Digging in the archive

Sonnets

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

by Robert Schneebeli

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".

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

The Great Gatsby

Robinson Crusoe

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

Stopfkuchen.

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

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

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Filmduration: 29 minutes

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

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

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

Physiognomic Fragments

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

Reminiscences

On Human Relations

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

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

Sense and Sensibility

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

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

Middlemarch

by Herbert George Wells

Jane Eyre

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

The Martian Chronicles

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

The Beautiful and the Damned

of the MoneyMuseum

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

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

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

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

a coin tour

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

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

... since when has money been in existence?

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Self-portrait

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

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

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

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

Stiller

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.

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Bel-Ami

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Conversation Book

- Money in different Forms

Max Havelaar

by Ursula Kampmann

New Atlas, 1710

of the MoneyMuseum

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

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

a video podcast

By Katrin Schär

A short statement

Great Expectations

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

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

- from the Vikings until today

Money defined in seven categories

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- The Yen

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

a picture tour

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

a coin tour

Milan between 1412 and 1447

a coin-podcast

a podcast of the year in 1527

Brigitta and other tales

Four books on measurement

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

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

in Classical Antiquity

Animal Farm

a chart service for the investor

financial markets and the virtuality of values

a video podcast

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

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

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

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

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

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

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

Meistererzählungen

Aldous Huxley

Les Misérables

a coin tour

Walden or Life in the Woods

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Published 1948

- Islamic Money

beautiful High Relief Coinage

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

A report from Ruanda

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

Madame Bovary

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Collected Fairy Tales

The Forgers

Consolation of Philosophy

a coin tour

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

By Günter Hoffmann

Pride and Prejudice

Il Milione

Voltaire and Rousseau

Vanity Fair

a picture tour

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

a coin tour

The city

An analysis on social justice

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

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

a video podcast

Oblomow

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

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

Master Tales

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

by Harald Wessbecher

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

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

eine Bildertour

The Maltese Falcon

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

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

of the MoneyMuseum

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

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

a picture tour

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

a picture tour

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

a picture tour

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)

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

a coin tour

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Ideal and Reality

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

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

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

... on justice and freedom of action

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Old Goriot

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

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

Canterbury Tales

Features of the Human Face on Coins

a picture tour

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

publiziert 1716

Youth without God

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

a picture tour

for the investor

Moby Dick

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Thus spoke Zarathustra

15 stories

a coin tour

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

a coin tour

Filmduration: 7 minutes

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

in the money markets

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Collection MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

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

Holland in the 17th century

The first opportunity to handle money …

a picture tour

Who wanted the crusades?

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

a video podcast

of the MoneyMuseum

Carmen

Effi Briest

by Peter Wolf

a coin tour

a picture tour

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

Master Tales

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

a coin tour

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

The Turn of the Screw

Don Quixote

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

a coin tour

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

a coin tour

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

a coin podcast

a picture tour

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

Filmduration: 52 minutes

AudioGuide Roman Republic

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

ThurnierBuch, 1532

a picture tour

... and its Relation to Money

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a picture tour

two examples

Filmduration: 34 minutes

by Carol Schwyzer

Satyricon

J. R. R. Tolkien

visually explained

a pictoure tour

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Filmduration: 20 minutes

a coin tour

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

... and its consequences

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

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

a chart service for the investor

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

1816: The year without a Summer

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

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Radetzkymarsch

The sea wolf

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

of the MoneyMuseum

The poor man in Tockenburg

Short video on how to attain it

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

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

a picture tour

a view from history

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Germinal

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

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

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

The Decameron

Gotha numaria, 1730

The Idiot

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

– the Birth of Tolerance

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Erewhon

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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"

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

a picture tour

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Charles Baudelaire

Wuthering Heights

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Clarissa Harlowe

Nero‘s Propaganda

A successful concept for the investor

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

Der Steppenwolf

of Switzerland.

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Table talk

© Andreas Platthaus

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

A Christmas Carol

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Change of Climate as trigger

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

The medieval world order

a coin tour

I Ging

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Fahrenheit 451

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

Introduction Roman Republic

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

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Treasure Island

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

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

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

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Travel around the World in 80 Days

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Tewje, the Milkman

The golden Age / Dream Days

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

The Scarlet Letter

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

by Marcus Junkelmann

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

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

Meistererzählungen

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

- Respectable and Trustworthy

a picture tour

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

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

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014