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A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

By Katrin Schär

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Filmduration: 72 minutes

a video podcast

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Master Tales

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Wuthering Heights

Max Havelaar

Holland in the 17th century

Meistererzählungen

Published 1948

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

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

Change of Climate as trigger

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

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

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

The Martian Chronicles

Der Steppenwolf

Meistererzählungen

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

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

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

The Maltese Falcon

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

by Andreas Urs Sommer

by Ursula Kampmann

a picture tour

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

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Germinal

- the Basis for Everyday Money

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

... and its Relation to Money

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

by Carol Schwyzer

a coin-podcast

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Reminiscences

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Les Misérables

... since when has money been in existence?

Short video on how to attain it

a coin tour

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Sense and Sensibility

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

a chart service for the investor

a coin tour

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

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Charles Baudelaire

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

A report from Ruanda

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

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

a coin tour

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

a picture tour

visually explained

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.

- Islamic Money

The medieval world order

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

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

The sea wolf

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

by Peter Wolf

Old Goriot

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

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

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

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

beautiful High Relief Coinage

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

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

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

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

Who wanted the crusades?

a coin tour

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

Effi Briest

Table talk

Robinson Crusoe

A successful concept for the investor

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Filmduration: 39 minutes

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

a picture tour

of the MoneyMuseum

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

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

Satyricon

a view from history

Ideal and Reality

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

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

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

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Fahrenheit 451

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Animal Farm

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Herbert George Wells

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

An analysis on social justice

Il Milione

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

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

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

1816: The year without a Summer

Bel-Ami

Gotha numaria, 1730

Collected Fairy Tales

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

a video podcast

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

Money defined in seven categories

in the money markets

publiziert 1716

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Aldous Huxley

Walden or Life in the Woods

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

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

Youth without God

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

of Switzerland.

a picture tour

Physiognomic Fragments

by Dagmar Lorenz

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

two examples

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Moby Dick

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

On Human Relations

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

Thus spoke Zarathustra

The golden Age / Dream Days

by Lukas M. Schneider

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

eine Bildertour

a coin podcast

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

a pictoure tour

a picture tour

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Great Expectations

The Scarlet Letter

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

The Beautiful and the Damned

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

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

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

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

The Decameron

a picture tour

New Atlas, 1710

Pride and Prejudice

- from the Vikings until today

a coin tour

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

a coin tour

a picture tour

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

Clarissa Harlowe

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

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

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

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

Carmen

a chart service for the investor

a picture tour

a coin tour

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

Erewhon

The poor man in Tockenburg

Vanity Fair

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

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

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

a coin tour

Radetzkymarsch

a picture tour

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

a coin tour

15 stories

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

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

The Forgers

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

a picture tour

The Turn of the Screw

A short statement

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

Filmduration: 20 minutes

The first opportunity to handle money …

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

Collection MoneyMuseum

of the MoneyMuseum

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

of the MoneyMuseum

Filmduration: 21 minutes

a coin tour

The Great Gatsby

A Christmas Carol

Jane Eyre

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Oblomow

by Harald Wessbecher

Master Tales

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

a picture tour

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

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

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

Middlemarch

a coin tour

Voltaire and Rousseau

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Don Quixote

Consolation of Philosophy

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

- The Yen

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

by Robert Schneebeli

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

a video podcast

of the MoneyMuseum

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Filmduration: 23 minutes

© Andreas Platthaus

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Treasure Island

- Money in different Forms

By Günter Hoffmann

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

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

Sonnets

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

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

Tewje, the Milkman

Four books on measurement

The Idiot

I Ging

a coin tour

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

The city

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Nero‘s Propaganda

a coin tour

Filmduration: 29 minutes

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

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

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

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

Canterbury Tales

... on justice and freedom of action

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

Introduction Roman Republic

Madame Bovary

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

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

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

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a video podcast

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

Brigitta and other tales

a picture tour

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

for the investor

– the Birth of Tolerance

a picture tour

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

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

of the MoneyMuseum

Stiller

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Get an answer in 90 seconds

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Stopfkuchen.

Der Besuch der alten Dame

... and its consequences

J. R. R. Tolkien

in Classical Antiquity

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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

Self-portrait

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

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

Conversation Book