Digging in the archive

Great Expectations

New Atlas, 1710

Gotha numaria, 1730

for the investor

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

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

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

Short video on how to attain it

Pride and Prejudice

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

a podcast of the year in 1527

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

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

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

A Christmas Carol

Features of the Human Face on Coins

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

The Beautiful and the Damned

Table talk

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

a coin podcast

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Erewhon

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

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Filmduration: 7 minutes

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

a coin-podcast

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Satyricon

Tewje, the Milkman

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

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

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

a picture tour

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

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

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Dagmar Lorenz

by Peter Wolf

Meistererzählungen

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

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

Get an answer in 90 seconds

a coin tour

Les Misérables

Physiognomic Fragments

Wuthering Heights

By Günter Hoffmann

a coin tour

a picture tour

publiziert 1716

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

The first opportunity to handle money …

Carmen

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

Four books on measurement

The Idiot

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

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

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

a pictoure tour

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Walden or Life in the Woods

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

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

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

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

a coin tour

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

- The Yen

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

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

I Ging

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Filmduration: 23 minutes

by Carol Schwyzer

ThurnierBuch, 1532

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Stiller

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Master Tales

The poor man in Tockenburg

Thus spoke Zarathustra

a coin tour

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

a coin tour

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

by Ursula Kampmann

© Andreas Platthaus

The Scarlet Letter

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

a picture tour

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Effi Briest

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

- the Basis for Everyday Money

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

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Il Milione

The Great Gatsby

The medieval world order

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Old Goriot

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Charles Baudelaire

of the MoneyMuseum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Radetzkymarsch

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

by Herbert George Wells

Filmduration: 72 minutes

in Classical Antiquity

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

a video podcast

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

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

of the MoneyMuseum

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

two examples

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

of the MoneyMuseum

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

of Switzerland.

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

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

... since when has money been in existence?

by Marcus Junkelmann

15 stories

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Animal Farm

a view from history

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

in the money markets

5th Century B.C. Athens

The golden Age / Dream Days

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

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

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

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

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Filmduration: 29 minutes

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

Consolation of Philosophy

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

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Self-portrait

a video podcast

... and its consequences

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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

Introduction Roman Republic

The city

Collected Fairy Tales

financial markets and the virtuality of values

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

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

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

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

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

a picture tour

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

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

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

of the MoneyMuseum

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

a picture tour

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

beautiful High Relief Coinage

The Turn of the Screw

Holland in the 17th century

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a picture tour

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

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

Sonnets

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Conversation Book

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

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

The Forgers

Mrs Jenny Treibel

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Middlemarch

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

a coin tour

Filmduration: 20 minutes

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

- Money in different Forms

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

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

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

a coin tour

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

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

– the Birth of Tolerance

Money defined in seven categories

a coin tour

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Moby Dick

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Max Havelaar

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

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

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

... on justice and freedom of action

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

Don Quixote

a coin tour

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

a coin tour

A successful concept for the investor

a picture tour

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

a video podcast

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

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

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

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

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

Ideal and Reality

Master Tales

Published 1948

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

a picture tour

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

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Voltaire and Rousseau

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

Filmduration: 52 minutes

by Harald Wessbecher

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fahrenheit 451

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

a picture tour

Treasure Island

- Islamic Money

Reminiscences

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

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

Collection MoneyMuseum

Clarissa Harlowe

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

1816: The year without a Summer

a coin tour

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Jane Eyre

a coin tour

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Stopfkuchen.

Der Steppenwolf

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Milan between 1412 and 1447

... and its Relation to Money

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

A short statement

- from the Vikings until today

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

visually explained

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

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

The Decameron

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

Who wanted the crusades?

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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

by Robert Schneebeli

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

a coin tour

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

of the MoneyMuseum

Vanity Fair

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

The Martian Chronicles

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

Youth without God

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a chart service for the investor

- Respectable and Trustworthy

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Change of Climate as trigger

eine Bildertour

Meistererzählungen

An analysis on social justice

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

a picture tour

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

A report from Ruanda

The sea wolf

Germinal

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

Aldous Huxley

a picture tour

a picture tour

Bel-Ami

Canterbury Tales

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Brigitta and other tales

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

by Andreas Urs Sommer

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

The Maltese Falcon

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

a picture tour

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

a coin tour

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

AudioGuide Roman Republic

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Sense and Sensibility

a video podcast

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Oblomow

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

a chart service for the investor

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

By Katrin Schär

a picture tour

Robinson Crusoe

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

On Human Relations

Madame Bovary

Where did the Emperors take the money from?