Stories

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

of the MoneyMuseum

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

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

Conversation Book

Table talk

a picture tour

Effi Briest

Clarissa Harlowe

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

in the money markets

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Sonnets

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

of the MoneyMuseum

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

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

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

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

a coin tour

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

Aldous Huxley

The Forgers

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Don Quixote

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

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

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a chart service for the investor

Moby Dick

- from the Vikings until today

The poor man in Tockenburg

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

Sense and Sensibility

A short statement

financial markets and the virtuality of values

a coin tour

Les Misérables

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Collection MoneyMuseum

Old Goriot

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

– the Birth of Tolerance

by Herbert George Wells

I Ging

Radetzkymarsch

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a coin-podcast

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmduration: 7 minutes

The Great Gatsby

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

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

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

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

Oblomow

Animal Farm

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

- Money in different Forms

Reminiscences

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

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

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

The Martian Chronicles

Walden or Life in the Woods

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

The Beautiful and the Damned

a picture tour

Holland in the 17th century

New Atlas, 1710

ThurnierBuch, 1532

by Dagmar Lorenz

Voltaire and Rousseau

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

The sea wolf

a video podcast

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

The medieval world order

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

for the investor

publiziert 1716

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

by Robert Schneebeli

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Travel around the World in 80 Days

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

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

An analysis on social justice

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

Wuthering Heights

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

visually explained

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

a picture tour

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

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

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

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

A Christmas Carol

Get an answer in 90 seconds

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

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

Who wanted the crusades?

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Gotha numaria, 1730

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

The Scarlet Letter

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

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

a picture tour

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

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

in Classical Antiquity

a picture tour

Satyricon

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

a coin tour

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a coin tour

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

Master Tales

a coin tour

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

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

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

Der Steppenwolf

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

a picture tour

Consolation of Philosophy

a view from history

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

On Human Relations

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

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

The Maltese Falcon

of Switzerland.

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

J. R. R. Tolkien

a coin tour

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Four books on measurement

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

- the Basis for Everyday Money

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Money defined in seven categories

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

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

a video podcast

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

a picture tour

The Turn of the Screw

Brigitta and other tales

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

Filmduration: 52 minutes

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

two examples

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Stopfkuchen.

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

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

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

a coin tour

Change of Climate as trigger

by Carol Schwyzer

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

by Ursula Kampmann

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

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

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

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

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

Carmen

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a pictoure tour

The first opportunity to handle money …

By Katrin Schär

The Decameron

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Germinal

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

of the MoneyMuseum

Filmduration: 29 minutes

a video podcast

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

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Il Milione

by Peter Wolf

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

a picture tour

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

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

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

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

Robinson Crusoe

Short video on how to attain it

a coin tour

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.

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

Great Expectations

a picture tour

The Idiot

a picture tour

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Meistererzählungen

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

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

Self-portrait

Charles Baudelaire

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

a coin tour

The golden Age / Dream Days

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

a coin tour

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

a picture tour

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

a coin tour

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Madame Bovary

Erewhon

1816: The year without a Summer

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

Max Havelaar

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Features of the Human Face on Coins

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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

A successful concept for the investor

A report from Ruanda

Canterbury Tales

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

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

a chart service for the investor

a coin podcast

By Günter Hoffmann

Master Tales

Mrs Jenny Treibel

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

© Andreas Platthaus

- Islamic Money

eine Bildertour

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Tewje, the Milkman

Vanity Fair

5th Century B.C. Athens

a picture tour

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

by Lukas M. Schneider

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

Jane Eyre

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Physiognomic Fragments

Fahrenheit 451

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

of the MoneyMuseum

Pride and Prejudice

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

... and its consequences

Youth without God

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

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Meistererzählungen

a coin tour

Treasure Island

Bel-Ami

... since when has money been in existence?

The city

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

... and its Relation to Money

15 stories

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Collected Fairy Tales

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

a coin tour

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

of the MoneyMuseum

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Ideal and Reality

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

a video podcast

a picture tour

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

- The Yen

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

a picture tour

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Published 1948

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

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.

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

... on justice and freedom of action

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

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

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

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

by Harald Wessbecher

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

Introduction Roman Republic

a coin tour

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

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

Middlemarch

Stiller

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

a picture tour

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

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.