Digging in the archive

By Katrin Schär

a coin tour

a coin tour

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

a picture tour

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

of the MoneyMuseum

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

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

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

a coin tour

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Meistererzählungen

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

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

a chart service for the investor

Fahrenheit 451

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Milan between 1412 and 1447

a picture tour

a picture tour

New Atlas, 1710

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

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

a picture tour

AudioGuide Roman Republic

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Aldous Huxley

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

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

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

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

J. R. R. Tolkien

Sonnets

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

a coin tour

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

Vanity Fair

Bel-Ami

in Classical Antiquity

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Don Quixote

Der Steppenwolf

I Ging

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

A Christmas Carol

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Master Tales

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Max Havelaar

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

The city

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

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

- Money in different Forms

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Filmduration: 20 minutes

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

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

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

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

Erewhon

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

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

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

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

by Harald Wessbecher

ThurnierBuch, 1532

The Scarlet Letter

for the investor

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

a video podcast

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

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.

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

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

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

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

a picture tour

The sea wolf

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

Filmduration: 39 minutes

by Dagmar Lorenz

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

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

Germinal

Great Expectations

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Reminiscences

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

a coin tour

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

by Lukas M. Schneider

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Carmen

- Respectable and Trustworthy

15 stories

Conversation Book

A report from Ruanda

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

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

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

a coin tour

by Herbert George Wells

... on justice and freedom of action

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

in the money markets

Meistererzählungen

a picture tour

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

a video podcast

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

Four books on measurement

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

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

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

The Turn of the Screw

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

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Short video on how to attain it

Table talk

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

a coin tour

Collected Fairy Tales

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

a pictoure tour

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

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

a coin tour

a picture tour

Robinson Crusoe

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

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

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

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Youth without God

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

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Treasure Island

Physiognomic Fragments

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

The poor man in Tockenburg

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

eine Bildertour

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

Published 1948

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Consolation of Philosophy

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

a video podcast

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

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

The medieval world order

Master Tales

a coin-podcast

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Moby Dick

Walden or Life in the Woods

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Change of Climate as trigger

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

Clarissa Harlowe

Ideal and Reality

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a coin tour

- the Basis for Everyday Money

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

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

A successful concept for the investor

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

Charles Baudelaire

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

The Martian Chronicles

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

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

financial markets and the virtuality of values

The Maltese Falcon

1816: The year without a Summer

© Andreas Platthaus

by Carol Schwyzer

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

Radetzkymarsch

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

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

a picture tour

a picture tour

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

by Peter Wolf

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Features of the Human Face on Coins

- The Yen

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmduration: 21 minutes

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

An analysis on social justice

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The Great Gatsby

Sense and Sensibility

a coin tour

a picture tour

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

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Wuthering Heights

... since when has money been in existence?

by Robert Schneebeli

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

a coin podcast

Old Goriot

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Effi Briest

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

a video podcast

5th Century B.C. Athens

The Beautiful and the Damned

Voltaire and Rousseau

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

The Decameron

On Human Relations

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Stiller

Gotha numaria, 1730

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

a coin tour

Travel around the World in 80 Days

a coin tour

a chart service for the investor

Oblomow

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

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Money defined in seven categories

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

of the MoneyMuseum

A short statement

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

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Self-portrait

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

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a picture tour

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

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Satyricon

Animal Farm

by Ursula Kampmann

a coin tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

- from the Vikings until today

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

- Islamic Money

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

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

two examples

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

of Switzerland.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a view from history

visually explained

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Les Misérables

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

a coin tour

Tewje, the Milkman

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

Filmduration: 34 minutes

The Forgers

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

of the MoneyMuseum

By Günter Hoffmann

by Marcus Junkelmann

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

publiziert 1716

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

a picture tour

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

Introduction Roman Republic

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

Get an answer in 90 seconds

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

The Idiot

Madame Bovary

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Jane Eyre

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Who wanted the crusades?

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Collection MoneyMuseum

... and its consequences

Stopfkuchen.

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

... and its Relation to Money

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Holland in the 17th century

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

The first opportunity to handle money …

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Pride and Prejudice

Canterbury Tales

Brigitta and other tales

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

a picture tour

Il Milione

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Middlemarch