Digging in the archive

a coin podcast

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

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

- The Yen

Master Tales

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Reminiscences

By Katrin Schär

a coin tour

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Middlemarch

Self-portrait

a picture tour

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

Get an answer in 90 seconds

New Atlas, 1710

a coin tour

Meistererzählungen

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

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

a picture tour

1816: The year without a Summer

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Ideal and Reality

a coin tour

© Andreas Platthaus

– the Birth of Tolerance

Filmduration: 20 minutes

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Der Steppenwolf

Collected Fairy Tales

A successful concept for the investor

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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

Canterbury Tales

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Collection MoneyMuseum

Features of the Human Face on Coins

The Maltese Falcon

Aldous Huxley

Animal Farm

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Meistererzählungen

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

- from the Vikings until today

An analysis on social justice

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

a coin tour

in the money markets

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

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

The Forgers

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

Charles Baudelaire

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

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

ThurnierBuch, 1532

a picture tour

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

By Günter Hoffmann

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

Published 1948

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

a picture tour

Il Milione

a pictoure tour

by Lukas M. Schneider

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

A report from Ruanda

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Youth without God

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Filmduration: 7 minutes

a picture tour

The medieval world order

a picture tour

Pride and Prejudice

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Who wanted the crusades?

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

Conversation Book

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Great Expectations

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

Filmduration: 52 minutes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

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

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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

a picture tour

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Carmen

Money defined in seven categories

Stiller

a picture tour

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

On Human Relations

Clarissa Harlowe

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Thus spoke Zarathustra

a coin tour

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Don Quixote

The golden Age / Dream Days

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

for the investor

AudioGuide Roman Republic

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

publiziert 1716

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

... and its Relation to Money

by Andreas Urs Sommer

The Idiot

Introduction Roman Republic

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

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

Change of Climate as trigger

a video podcast

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

by Ursula Kampmann

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

Master Tales

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Milan between 1412 and 1447

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

a coin tour

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

... on justice and freedom of action

Satyricon

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Voltaire and Rousseau

Sense and Sensibility

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

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

a view from history

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

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

by Harald Wessbecher

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Madame Bovary

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

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

by Peter Wolf

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

The city

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".

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

a chart service for the investor

Physiognomic Fragments

a coin tour

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

The Turn of the Screw

a chart service for the investor

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

eine Bildertour

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

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

a coin tour

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

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

The poor man in Tockenburg

by Robert Schneebeli

Oblomow

a picture tour

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

The Scarlet Letter

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Max Havelaar

a picture tour

Brigitta and other tales

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

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

Stopfkuchen.

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

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

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Germinal

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Vanity Fair

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

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

a picture tour

a picture tour

Old Goriot

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

J. R. R. Tolkien

visually explained

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

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

A Christmas Carol

- Money in different Forms

a coin tour

of the MoneyMuseum

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

beautiful High Relief Coinage

a coin tour

Treasure Island

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

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Tewje, the Milkman

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

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

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

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

a video podcast

A short statement

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

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

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

a video podcast

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

The Beautiful and the Damned

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Consolation of Philosophy

Jane Eyre

of the MoneyMuseum

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

of the MoneyMuseum

by Dagmar Lorenz

Bel-Ami

by Herbert George Wells

Nero‘s Propaganda

... since when has money been in existence?

I Ging

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

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

- Islamic Money

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

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

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

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

a coin tour

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Filmduration: 72 minutes

The Great Gatsby

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

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

The sea wolf

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

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

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

a podcast of the year in 1527

... and its consequences

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

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

Moby Dick

by Carol Schwyzer

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

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

a coin tour

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

Filmduration: 34 minutes

of the MoneyMuseum

Four books on measurement

of Switzerland.

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Gotha numaria, 1730

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

a coin tour

Holland in the 17th century

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Videoduration: 15 minutes

a picture tour

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

Robinson Crusoe

a coin-podcast

a coin tour

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

The Decameron

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

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

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Walden or Life in the Woods

- Respectable and Trustworthy

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Wuthering Heights

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Les Misérables

a coin tour

Table talk

two examples

Radetzkymarsch

15 stories

Short video on how to attain it

Effi Briest

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

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

The Martian Chronicles

a picture tour

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Fahrenheit 451

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

a video podcast

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

Sonnets

Filmduration: 21 minutes

The first opportunity to handle money …

in Classical Antiquity

Erewhon

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

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro