Digging in the archive

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

a video podcast

Stiller

of the MoneyMuseum

Tewje, the Milkman

ThurnierBuch, 1532

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Money defined in seven categories

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

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

An analysis on social justice

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Change of Climate as trigger

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Old Goriot

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Introduction Roman Republic

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Charles Baudelaire

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

of the MoneyMuseum

... on justice and freedom of action

Collected Fairy Tales

Holland in the 17th century

a picture tour

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

of Switzerland.

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Features of the Human Face on Coins

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

a picture tour

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

The Turn of the Screw

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

5th Century B.C. Athens

a coin tour

The Forgers

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Stopfkuchen.

The poor man in Tockenburg

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

I Ging

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

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

By Günter Hoffmann

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Master Tales

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

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

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

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

by Ursula Kampmann

A Christmas Carol

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

by Robert Schneebeli

Table talk

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Animal Farm

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Vanity Fair

1816: The year without a Summer

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

a coin tour

Canterbury Tales

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

- Islamic Money

by Harald Wessbecher

The medieval world order

Thus spoke Zarathustra

a picture tour

a picture tour

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

a coin podcast

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

... and its Relation to Money

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

a coin tour

of the MoneyMuseum

Videoduration: 15 minutes

a coin tour

Brigitta and other tales

a coin tour

publiziert 1716

Il Milione

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Walden or Life in the Woods

Satyricon

a chart service for the investor

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Short video on how to attain it

Erewhon

in the money markets

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

a coin-podcast

a coin tour

by Lukas M. Schneider

- The Yen

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

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

Sonnets

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

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

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

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

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Der Steppenwolf

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

A short statement

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

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

Meistererzählungen

a video podcast

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Clarissa Harlowe

Get an answer in 90 seconds

a picture tour

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Self-portrait

a picture tour

a picture tour

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

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

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Wuthering Heights

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

Jane Eyre

Pride and Prejudice

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

Middlemarch

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

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

Master Tales

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Milan between 1412 and 1447

... since when has money been in existence?

On Human Relations

by Peter Wolf

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

a coin tour

Physiognomic Fragments

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.

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

The city

a picture tour

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

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

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

Youth without God

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

financial markets and the virtuality of values

by Carol Schwyzer

a picture tour

Published 1948

The Martian Chronicles

a picture tour

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

a coin tour

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

a coin tour

a picture tour

The Beautiful and the Damned

eine Bildertour

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

a coin tour

Oblomow

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Robinson Crusoe

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Aldous Huxley

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

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

Treasure Island

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

- Money in different Forms

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

by Marcus Junkelmann

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Voltaire and Rousseau

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

– the Birth of Tolerance

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

a coin tour

a video podcast

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

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

Max Havelaar

in Classical Antiquity

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

A successful concept for the investor

a coin tour

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

Collection MoneyMuseum

15 stories

Filmduration: 7 minutes

The sea wolf

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

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

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

beautiful High Relief Coinage

- from the Vikings until today

Gotha numaria, 1730

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

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

a picture tour

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

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

Fahrenheit 451

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

The Great Gatsby

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Four books on measurement

Conversation Book

a chart service for the investor

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

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

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

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

two examples

Ideal and Reality

Sense and Sensibility

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Moby Dick

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

a picture tour

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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

The Scarlet Letter

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Filmduration: 32 minutes

for the investor

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a podcast of the year in 1527

by Herbert George Wells

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

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

by Andreas Urs Sommer

a pictoure tour

Madame Bovary

Bel-Ami

The first opportunity to handle money …

Who wanted the crusades?

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

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

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

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

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

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

a coin tour

... and its consequences

AudioGuide Roman Republic

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

New Atlas, 1710

Radetzkymarsch

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

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

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

AudioGuide Roman Republic

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Les Misérables

a view from history

By Katrin Schär

© Andreas Platthaus

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

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

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

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Effi Briest

a picture tour

The Maltese Falcon

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Reminiscences

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

A report from Ruanda

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Carmen

a coin tour

visually explained

The Decameron

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

a picture tour

The Idiot

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

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Don Quixote

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

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

Meistererzählungen

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Consolation of Philosophy

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

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Great Expectations

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Germinal

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

a video podcast