Digging in the archive

Self-portrait

Oblomow

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

in Classical Antiquity

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Vanity Fair

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

a picture tour

Filmduration: 23 minutes

by Lukas M. Schneider

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

two examples

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

Tewje, the Milkman

Who wanted the crusades?

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

Der Besuch der alten Dame

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

a coin tour

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Master Tales

The Great Gatsby

I Ging

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

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

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Middlemarch

By Katrin Schär

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

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

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

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

Introduction Roman Republic

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Germinal

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

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

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

Robinson Crusoe

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Brigitta and other tales

a coin tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a video podcast

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

by Carol Schwyzer

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

Clarissa Harlowe

Radetzkymarsch

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

© Andreas Platthaus

a video podcast

Filmduration: 39 minutes

The golden Age / Dream Days

New Atlas, 1710

15 stories

by Harald Wessbecher

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

Treasure Island

a coin-podcast

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

... and its Relation to Money

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

On Human Relations

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

by Ursula Kampmann

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Stiller

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

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Max Havelaar

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

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

of the MoneyMuseum

by Andreas Urs Sommer

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a picture tour

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

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

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

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

visually explained

Table talk

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

a picture tour

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

ThurnierBuch, 1532

a coin tour

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

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

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

Old Goriot

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

a coin tour

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

by Peter Wolf

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

The Turn of the Screw

of the MoneyMuseum

A report from Ruanda

AudioGuide Roman Republic

The Martian Chronicles

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

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

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

a coin tour

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

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

a coin tour

The city

of the MoneyMuseum

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

The poor man in Tockenburg

- Money in different Forms

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

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

A successful concept for the investor

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

of Switzerland.

a podcast of the year in 1527

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

a picture tour

a picture tour

a picture tour

- the Basis for Everyday Money

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Charles Baudelaire

Fahrenheit 451

Meistererzählungen

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Animal Farm

a video podcast

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

by Dagmar Lorenz

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

A Christmas Carol

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

Videoduration: 15 minutes

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

The sea wolf

for the investor

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

- Respectable and Trustworthy

... on justice and freedom of action

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

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Don Quixote

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Herbert George Wells

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

An analysis on social justice

Filmduration: 52 minutes

a chart service for the investor

Reminiscences

Wuthering Heights

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

Filmduration: 21 minutes

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

By Günter Hoffmann

a coin tour

Collected Fairy Tales

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

Il Milione

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Four books on measurement

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

a picture tour

Mrs Jenny Treibel

The Scarlet Letter

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Great Expectations

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Short video on how to attain it

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

The medieval world order

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

... and its consequences

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

a coin tour

Der Steppenwolf

Filmduration: 20 minutes

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

AudioGuide Roman Republic

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Change of Climate as trigger

- The Yen

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

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

a picture tour

1816: The year without a Summer

Canterbury Tales

The Idiot

Sonnets

5th Century B.C. Athens

Physiognomic Fragments

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

publiziert 1716

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

a video podcast

Conversation Book

Les Misérables

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

- from the Vikings until today

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

Carmen

a coin tour

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Jane Eyre

Master Tales

Consolation of Philosophy

Satyricon

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

Meistererzählungen

a coin tour

Voltaire and Rousseau

Pride and Prejudice

Collection MoneyMuseum

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Effi Briest

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

a coin podcast

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

a picture tour

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

a picture tour

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

A short statement

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

Madame Bovary

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

Published 1948

The Maltese Falcon

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

a chart service for the investor

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

The first opportunity to handle money …

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

a picture tour

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

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

Holland in the 17th century

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Money defined in seven categories

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Ideal and Reality

– the Birth of Tolerance

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

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

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

Erewhon

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

a coin tour

Aldous Huxley

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

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

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

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

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

a pictoure tour

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

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

beautiful High Relief Coinage

eine Bildertour

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

... since when has money been in existence?

a view from history

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Filmduration: 7 minutes

in the money markets

Bel-Ami

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

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Moby Dick

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Youth without God

a coin tour

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

a picture tour

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

Stopfkuchen.

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

The Decameron

by Robert Schneebeli

a picture tour

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

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

The Forgers

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Sense and Sensibility

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

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

The Beautiful and the Damned

Gotha numaria, 1730

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

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

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

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

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

a coin tour

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

- Islamic Money

Walden or Life in the Woods