Digging in the archive

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

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

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Stopfkuchen.

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

a picture tour

- The Yen

Vanity Fair

Carmen

of the MoneyMuseum

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

a picture tour

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

by Harald Wessbecher

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

a coin tour

Old Goriot

Meistererzählungen

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Wuthering Heights

Germinal

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

Effi Briest

a coin tour

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

A report from Ruanda

AudioGuide Roman Republic

for the investor

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Animal Farm

By Katrin Schär

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

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

A Christmas Carol

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

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

a coin tour

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Meistererzählungen

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

a coin tour

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

On Human Relations

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

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

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

a picture tour

Aldous Huxley

... on justice and freedom of action

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

of Switzerland.

a coin tour

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

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

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

I Ging

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

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

ThurnierBuch, 1532

in the money markets

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

A successful concept for the investor

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

a picture tour

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

The Turn of the Screw

© Andreas Platthaus

Holland in the 17th century

a coin podcast

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

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

- Islamic Money

Max Havelaar

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

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

The poor man in Tockenburg

Master Tales

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

a coin tour

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

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

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

a coin tour

Great Expectations

Don Quixote

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Get an answer in 90 seconds

The Forgers

Pride and Prejudice

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

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

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

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

Physiognomic Fragments

Self-portrait

Sense and Sensibility

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

The Beautiful and the Damned

- Money in different Forms

Jane Eyre

Consolation of Philosophy

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

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

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

Conversation Book

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

a picture tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Change of Climate as trigger

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

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

Master Tales

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

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

Who wanted the crusades?

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

The Great Gatsby

by Andreas Urs Sommer

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

by Herbert George Wells

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

publiziert 1716

Filmduration: 72 minutes

in Classical Antiquity

of the MoneyMuseum

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

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

An analysis on social justice

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

Robinson Crusoe

a coin-podcast

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

J. R. R. Tolkien

a coin tour

Filmduration: 32 minutes

a picture tour

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

Collection MoneyMuseum

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

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

A short statement

Stiller

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

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

Four books on measurement

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

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

a picture tour

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

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

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Table talk

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

by Ursula Kampmann

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Charles Baudelaire

The golden Age / Dream Days

a coin tour

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Reminiscences

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

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

Il Milione

Les Misérables

by Lukas M. Schneider

Ideal and Reality

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

a coin tour

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Erewhon

Money defined in seven categories

Published 1948

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

a video podcast

- the Basis for Everyday Money

a picture tour

The Decameron

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

Der Steppenwolf

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

by Robert Schneebeli

15 stories

Filmduration: 7 minutes

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

a coin tour

of the MoneyMuseum

The Martian Chronicles

Canterbury Tales

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

by Carol Schwyzer

1816: The year without a Summer

Introduction Roman Republic

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

Brigitta and other tales

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Madame Bovary

Bel-Ami

Tewje, the Milkman

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

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

a picture tour

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

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

a chart service for the investor

... since when has money been in existence?

a video podcast

Clarissa Harlowe

a picture tour

a picture tour

The city

a view from history

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

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

The first opportunity to handle money …

Treasure Island

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Sonnets

The medieval world order

By Günter Hoffmann

The Idiot

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

of the MoneyMuseum

... and its consequences

a picture tour

a video podcast

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Radetzkymarsch

a coin tour

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Gotha numaria, 1730

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

by Peter Wolf

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

by Marcus Junkelmann

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Voltaire and Rousseau

Moby Dick

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

a picture tour

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

Fahrenheit 451

two examples

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

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

a chart service for the investor

a pictoure tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a video podcast

Satyricon

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

eine Bildertour

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Walden or Life in the Woods

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

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

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Mrs Jenny Treibel

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

of the MoneyMuseum

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

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

- from the Vikings until today

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Filmduration: 29 minutes

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

The sea wolf

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Oblomow

Filmduration: 39 minutes

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

a coin tour

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

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

a picture tour

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

The Scarlet Letter

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

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

a coin tour

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

Short video on how to attain it

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

New Atlas, 1710

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

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

visually explained

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Collected Fairy Tales

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

The Maltese Falcon

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Middlemarch

... and its Relation to Money

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Youth without God

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag