Stories

a picture tour

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

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

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

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

a podcast of the year in 1527

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

Don Quixote

by Lukas M. Schneider

a picture tour

a coin tour

The Martian Chronicles

Sense and Sensibility

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

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.

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

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

I Ging

a picture tour

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Videoduration: 15 minutes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

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

a coin podcast

a chart service for the investor

a coin tour

The golden Age / Dream Days

Who wanted the crusades?

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

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Nero‘s Propaganda

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

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

The sea wolf

The Great Gatsby

Max Havelaar

The Maltese Falcon

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Great Expectations

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

a picture tour

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

Stopfkuchen.

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

Radetzkymarsch

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

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Canterbury Tales

Gotha numaria, 1730

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Filmduration: 7 minutes

... and its consequences

New Atlas, 1710

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

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

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

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

a picture tour

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

a video podcast

Mrs Jenny Treibel

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Ideal and Reality

Filmduration: 34 minutes

a coin tour

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Der Steppenwolf

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

The first opportunity to handle money …

Il Milione

Wuthering Heights

a coin tour

Germinal

in the money markets

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

a pictoure tour

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

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Oblomow

a view from history

The Turn of the Screw

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

of the MoneyMuseum

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

by Herbert George Wells

in Classical Antiquity

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

Collected Fairy Tales

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

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

a picture tour

beautiful High Relief Coinage

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Conversation Book

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

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

a picture tour

Travel around the World in 80 Days

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

Carmen

of the MoneyMuseum

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Introduction Roman Republic

by Ursula Kampmann

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

by Peter Wolf

a picture tour

Pride and Prejudice

Charles Baudelaire

of the MoneyMuseum

for the investor

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Master Tales

by Carol Schwyzer

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

On Human Relations

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

The Forgers

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

By Günter Hoffmann

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

a coin tour

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Brigitta and other tales

by Robert Schneebeli

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

- Money in different Forms

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

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

a coin tour

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

of the MoneyMuseum

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Consolation of Philosophy

a picture tour

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

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

a chart service for the investor

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

J. R. R. Tolkien

Reminiscences

... and its Relation to Money

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a coin-podcast

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

a picture tour

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

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

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

Sonnets

Money defined in seven categories

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

... since when has money been in existence?

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Vanity Fair

A report from Ruanda

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

A short statement

Tewje, the Milkman

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Fahrenheit 451

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Moby Dick

Stiller

Jane Eyre

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

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

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

by Dagmar Lorenz

The Beautiful and the Damned

a video podcast

An analysis on social justice

of Switzerland.

- from the Vikings until today

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

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

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

Erewhon

Self-portrait

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

a coin tour

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

Master Tales

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

a coin tour

Table talk

Les Misérables

a coin tour

– the Birth of Tolerance

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- Respectable and Trustworthy

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

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

two examples

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Robinson Crusoe

Meistererzählungen

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

a coin tour

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

© Andreas Platthaus

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

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

A Christmas Carol

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

A successful concept for the investor

Treasure Island

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

eine Bildertour

Aldous Huxley

a picture tour

Physiognomic Fragments

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

Published 1948

Old Goriot

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

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

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

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

by Harald Wessbecher

By Katrin Schär

Features of the Human Face on Coins

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Collection MoneyMuseum

Meistererzählungen

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

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

- Islamic Money

Youth without God

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

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

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

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

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

Satyricon

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

15 stories

Filmduration: 52 minutes

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

1816: The year without a Summer

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Clarissa Harlowe

a picture tour

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

Effi Briest

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

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

- The Yen

a coin tour

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

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

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

The poor man in Tockenburg

Madame Bovary

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

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

Walden or Life in the Woods

The medieval world order

The Decameron

Short video on how to attain it

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

a picture tour

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

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

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

a picture tour

The Scarlet Letter

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

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

publiziert 1716

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

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

Four books on measurement

a coin tour

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Animal Farm

AudioGuide Roman Republic

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

... on justice and freedom of action

Bel-Ami

Voltaire and Rousseau

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

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

visually explained

Change of Climate as trigger

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Holland in the 17th century

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

a video podcast

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

a video podcast

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

a coin tour

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Middlemarch

The Idiot

a picture tour

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

The city

a coin tour

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

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

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

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