Stories

a picture tour

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

a coin-podcast

- from the Vikings until today

Features of the Human Face on Coins

a coin tour

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

Master Tales

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Carmen

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

I Ging

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

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

15 stories

The Martian Chronicles

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

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

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

eine Bildertour

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

The Forgers

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

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

a chart service for the investor

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Bel-Ami

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

The Turn of the Screw

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Radetzkymarsch

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Brigitta and other tales

a coin tour

Germinal

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Moby Dick

by Marcus Junkelmann

... and its Relation to Money

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Youth without God

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

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

a coin tour

a picture tour

a coin tour

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"

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

beautiful High Relief Coinage

of the MoneyMuseum

Collection MoneyMuseum

A report from Ruanda

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

of the MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

Mrs Jenny Treibel

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

Satyricon

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

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

The sea wolf

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

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

a picture tour

J. R. R. Tolkien

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

Max Havelaar

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Il Milione

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

by Herbert George Wells

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Self-portrait

- Money in different Forms

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

by Peter Wolf

a picture tour

by Carol Schwyzer

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

Gotha numaria, 1730

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a picture tour

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Reminiscences

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

in Classical Antiquity

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

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

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

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

Introduction Roman Republic

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Clarissa Harlowe

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

The Great Gatsby

Get an answer in 90 seconds

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

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

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

Wuthering Heights

in the money markets

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

a picture tour

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Robinson Crusoe

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a video podcast

The Maltese Falcon

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

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

The medieval world order

a video podcast

a chart service for the investor

a picture tour

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Stiller

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

Tewje, the Milkman

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

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

5th Century B.C. Athens

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

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

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

Table talk

Stopfkuchen.

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

a video podcast

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a podcast of the year in 1527

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Short video on how to attain it

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

Pride and Prejudice

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

by Dagmar Lorenz

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Charles Baudelaire

a picture tour

a picture tour

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

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

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Filmduration: 7 minutes

A Christmas Carol

Holland in the 17th century

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Vanity Fair

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Canterbury Tales

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Great Expectations

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Consolation of Philosophy

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

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

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Milan between 1412 and 1447

By Günter Hoffmann

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Treasure Island

a coin tour

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

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

Filmduration: 52 minutes

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

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

© Andreas Platthaus

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

... and its consequences

Middlemarch

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

The city

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Published 1948

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

a coin tour

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

by Ursula Kampmann

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Der Steppenwolf

a picture tour

Old Goriot

Nero‘s Propaganda

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

a coin tour

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Filmduration: 23 minutes

A short statement

Change of Climate as trigger

a coin tour

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

a picture tour

Filmduration: 72 minutes

a coin tour

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

of the MoneyMuseum

The Beautiful and the Damned

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Master Tales

of the MoneyMuseum

Effi Briest

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

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

by Harald Wessbecher

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

ThurnierBuch, 1532

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

Sonnets

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

... on justice and freedom of action

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

for the investor

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

a picture tour

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

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

a coin podcast

Conversation Book

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

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

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

two examples

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Walden or Life in the Woods

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

By Katrin Schär

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

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

Ideal and Reality

Meistererzählungen

... since when has money been in existence?

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

Who wanted the crusades?

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

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

Money defined in seven categories

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Jane Eyre

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

a coin tour

Collected Fairy Tales

a video podcast

Don Quixote

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

On Human Relations

Sense and Sensibility

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

Voltaire and Rousseau

Filmduration: 29 minutes

1816: The year without a Summer

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

The first opportunity to handle money …

Filmduration: 34 minutes

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

Fahrenheit 451

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

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

Oblomow

of the MoneyMuseum

a view from history

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

a coin tour

Four books on measurement

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

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

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Filmduration: 20 minutes

The Idiot

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a coin tour

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

a coin tour

Meistererzählungen

a picture tour

Filmduration: 39 minutes

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Physiognomic Fragments

publiziert 1716

An analysis on social justice

Erewhon

Les Misérables

A successful concept for the investor

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

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

a picture tour

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Madame Bovary

The golden Age / Dream Days

by Robert Schneebeli

Videoduration: 15 minutes

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

The Decameron

by Lukas M. Schneider

a pictoure tour

of Switzerland.

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

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

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

Animal Farm

- The Yen

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

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

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

The poor man in Tockenburg

visually explained

The Scarlet Letter

a coin tour

- Islamic Money

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

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

New Atlas, 1710

2-minute video from the series "success stories"