Digging in the archive

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

On Human Relations

Walden or Life in the Woods

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

by Harald Wessbecher

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

A Christmas Carol

eine Bildertour

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

a picture tour

The Maltese Falcon

... and its Relation to Money

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Sonnets

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

The poor man in Tockenburg

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

a coin tour

15 stories

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Ideal and Reality

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

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

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

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

- Islamic Money

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

a coin tour

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

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

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

Holland in the 17th century

Bel-Ami

Gotha numaria, 1730

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

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

© Andreas Platthaus

The Martian Chronicles

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

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

visually explained

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

Oblomow

Vanity Fair

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Middlemarch

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

two examples

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Radetzkymarsch

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

a picture tour

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

Madame Bovary

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

The medieval world order

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

Canterbury Tales

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

a coin tour

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

Great Expectations

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

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

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

a coin tour

Filmduration: 21 minutes

a coin tour

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

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Il Milione

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

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

a coin tour

by Ursula Kampmann

The sea wolf

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Meistererzählungen

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

Master Tales

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Four books on measurement

a picture tour

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

a picture tour

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Der Steppenwolf

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

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

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

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

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

Jane Eyre

a chart service for the investor

financial markets and the virtuality of values

... since when has money been in existence?

5th Century B.C. Athens

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

of the MoneyMuseum

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

a pictoure tour

a coin-podcast

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

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

An analysis on social justice

Change of Climate as trigger

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

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

a picture tour

a view from history

Table talk

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Introduction Roman Republic

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

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

- Money in different Forms

The Forgers

a video podcast

Filmduration: 34 minutes

The Scarlet Letter

Carmen

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Les Misérables

A short statement

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

a coin podcast

by Dagmar Lorenz

The Beautiful and the Damned

a picture tour

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

A report from Ruanda

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

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

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

Old Goriot

Milan between 1412 and 1447

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

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

Charles Baudelaire

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

a coin tour

Treasure Island

a picture tour

a coin tour

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

a picture tour

Max Havelaar

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

a picture tour

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

a coin tour

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

of Switzerland.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Moby Dick

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

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Self-portrait

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

by Peter Wolf

The Idiot

Consolation of Philosophy

a video podcast

a coin tour

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

publiziert 1716

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Filmduration: 7 minutes

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

... and its consequences

Erewhon

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Filmduration: 29 minutes

ThurnierBuch, 1532

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

in Classical Antiquity

for the investor

Sense and Sensibility

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

Pride and Prejudice

a coin tour

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

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

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

a chart service for the investor

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

Filmduration: 52 minutes

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Short video on how to attain it

of the MoneyMuseum

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

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

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

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

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

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

The Turn of the Screw

Thus spoke Zarathustra

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

- The Yen

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Collected Fairy Tales

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

The golden Age / Dream Days

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Robinson Crusoe

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Who wanted the crusades?

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

The Great Gatsby

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Tewje, the Milkman

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

The first opportunity to handle money …

I Ging

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

Money defined in seven categories

a video podcast

Voltaire and Rousseau

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

Don Quixote

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Brigitta and other tales

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

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Conversation Book

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Filmduration: 20 minutes

a picture tour

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a coin tour

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

of the MoneyMuseum

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

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Animal Farm

in the money markets

a picture tour

J. R. R. Tolkien

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Youth without God

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

by Robert Schneebeli

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

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

a coin tour

by Lukas M. Schneider

By Günter Hoffmann

a coin tour

New Atlas, 1710

a picture tour

Nero‘s Propaganda

a picture tour

by Carol Schwyzer

A successful concept for the investor

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

Meistererzählungen

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

The city

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Wuthering Heights

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

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Clarissa Harlowe

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

... on justice and freedom of action

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

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Satyricon

a picture tour

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

by Herbert George Wells

Effi Briest

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Published 1948

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Reminiscences

Der Besuch der alten Dame

1816: The year without a Summer

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

The Decameron

Physiognomic Fragments

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

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Collection MoneyMuseum

Aldous Huxley

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

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

Fahrenheit 451

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Stiller

a coin tour

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

Stopfkuchen.

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

- from the Vikings until today

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

By Katrin Schär

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

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Master Tales

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a video podcast

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Germinal

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

a picture tour

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