovary

Four books on measurement

... and its consequences

Who wanted the crusades?

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

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

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

publiziert 1716

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Master Tales

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

The Forgers

a picture tour

I Ging

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

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

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

Old Goriot

Filmduration: 29 minutes

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

Robinson Crusoe

a chart service for the investor

Stopfkuchen.

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

a picture tour

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

Effi Briest

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

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

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

The sea wolf

a coin tour

On Human Relations

in the money markets

A short statement

The medieval world order

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

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

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

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

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

by Herbert George Wells

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

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

A successful concept for the investor

Germinal

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

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

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

... on justice and freedom of action

a coin tour

in Classical Antiquity

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Don Quixote

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

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

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

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

Treasure Island

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

a picture tour

Filmduration: 32 minutes

New Atlas, 1710

The Maltese Falcon

© Andreas Platthaus

ThurnierBuch, 1532

of the MoneyMuseum

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771