Stories

a coin tour

Erewhon

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

Collection MoneyMuseum

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Introduction Roman Republic

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

of the MoneyMuseum

By Günter Hoffmann

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

a coin tour

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

Oblomow

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Madame Bovary

Collected Fairy Tales

Conversation Book

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

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

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

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

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

a coin tour

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

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

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

... and its Relation to Money

New Atlas, 1710

Brigitta and other tales

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

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

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Moby Dick

Four books on measurement

Les Misérables

Wuthering Heights

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

a coin tour

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

... since when has money been in existence?

a picture tour

– the Birth of Tolerance

Great Expectations

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

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

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

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

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

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

by Peter Wolf

a picture tour

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

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

a coin tour

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

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

Pride and Prejudice

of the MoneyMuseum

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

a coin tour

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Vanity Fair

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

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

Animal Farm

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

Jane Eyre

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

a coin podcast

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Nero‘s Propaganda

a picture tour

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

Videoduration: 15 minutes

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

15 stories

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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

Aldous Huxley

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

The Turn of the Screw

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

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

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

a coin tour

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Robinson Crusoe

a picture tour

Radetzkymarsch

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

for the investor

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

two examples

Sonnets

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

a picture tour

a picture tour

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

A successful concept for the investor

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

a pictoure tour

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

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Published 1948

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Der Steppenwolf

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Stopfkuchen.

a coin tour

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

a view from history

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

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

visually explained

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

a picture tour

a video podcast

beautiful High Relief Coinage

of Switzerland.

... on justice and freedom of action

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Don Quixote

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

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

a podcast of the year in 1527

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Voltaire and Rousseau

- Respectable and Trustworthy

- Money in different Forms

On Human Relations

of the MoneyMuseum

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

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

a picture tour

Money defined in seven categories

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

A short statement

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

eine Bildertour

Filmduration: 7 minutes

a chart service for the investor

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

The Forgers

a picture tour

The Scarlet Letter

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

Bel-Ami

a coin tour

by Marcus Junkelmann

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

a picture tour

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

by Andreas Urs Sommer

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Germinal

Youth without God

Gotha numaria, 1730

a coin tour

of the MoneyMuseum

Sense and Sensibility

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

Meistererzählungen

The Decameron

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

Fahrenheit 451

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Il Milione

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

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

ThurnierBuch, 1532

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

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

a coin tour

Change of Climate as trigger

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

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

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

Clarissa Harlowe

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

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

a coin tour

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

of the MoneyMuseum

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

publiziert 1716

Holland in the 17th century

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

Who wanted the crusades?

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

by Herbert George Wells

5th Century B.C. Athens

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

Get an answer in 90 seconds

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

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

a picture tour

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Effi Briest

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

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

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

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

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

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

in Classical Antiquity

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

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

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

The medieval world order

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

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

Old Goriot

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

by Lukas M. Schneider

A report from Ruanda

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Short video on how to attain it

Filmduration: 20 minutes

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

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

by Ursula Kampmann

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

- from the Vikings until today

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

Canterbury Tales

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

1816: The year without a Summer

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

The sea wolf

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Satyricon

Table talk

Treasure Island

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

a picture tour

a coin-podcast

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Max Havelaar

Charles Baudelaire

Reminiscences

Ideal and Reality

Walden or Life in the Woods

The Beautiful and the Damned

Meistererzählungen

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Master Tales

Tewje, the Milkman

The Martian Chronicles

Consolation of Philosophy

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Middlemarch

J. R. R. Tolkien

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

a chart service for the investor

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

a video podcast

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

A Christmas Carol

Filmduration: 23 minutes

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

- The Yen

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

a picture tour

by Robert Schneebeli

The first opportunity to handle money …

by Harald Wessbecher

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

The poor man in Tockenburg

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

a coin tour

The Great Gatsby

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

a coin tour

Filmduration: 72 minutes

I Ging

The Maltese Falcon

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

Self-portrait

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a video podcast

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Stiller

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

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

Master Tales

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

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

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

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

The Idiot

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

Carmen

By Katrin Schär

- Islamic Money

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Travel around the World in 80 Days

© Andreas Platthaus

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

a coin tour

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

... and its consequences

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

in the money markets

a video podcast

Filmduration: 32 minutes

by Carol Schwyzer

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Physiognomic Fragments

An analysis on social justice

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

The city