Digging in the archive

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

a picture tour

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

a view from history

in Classical Antiquity

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Filmduration: 72 minutes

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Published 1948

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

5th Century B.C. Athens

Aldous Huxley

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

AudioGuide Roman Republic

a coin-podcast

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Consolation of Philosophy

Change of Climate as trigger

Milan between 1412 and 1447

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

An analysis on social justice

The city

The sea wolf

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Il Milione

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Gotha numaria, 1730

15 stories

Meistererzählungen

a video podcast

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

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

a video podcast

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Introduction Roman Republic

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

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

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Meistererzählungen

a podcast of the year in 1527

publiziert 1716

Table talk

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

The golden Age / Dream Days

a coin podcast

Madame Bovary

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Who wanted the crusades?

The poor man in Tockenburg

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Max Havelaar

a video podcast

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

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

Oblomow

a video podcast

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

Four books on measurement

Youth without God

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

... and its consequences

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

1816: The year without a Summer

a picture tour

New Atlas, 1710

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

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

by Herbert George Wells

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

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Der Steppenwolf

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

two examples

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

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

Conversation Book

The medieval world order

Carmen

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

a pictoure tour

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

a picture tour

by Ursula Kampmann

... since when has money been in existence?

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

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France