Stories

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

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

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

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Clarissa Harlowe

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Change of Climate as trigger

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

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

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

a picture tour

a coin tour

The Great Gatsby

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

Middlemarch

Holland in the 17th century

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

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

a coin tour

- Money in different Forms

Moby Dick

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

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

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

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

Pride and Prejudice

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

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

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

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.

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

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Consolation of Philosophy

a coin podcast

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

of Switzerland.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Max Havelaar

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- Islamic Money

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

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

financial markets and the virtuality of values

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Travel around the World in 80 Days

a picture tour

Reminiscences

The Forgers

The poor man in Tockenburg

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

a picture tour

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

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

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

a video podcast

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

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

Collected Fairy Tales

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Aldous Huxley

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

Self-portrait

Sonnets

Master Tales

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

by Peter Wolf

A short statement

15 stories

a coin tour

Sense and Sensibility

Nero‘s Propaganda

by Dagmar Lorenz

Published 1948

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Milan between 1412 and 1447

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

a picture tour

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

a coin-podcast

A report from Ruanda

for the investor

On Human Relations

Madame Bovary

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

a coin tour

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

a picture tour

Filmduration: 52 minutes

a coin tour

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

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

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Canterbury Tales

The Martian Chronicles

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

... since when has money been in existence?

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

Stiller

... and its consequences

a coin tour

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

a chart service for the investor

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

The sea wolf

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

A successful concept for the investor

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

Old Goriot

Filmduration: 20 minutes

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Germinal

a coin tour

of the MoneyMuseum

The city

A Christmas Carol

a view from history

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

by Robert Schneebeli

Il Milione

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

Oblomow

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

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

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Four books on measurement

a video podcast

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

Tewje, the Milkman

Great Expectations

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

- from the Vikings until today

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Effi Briest

a picture tour

Money defined in seven categories

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

of the MoneyMuseum

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

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

© Andreas Platthaus

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

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

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

ThurnierBuch, 1532

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

a picture tour

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Meistererzählungen

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Les Misérables

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Walden or Life in the Woods

two examples

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

Treasure Island

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

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

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

a picture tour

a picture tour

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

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

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

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

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

a coin tour

The Scarlet Letter

5th Century B.C. Athens

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Voltaire and Rousseau

Charles Baudelaire

publiziert 1716

... on justice and freedom of action

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

The golden Age / Dream Days

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Short video on how to attain it

Wuthering Heights

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Youth without God

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Vanity Fair

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

a coin tour

Carmen

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

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

of the MoneyMuseum

in Classical Antiquity

visually explained

Erewhon

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

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

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

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

by Herbert George Wells

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Brigitta and other tales

by Ursula Kampmann

a coin tour

1816: The year without a Summer

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

of the MoneyMuseum

in the money markets

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

a video podcast

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

a coin tour

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

Introduction Roman Republic

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

a video podcast

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

- Respectable and Trustworthy

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

The Beautiful and the Damned

- The Yen

I Ging

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

a coin tour

a coin tour

By Katrin Schär

a picture tour

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

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

By Günter Hoffmann

a pictoure tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Master Tales

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Animal Farm

The Idiot

Gotha numaria, 1730

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Jane Eyre

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Meistererzählungen

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

a coin tour

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

The Decameron

AudioGuide Roman Republic

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Collection MoneyMuseum

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Who wanted the crusades?

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

The first opportunity to handle money …

a podcast of the year in 1527

Bel-Ami

Filmduration: 21 minutes

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Satyricon

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

The Maltese Falcon

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

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

by Carol Schwyzer

An analysis on social justice

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Radetzkymarsch

Table talk

... and its Relation to Money

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Conversation Book

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

The medieval world order

a picture tour

by Harald Wessbecher

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

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

Filmduration: 39 minutes

a coin tour

Mrs Jenny Treibel

a chart service for the investor

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

Physiognomic Fragments

– the Birth of Tolerance

of the MoneyMuseum

eine Bildertour

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

New Atlas, 1710

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Ideal and Reality

a picture tour

Filmduration: 23 minutes

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

- the Basis for Everyday Money

a picture tour

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

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

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

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

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

Stopfkuchen.

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

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Robinson Crusoe

Fahrenheit 451

a picture tour

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

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

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

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

a picture tour

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

The Turn of the Screw

Der Steppenwolf

Don Quixote

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761