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Physiognomic Fragments

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

... on justice and freedom of action

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Filmduration: 23 minutes

a video podcast

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

a coin tour

a video podcast

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

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

1816: The year without a Summer

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

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

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Aldous Huxley

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

publiziert 1716

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Collected Fairy Tales

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Middlemarch

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

a coin tour

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

The golden Age / Dream Days

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

- from the Vikings until today

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

a chart service for the investor

The Decameron

The Great Gatsby

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

a chart service for the investor

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Charles Baudelaire

for the investor

The Forgers

The medieval world order

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

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

The Beautiful and the Damned

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

Sonnets

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Walden or Life in the Woods

A Christmas Carol

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.

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Max Havelaar

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

Fahrenheit 451

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

Short video on how to attain it

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Ideal and Reality

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

a picture tour

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

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

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

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

a coin tour

Germinal

By Katrin Schär

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

a picture tour

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Who wanted the crusades?

a picture tour

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

in the money markets

of the MoneyMuseum

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

eine Bildertour

Master Tales

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Gotha numaria, 1730

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Four books on measurement

a video podcast

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Nero‘s Propaganda

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

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

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

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

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

a picture tour

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

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

a picture tour

a coin tour

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

I Ging

Old Goriot

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Erewhon

The sea wolf

5th Century B.C. Athens

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

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

in Classical Antiquity

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

The Maltese Falcon

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

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

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

Youth without God

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

Conversation Book

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Meistererzählungen

Robinson Crusoe

The first opportunity to handle money …

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

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Bel-Ami

a coin tour

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

a coin tour

Master Tales

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

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

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

- The Yen

Stiller

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Self-portrait

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

a coin tour

The Turn of the Screw

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

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

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

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

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

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

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Jane Eyre

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

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

Filmduration: 52 minutes

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

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Reminiscences

a coin tour

beautiful High Relief Coinage

... and its Relation to Money

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

ThurnierBuch, 1532

a coin tour

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

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Wuthering Heights

by Lukas M. Schneider

a picture tour

a pictoure tour

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

Clarissa Harlowe

a coin podcast

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

of the MoneyMuseum

Der Steppenwolf

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

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

By Günter Hoffmann

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

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

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

of the MoneyMuseum

A report from Ruanda

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

by Harald Wessbecher

by Robert Schneebeli

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

a coin tour

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

a picture tour

a picture tour

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Radetzkymarsch

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Sense and Sensibility

two examples

Consolation of Philosophy

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

of Switzerland.

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

Voltaire and Rousseau

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

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

Published 1948

15 stories

Great Expectations

Pride and Prejudice

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Brigitta and other tales

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

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

... and its consequences

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

a picture tour

by Carol Schwyzer

Animal Farm

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

The city

a coin-podcast

Oblomow

A short statement

... since when has money been in existence?

visually explained

a picture tour

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Meistererzählungen

On Human Relations

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

Tewje, the Milkman

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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

Don Quixote

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

by Dagmar Lorenz

Il Milione

Stopfkuchen.

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

- Money in different Forms

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Change of Climate as trigger

Vanity Fair

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

The Idiot

Effi Briest

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

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Moby Dick

The poor man in Tockenburg

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

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

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The Martian Chronicles

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

a coin tour

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Madame Bovary

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

a picture tour

A successful concept for the investor

Thus spoke Zarathustra

- Respectable and Trustworthy

An analysis on social justice

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

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

a coin tour

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

- Islamic Money

© Andreas Platthaus

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Holland in the 17th century

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

a picture tour

by Herbert George Wells

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Treasure Island

by Ursula Kampmann

Introduction Roman Republic

The Scarlet Letter

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

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

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

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

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

Les Misérables

a picture tour

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Satyricon

– the Birth of Tolerance

a coin tour

Money defined in seven categories

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

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

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

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

by Peter Wolf

Collection MoneyMuseum

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

a video podcast

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Table talk

a coin tour

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Canterbury Tales

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

New Atlas, 1710

Carmen

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