archive of documents

of the MoneyMuseum

in the money markets

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

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

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

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

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

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

Pride and Prejudice

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

a coin tour

Walden or Life in the Woods

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

a picture tour

Erewhon

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

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

The Martian Chronicles

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

... and its consequences

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

The Decameron

Aldous Huxley

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

a coin tour

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Mrs Jenny Treibel

a coin tour

Four books on measurement

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

Videoduration: 15 minutes

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

The Forgers

Stopfkuchen.

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

The Beautiful and the Damned

A short statement

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

a picture tour

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Carmen

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

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

a chart service for the investor

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

by Andreas Urs Sommer

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

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

The golden Age / Dream Days

a pictoure tour

Change of Climate as trigger

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

of the MoneyMuseum

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

of the MoneyMuseum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Who wanted the crusades?

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

The Scarlet Letter

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Filmduration: 20 minutes

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

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

Holland in the 17th century

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Effi Briest

two examples

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Don Quixote

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Gotha numaria, 1730

The Idiot

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

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

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

a picture tour

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

by Harald Wessbecher

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

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

The sea wolf

Wuthering Heights

... since when has money been in existence?

5th Century B.C. Athens

eine Bildertour

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

a video podcast

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

– the Birth of Tolerance

- Money in different Forms

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

Physiognomic Fragments

Sense and Sensibility

a coin tour

Filmduration: 52 minutes

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

Oblomow

Radetzkymarsch

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

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

a chart service for the investor

Conversation Book

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

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

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

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

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

a picture tour

a picture tour

Vanity Fair

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

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

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

Money defined in seven categories

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

a picture tour

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Master Tales

by Lukas M. Schneider

AudioGuide Roman Republic

New Atlas, 1710

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

Middlemarch

A report from Ruanda

Bel-Ami

a picture tour

The Turn of the Screw

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

Collection MoneyMuseum

- The Yen

A successful concept for the investor

Voltaire and Rousseau

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Collected Fairy Tales

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Get an answer in 90 seconds

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

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

a coin podcast

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

Meistererzählungen

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Treasure Island

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

of the MoneyMuseum

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Filmduration: 29 minutes

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

a coin tour

a picture tour

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

The Maltese Falcon

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Madame Bovary

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

a picture tour

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

© Andreas Platthaus

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

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

... on justice and freedom of action

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

Les Misérables

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

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

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

- from the Vikings until today

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

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

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

Table talk

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

Old Goriot

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

a picture tour

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

AudioGuide Roman Republic

by Marcus Junkelmann

publiziert 1716

Der Steppenwolf

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

Self-portrait

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Thus spoke Zarathustra

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Satyricon

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Canterbury Tales

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

Short video on how to attain it

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

by Peter Wolf

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Introduction Roman Republic

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

1816: The year without a Summer

by Robert Schneebeli

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Features of the Human Face on Coins

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

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

a coin-podcast

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

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

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

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

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Max Havelaar

The medieval world order

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

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

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Robinson Crusoe

Published 1948

by Carol Schwyzer

a coin tour

On Human Relations

Tewje, the Milkman

The Great Gatsby

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

... and its Relation to Money

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Stiller

- the Basis for Everyday Money

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

Charles Baudelaire

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Consolation of Philosophy

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Filmduration: 32 minutes

a coin tour

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

a picture tour

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Sonnets

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Brigitta and other tales

a coin tour

a coin tour

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

By Katrin Schär

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

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

Great Expectations

a video podcast

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a coin tour

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

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

- Islamic Money

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

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

for the investor

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

I Ging

Master Tales

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

a coin tour

An analysis on social justice

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

Il Milione

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

The poor man in Tockenburg

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

a video podcast

Moby Dick

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Animal Farm

by Dagmar Lorenz

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

in Classical Antiquity

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

a picture tour

The first opportunity to handle money …

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Germinal

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Jane Eyre

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

Ideal and Reality

Reminiscences

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Meistererzählungen

a coin tour

a view from history

The city

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

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

Fahrenheit 451

by Herbert George Wells

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

visually explained

Filmduration: 7 minutes

A Christmas Carol

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

a coin tour

Youth without God

a video podcast

a picture tour

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

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

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

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

By Günter Hoffmann

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Clarissa Harlowe

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

a picture tour

15 stories

of Switzerland.

by Ursula Kampmann