Digging in the archive

a coin tour

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Der Besuch der alten Dame

a video podcast

a coin tour

Reminiscences

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Les Misérables

Milan between 1412 and 1447

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

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

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

I Ging

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"

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Features of the Human Face on Coins

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Radetzkymarsch

Self-portrait

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

of the MoneyMuseum

Filmduration: 34 minutes

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

a picture tour

– the Birth of Tolerance

Youth without God

The Great Gatsby

The golden Age / Dream Days

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

- Money in different Forms

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

a video podcast

a chart service for the investor

Vanity Fair

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Thus spoke Zarathustra

15 stories

a coin tour

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

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Collection MoneyMuseum

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

... and its Relation to Money

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

Great Expectations

eine Bildertour

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

by Harald Wessbecher

Filmduration: 21 minutes

a picture tour

of the MoneyMuseum

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

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

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

5th Century B.C. Athens

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Wuthering Heights

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

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

- Islamic Money

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Carmen

a picture tour

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Master Tales

a coin tour

© Andreas Platthaus

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

in Classical Antiquity

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Consolation of Philosophy

Change of Climate as trigger

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Old Goriot

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Travel around the World in 80 Days

of the MoneyMuseum

... on justice and freedom of action

Gotha numaria, 1730

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Master Tales

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

The Forgers

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

a picture tour

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

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

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

a video podcast

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

a pictoure tour

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

visually explained

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

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

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

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

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

a picture tour

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

a picture tour

Sense and Sensibility

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

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

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

a coin tour

The poor man in Tockenburg

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

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

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

a chart service for the investor

The Beautiful and the Damned

a picture tour

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

Fahrenheit 451

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

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

Stopfkuchen.

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

On Human Relations

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

The Martian Chronicles

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Bel-Ami

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

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

Jane Eyre

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

a coin tour

The Idiot

... and its consequences

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Introduction Roman Republic

Brigitta and other tales

a picture tour

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Clarissa Harlowe

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

A report from Ruanda

a coin tour

a coin tour

Published 1948

The city

a picture tour

Tewje, the Milkman

Four books on measurement

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

by Marcus Junkelmann

Collected Fairy Tales

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

of Switzerland.

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Erewhon

a coin tour

The first opportunity to handle money …

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Meistererzählungen

Charles Baudelaire

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

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

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

Walden or Life in the Woods

New Atlas, 1710

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Holland in the 17th century

Meistererzählungen

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

by Carol Schwyzer

a coin tour

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

- The Yen

by Herbert George Wells

Stiller

by Robert Schneebeli

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Turn of the Screw

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

by Ursula Kampmann

Max Havelaar

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

1816: The year without a Summer

Germinal

Filmduration: 29 minutes

The medieval world order

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Der Steppenwolf

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

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

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

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

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

The sea wolf

Voltaire and Rousseau

Robinson Crusoe

a video podcast

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

for the investor

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Filmduration: 23 minutes

a coin-podcast

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Pride and Prejudice

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

by Andreas Urs Sommer

a picture tour

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

Money defined in seven categories

a picture tour

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

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

Conversation Book

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

A successful concept for the investor

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

Satyricon

Treasure Island

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

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

An analysis on social justice

Il Milione

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

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

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

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

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

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

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

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

in the money markets

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a picture tour

Middlemarch

two examples

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

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

a coin tour

Oblomow

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Effi Briest

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

Sonnets

Animal Farm

a podcast of the year in 1527

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Madame Bovary

by Peter Wolf

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

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

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

a coin tour

Get an answer in 90 seconds

The Maltese Falcon

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

The Decameron

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

Aldous Huxley

A short statement

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

... since when has money been in existence?

- the Basis for Everyday Money

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

Who wanted the crusades?

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

a picture tour

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

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

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

By Günter Hoffmann

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

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Table talk

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

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

a coin tour

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

beautiful High Relief Coinage

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

AudioGuide Roman Republic

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

Mrs Jenny Treibel

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

The Scarlet Letter

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

of the MoneyMuseum

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Moby Dick

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

a picture tour

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

a coin podcast

a coin tour

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Ideal and Reality

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

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

By Katrin Schär

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Canterbury Tales

Short video on how to attain it

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

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

publiziert 1716

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Physiognomic Fragments

- from the Vikings until today

Don Quixote

a view from history

A Christmas Carol