archive of documents

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

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

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

Oblomow

a coin tour

a picture tour

... and its consequences

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

by Andreas Urs Sommer

By Günter Hoffmann

AudioGuide Roman Republic

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Published 1948

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Collection MoneyMuseum

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

publiziert 1716

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

visually explained

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

a picture tour

The first opportunity to handle money …

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Holland in the 17th century

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

Tewje, the Milkman

a coin tour

Who wanted the crusades?

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

A short statement

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

a coin tour

a picture tour

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

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

A successful concept for the investor

ThurnierBuch, 1532

A Christmas Carol

a picture tour

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

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

by Carol Schwyzer

Great Expectations

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

a coin tour

Madame Bovary

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

The Beautiful and the Damned

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

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

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

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Meistererzählungen

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

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

financial markets and the virtuality of values

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

Satyricon

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

Introduction Roman Republic

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

a coin tour

On Human Relations

The Idiot

Fahrenheit 451

a video podcast

Der Steppenwolf

a chart service for the investor

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

a picture tour

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

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

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

a coin tour

by Peter Wolf

Vanity Fair

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

a picture tour

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Les Misérables

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

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

Sonnets

a picture tour

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Maltese Falcon

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

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

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

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

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

a picture tour

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Old Goriot

Clarissa Harlowe

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

a video podcast

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

by Harald Wessbecher

a coin tour

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

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Ideal and Reality

Wuthering Heights

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

a coin tour

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Der Besuch der alten Dame

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

a coin podcast

Max Havelaar

for the investor

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

The Great Gatsby

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

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

Gotha numaria, 1730

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

- The Yen

1816: The year without a Summer

The medieval world order

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

The city

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

by Herbert George Wells

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

Don Quixote

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

- Respectable and Trustworthy

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

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

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

Physiognomic Fragments

a coin tour

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Get an answer in 90 seconds

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Money defined in seven categories

in Classical Antiquity

a picture tour

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Collected Fairy Tales

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

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

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

Meistererzählungen

Pride and Prejudice

Middlemarch

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

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Charles Baudelaire

a video podcast

The poor man in Tockenburg

Self-portrait

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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

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

Treasure Island

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

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

a coin tour

Robinson Crusoe

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

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

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Reminiscences

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Walden or Life in the Woods

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Sense and Sensibility

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

a picture tour

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

The Martian Chronicles

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

Brigitta and other tales

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

of the MoneyMuseum

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

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

Short video on how to attain it

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

... on justice and freedom of action

A report from Ruanda

Thus spoke Zarathustra

a coin tour

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

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Youth without God

Carmen

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Aldous Huxley

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

15 stories

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a chart service for the investor

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Videoduration: 15 minutes

a picture tour

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

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

Effi Briest

by Robert Schneebeli

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

© Andreas Platthaus

Master Tales

Conversation Book

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

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

a view from history

... since when has money been in existence?

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

- the Basis for Everyday Money

of Switzerland.

By Katrin Schär

a picture tour

- from the Vikings until today

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

The sea wolf

New Atlas, 1710

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

in the money markets

beautiful High Relief Coinage

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

The Turn of the Screw

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

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

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

a picture tour

Filmduration: 20 minutes

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Filmduration: 52 minutes

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

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

a coin-podcast

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

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

Erewhon

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Consolation of Philosophy

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

– the Birth of Tolerance

eine Bildertour

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

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

Change of Climate as trigger

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

of the MoneyMuseum

Nero‘s Propaganda

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

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

- Islamic Money

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Jane Eyre

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

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

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Filmduration: 23 minutes

by Marcus Junkelmann

Features of the Human Face on Coins

An analysis on social justice

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

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

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

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Il Milione

two examples

a coin tour

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

Stiller

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

a pictoure tour

Canterbury Tales

a picture tour

a picture tour

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Voltaire and Rousseau

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

5th Century B.C. Athens

of the MoneyMuseum

Bel-Ami

Radetzkymarsch

Germinal

... and its Relation to Money

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Table talk

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

a video podcast

The Decameron

a coin tour

Moby Dick

Filmduration: 34 minutes

I Ging

by Ursula Kampmann

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

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

- Money in different Forms

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

The Forgers

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Stopfkuchen.

Master Tales

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

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

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

a coin tour

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

The Scarlet Letter

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

Four books on measurement

Animal Farm

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

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten