Digging in the archive

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1816: The year without a Summer

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

The Decameron

The Martian Chronicles

Madame Bovary

a chart service for the investor

eine Bildertour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a video podcast

by Dagmar Lorenz

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

The poor man in Tockenburg

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

a picture tour

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

Middlemarch

publiziert 1716

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Jane Eyre

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

a picture tour

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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

Voltaire and Rousseau

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a picture tour

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

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a picture tour

a picture tour

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

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

Filmduration: 21 minutes

ThurnierBuch, 1532

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Meistererzählungen

Reminiscences

a podcast of the year in 1527

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Master Tales

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

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

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Der Steppenwolf

a coin tour

Walden or Life in the Woods

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

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

© Andreas Platthaus

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

a coin tour

Les Misérables

Treasure Island

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

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

Animal Farm

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

Great Expectations

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Clarissa Harlowe

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

visually explained

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

a picture tour

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

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

Oblomow

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Change of Climate as trigger

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

The Forgers

for the investor

... and its Relation to Money

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

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

The Scarlet Letter

Tewje, the Milkman

J. R. R. Tolkien

in the money markets

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

15 stories

a coin tour

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Who wanted the crusades?

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

New Atlas, 1710

by Harald Wessbecher

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Gotha numaria, 1730

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

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

a chart service for the investor

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

of the MoneyMuseum

On Human Relations

Don Quixote

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

The first opportunity to handle money …

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

The Beautiful and the Damned

Sonnets

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Radetzkymarsch

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

The Great Gatsby

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

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

... on justice and freedom of action

a coin tour

Filmduration: 7 minutes

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

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Max Havelaar

- from the Vikings until today

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

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

The city

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

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

Sense and Sensibility

a coin tour

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Introduction Roman Republic

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

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

in Classical Antiquity

Four books on measurement

A Christmas Carol

Robinson Crusoe

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Aldous Huxley

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Brigitta and other tales

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Travel around the World in 80 Days

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

- Money in different Forms

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

Short video on how to attain it

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

beautiful High Relief Coinage

a picture tour

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Il Milione

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

Get an answer in 90 seconds

a video podcast

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

An analysis on social justice

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

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

Stiller

The Maltese Falcon

a coin tour

Carmen

Physiognomic Fragments

two examples

a picture tour

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

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

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

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

of Switzerland.

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

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

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

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

Satyricon

Erewhon

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

Charles Baudelaire

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

- The Yen

... and its consequences

a pictoure tour

Bel-Ami

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

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

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

a picture tour

a coin-podcast

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

a view from history

a video podcast

a picture tour

Fahrenheit 451

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

A report from Ruanda

Table talk

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

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

a video podcast

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

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

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

Ideal and Reality

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Filmduration: 29 minutes

a coin tour

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Videoduration: 15 minutes

a picture tour

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

a coin podcast

a picture tour

The sea wolf

Filmduration: 34 minutes

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Master Tales

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

The Turn of the Screw

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

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

Canterbury Tales

a coin tour

Wuthering Heights

Stopfkuchen.

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

- Islamic Money

Self-portrait

Holland in the 17th century

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

by Andreas Urs Sommer

a coin tour

Meistererzählungen

By Günter Hoffmann

Youth without God

a coin tour

Pride and Prejudice

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

by Robert Schneebeli

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

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

a picture tour

Consolation of Philosophy

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Filmduration: 20 minutes

... since when has money been in existence?

by Marcus Junkelmann

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

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

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

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

by Herbert George Wells

a coin tour

by Peter Wolf

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

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

The Idiot

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

Old Goriot

Germinal

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

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

Money defined in seven categories

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Filmduration: 39 minutes

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

by Ursula Kampmann

A successful concept for the investor

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Vanity Fair

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

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

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

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

financial markets and the virtuality of values

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Effi Briest

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

By Katrin Schär

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

by Carol Schwyzer

Der Besuch der alten Dame

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

A short statement

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Published 1948

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Collected Fairy Tales

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Moby Dick

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

a coin tour

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

I Ging

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

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

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

Conversation Book

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

The medieval world order

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

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