Stories

Mrs Jenny Treibel

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

Reminiscences

The Great Gatsby

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

- Money in different Forms

a picture tour

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

a view from history

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

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

Bel-Ami

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Short video on how to attain it

Germinal

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

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

Stiller

Sense and Sensibility

- Islamic Money

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Holland in the 17th century

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

A successful concept for the investor

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

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

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

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

by Andreas Urs Sommer

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

An analysis on social justice

- The Yen

Filmduration: 29 minutes

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

a chart service for the investor

a coin tour

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

of Switzerland.

Table talk

The Scarlet Letter

Meistererzählungen

Il Milione

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

by Peter Wolf

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

Madame Bovary

a podcast of the year in 1527

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

a picture tour

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

Money defined in seven categories

Introduction Roman Republic

Who wanted the crusades?

Collected Fairy Tales

A short statement

Walden or Life in the Woods

Erewhon

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

a coin tour

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

The Decameron

A Christmas Carol

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Stopfkuchen.

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

Tewje, the Milkman

by Robert Schneebeli

Travel around the World in 80 Days

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

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a video podcast

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

in Classical Antiquity

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Thus spoke Zarathustra

a coin podcast

a picture tour

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

a coin tour

a video podcast

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Sonnets

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

Self-portrait

Master Tales

Features of the Human Face on Coins

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The poor man in Tockenburg

a picture tour

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

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

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

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

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

The medieval world order

Fahrenheit 451

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

by Dagmar Lorenz

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

of the MoneyMuseum

– the Birth of Tolerance

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

a coin tour

Brigitta and other tales

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

Filmduration: 52 minutes

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

... on justice and freedom of action

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

The Martian Chronicles

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Charles Baudelaire

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Wuthering Heights

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

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

a picture tour

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Filmduration: 7 minutes

... and its Relation to Money

a video podcast

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

... and its consequences

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

AudioGuide Roman Republic

A report from Ruanda

© Andreas Platthaus

By Günter Hoffmann

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

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

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

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Radetzkymarsch

of the MoneyMuseum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The sea wolf

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

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

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

The Idiot

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

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

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

of the MoneyMuseum

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

New Atlas, 1710

Middlemarch

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

15 stories

two examples

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

Animal Farm

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

a picture tour

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

publiziert 1716

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Jane Eyre

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

eine Bildertour

Carmen

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

The Turn of the Screw

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Pride and Prejudice

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

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

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

by Herbert George Wells

a coin tour

Vanity Fair

for the investor

Oblomow

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Four books on measurement

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Old Goriot

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

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a coin tour

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

Voltaire and Rousseau

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

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

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Get an answer in 90 seconds

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Nero‘s Propaganda

by Harald Wessbecher

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Treasure Island

a picture tour

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

a picture tour

of the MoneyMuseum

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

by Lukas M. Schneider

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

- Respectable and Trustworthy

a coin tour

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Consolation of Philosophy

Don Quixote

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

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

Ideal and Reality

Robinson Crusoe

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

a coin tour

Master Tales

Aldous Huxley

The golden Age / Dream Days

Les Misérables

Effi Briest

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

... since when has money been in existence?

a pictoure tour

The Forgers

a picture tour

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

a coin tour

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

by Carol Schwyzer

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

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

a picture tour

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

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

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

a picture tour

Physiognomic Fragments

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Youth without God

The Beautiful and the Damned

Filmduration: 39 minutes

by Marcus Junkelmann

a picture tour

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Clarissa Harlowe

On Human Relations

of the MoneyMuseum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Satyricon

The first opportunity to handle money …

Gotha numaria, 1730

a picture tour

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

Canterbury Tales

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

Published 1948

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

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

1816: The year without a Summer

a coin tour

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

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

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

Great Expectations

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

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

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Collection MoneyMuseum

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

a picture tour

Conversation Book

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

- the Basis for Everyday Money

a chart service for the investor

a coin tour

visually explained

I Ging

Max Havelaar

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a video podcast

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Meistererzählungen

in the money markets

The city

a coin tour

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

Moby Dick

The Maltese Falcon

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

By Katrin Schär

a picture tour

5th Century B.C. Athens

a coin-podcast

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

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

ThurnierBuch, 1532

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Filmduration: 23 minutes

a coin tour

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

Videoduration: 15 minutes

by Ursula Kampmann

Change of Climate as trigger

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

J. R. R. Tolkien

a coin tour

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

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

Der Steppenwolf

- from the Vikings until today

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

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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