Digging in the archive

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

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

The first opportunity to handle money …

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

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

by Peter Wolf

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

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

A successful concept for the investor

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

a picture tour

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

publiziert 1716

Youth without God

Moby Dick

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

a chart service for the investor

Change of Climate as trigger

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

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

- Money in different Forms

a coin tour

Radetzkymarsch

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

Aldous Huxley

Der Steppenwolf

© Andreas Platthaus

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

Clarissa Harlowe

– the Birth of Tolerance

Stiller

Four books on measurement

The Maltese Falcon

a coin tour

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Meistererzählungen

two examples

- from the Vikings until today

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

a coin tour

Reminiscences

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

Don Quixote

by Robert Schneebeli

ThurnierBuch, 1532

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Charles Baudelaire

Old Goriot

Canterbury Tales

The city

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

beautiful High Relief Coinage

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

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

for the investor

Voltaire and Rousseau

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

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Middlemarch

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Features of the Human Face on Coins

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

by Herbert George Wells

Madame Bovary

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

I Ging

visually explained

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

The Great Gatsby

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

a coin tour

a pictoure tour

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

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Videoduration: 15 minutes

of the MoneyMuseum

Pride and Prejudice

... on justice and freedom of action

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Vanity Fair

a picture tour

Great Expectations

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

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

a picture tour

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Stopfkuchen.

A Christmas Carol

Collected Fairy Tales

- The Yen

The golden Age / Dream Days

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a coin tour

Collection MoneyMuseum

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Il Milione

Satyricon

Gotha numaria, 1730

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

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

a picture tour

On Human Relations

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

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

A short statement

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Les Misérables

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

a video podcast

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

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

Robinson Crusoe

Effi Briest

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

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

An analysis on social justice

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

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

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

a video podcast

Fahrenheit 451

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

of the MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

Conversation Book

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Bel-Ami

Filmduration: 29 minutes

A report from Ruanda

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

of the MoneyMuseum

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

a picture tour

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

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

a picture tour

By Katrin Schär

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

The Decameron

Wuthering Heights

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Jane Eyre

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

by Ursula Kampmann

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Master Tales

a picture tour

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Animal Farm

a picture tour

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

Brigitta and other tales

a chart service for the investor

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Filmduration: 7 minutes

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

- the Basis for Everyday Money

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

eine Bildertour

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

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

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

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

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Mrs Jenny Treibel

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

a coin tour

- Islamic Money

a picture tour

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

The medieval world order

a picture tour

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

15 stories

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

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

The Idiot

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Filmduration: 23 minutes

a video podcast

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

The Beautiful and the Damned

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

by Harald Wessbecher

of the MoneyMuseum

Physiognomic Fragments

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

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

Sonnets

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

a coin podcast

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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

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

Meistererzählungen

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

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

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

Sense and Sensibility

By Günter Hoffmann

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

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

Self-portrait

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

The Scarlet Letter

by Lukas M. Schneider

Consolation of Philosophy

a picture tour

a coin tour

Master Tales

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

... since when has money been in existence?

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

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

a coin tour

Treasure Island

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

Holland in the 17th century

a video podcast

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

in the money markets

a coin-podcast

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

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

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

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

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

Ideal and Reality

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

The Turn of the Screw

a picture tour

... and its Relation to Money

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

of Switzerland.

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Introduction Roman Republic

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

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

Oblomow

The Martian Chronicles

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Germinal

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

by Andreas Urs Sommer

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

of the MoneyMuseum

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

a coin tour

Short video on how to attain it

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The sea wolf

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

by Marcus Junkelmann

Walden or Life in the Woods

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

The poor man in Tockenburg

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

a coin tour

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

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

Published 1948

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

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

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

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

... and its consequences

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

The Forgers

a coin tour

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

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

a coin tour

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

Max Havelaar

Erewhon

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Tewje, the Milkman

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Nero‘s Propaganda

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a picture tour

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Table talk

by Carol Schwyzer

Carmen

a view from history

in Classical Antiquity

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

a picture tour

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

1816: The year without a Summer

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

J. R. R. Tolkien

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Who wanted the crusades?

Money defined in seven categories

a coin tour

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

a coin tour

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

Filmduration: 34 minutes

New Atlas, 1710