Stories

Introduction Roman Republic

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

a picture tour

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

a picture tour

Great Expectations

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

a coin tour

a coin tour

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

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

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

Money defined in seven categories

Clarissa Harlowe

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

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

Middlemarch

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

On Human Relations

a picture tour

a video podcast

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

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

The Turn of the Screw

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Sonnets

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

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

The Great Gatsby

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

The sea wolf

a view from history

by Carol Schwyzer

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

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

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Short video on how to attain it

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

Gotha numaria, 1730

a podcast of the year in 1527

The first opportunity to handle money …

Radetzkymarsch

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Jane Eyre

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

a picture tour

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Master Tales

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Treasure Island

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

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

A Christmas Carol

Max Havelaar

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

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

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

- from the Vikings until today

a coin tour

Videoduration: 15 minutes

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

- Islamic Money

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

1816: The year without a Summer

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

Carmen

a coin tour

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

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

Four books on measurement

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

Madame Bovary

by Lukas M. Schneider

a picture tour

a coin podcast

Erewhon

Master Tales

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

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

The poor man in Tockenburg

beautiful High Relief Coinage

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Walden or Life in the Woods

a coin tour

Robinson Crusoe

Milan between 1412 and 1447

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

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

a coin tour

Il Milione

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

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

... on justice and freedom of action

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

AudioGuide Roman Republic

a coin tour

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

a coin tour

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

a chart service for the investor

of the MoneyMuseum

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

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

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

by Harald Wessbecher

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

financial markets and the virtuality of values

... and its Relation to Money

The Maltese Falcon

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

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

Who wanted the crusades?

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Brigitta and other tales

Voltaire and Rousseau

a coin tour

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Meistererzählungen

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Published 1948

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

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

in Classical Antiquity

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a video podcast

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

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

Consolation of Philosophy

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

- The Yen

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

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Animal Farm

a picture tour

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Ideal and Reality

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

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

by Peter Wolf

Vanity Fair

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

By Günter Hoffmann

Satyricon

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

a pictoure tour

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

- Respectable and Trustworthy

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

a picture tour

Charles Baudelaire

a coin-podcast

a picture tour

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

a chart service for the investor

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Filmduration: 20 minutes

a picture tour

An analysis on social justice

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Nero‘s Propaganda

Stopfkuchen.

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

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

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Bel-Ami

a video podcast

Wuthering Heights

Aldous Huxley

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Moby Dick

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

Germinal

by Robert Schneebeli

by Ursula Kampmann

Collection MoneyMuseum

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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

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

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

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

of the MoneyMuseum

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Thus spoke Zarathustra

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

... since when has money been in existence?

a coin tour

a coin tour

of the MoneyMuseum

Sense and Sensibility

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Self-portrait

Table talk

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Canterbury Tales

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

By Katrin Schär

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Old Goriot

a coin tour

New Atlas, 1710

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a coin tour

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

Change of Climate as trigger

The Beautiful and the Damned

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

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

eine Bildertour

The Forgers

The Martian Chronicles

a picture tour

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Les Misérables

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

The Scarlet Letter

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

A report from Ruanda

publiziert 1716

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

a picture tour

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Features of the Human Face on Coins

in the money markets

Filmduration: 39 minutes

of the MoneyMuseum

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

I Ging

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

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

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

The city

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

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

The medieval world order

- Money in different Forms

Holland in the 17th century

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

for the investor

© Andreas Platthaus

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

two examples

by Herbert George Wells

by Dagmar Lorenz

Der Steppenwolf

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

... and its consequences

Fahrenheit 451

A short statement

visually explained

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

Meistererzählungen

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Decameron

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Filmduration: 52 minutes

a picture tour

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Physiognomic Fragments

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

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

Collected Fairy Tales

Oblomow

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

The Idiot

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Pride and Prejudice

Der Besuch der alten Dame

a picture tour

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

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

Tewje, the Milkman

a picture tour

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

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

Conversation Book

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

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

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

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

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Effi Briest

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

Youth without God

a coin tour

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

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

a video podcast

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

of Switzerland.

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Stiller

15 stories

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

A successful concept for the investor

Don Quixote

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

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

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

Reminiscences