Digging in the archive

Animal Farm

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

a picture tour

Fahrenheit 451

Carmen

a picture tour

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

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

Clarissa Harlowe

Canterbury Tales

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

a coin podcast

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

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

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

by Herbert George Wells

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Introduction Roman Republic

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

for the investor

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

a picture tour

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

... on justice and freedom of action

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

a pictoure tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

financial markets and the virtuality of values

I Ging

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Meistererzählungen

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

a coin tour

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

a coin tour

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

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

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

Four books on measurement

Treasure Island

The sea wolf

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

a video podcast

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

The city

a view from history

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

Oblomow

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

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

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Videoduration: 15 minutes

a coin tour

a coin tour

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

5th Century B.C. Athens

a picture tour

a chart service for the investor

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

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

The Beautiful and the Damned

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

The Turn of the Screw

Stopfkuchen.

Master Tales

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

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

The medieval world order

Ideal and Reality

a picture tour

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Filmduration: 23 minutes

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

A short statement

An analysis on social justice

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Charles Baudelaire

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

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

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Voltaire and Rousseau

The Great Gatsby

New Atlas, 1710

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmduration: 20 minutes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

- Respectable and Trustworthy

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

By Günter Hoffmann

The Decameron

Master Tales

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

two examples

eine Bildertour

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

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

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

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

- Money in different Forms

a coin tour

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Jane Eyre

by Carol Schwyzer

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

Vanity Fair

Aldous Huxley

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

a coin tour

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Bel-Ami

By Katrin Schär

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

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

a coin tour

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

On Human Relations

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

a podcast of the year in 1527

a picture tour

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Middlemarch

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

a picture tour

a coin tour

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

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

of the MoneyMuseum

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Meistererzählungen

A successful concept for the investor

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The Forgers

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

Filmduration: 21 minutes

a coin-podcast

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

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

of Switzerland.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Table talk

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

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

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

Published 1948

... since when has money been in existence?

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

a coin tour

a picture tour

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

Der Steppenwolf

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Stiller

Filmduration: 39 minutes

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Holland in the 17th century

Moby Dick

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

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

in Classical Antiquity

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

of the MoneyMuseum

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Robinson Crusoe

Who wanted the crusades?

a video podcast

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

Sense and Sensibility

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

by Ursula Kampmann

Gotha numaria, 1730

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

Short video on how to attain it

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

The Scarlet Letter

Les Misérables

Money defined in seven categories

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

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

... and its Relation to Money

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Don Quixote

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

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

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

Self-portrait

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

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

Walden or Life in the Woods

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

a video podcast

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

Erewhon

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Effi Briest

15 stories

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

The poor man in Tockenburg

Milan between 1412 and 1447

AudioGuide Roman Republic

by Dagmar Lorenz

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

The Martian Chronicles

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

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Sonnets

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

a chart service for the investor

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

a picture tour

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

Wuthering Heights

The Maltese Falcon

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

Brigitta and other tales

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

Collected Fairy Tales

Physiognomic Fragments

Old Goriot

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

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

Youth without God

in the money markets

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

a picture tour

Great Expectations

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

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

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

a picture tour

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

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

1816: The year without a Summer

by Robert Schneebeli

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

a coin tour

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Travel around the World in 80 Days

The first opportunity to handle money …

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

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

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

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

a picture tour

Max Havelaar

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

The Idiot

a video podcast

a coin tour

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

- Islamic Money

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

Radetzkymarsch

Consolation of Philosophy

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

by Harald Wessbecher

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

a picture tour

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

of the MoneyMuseum

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

a coin tour

Madame Bovary

Change of Climate as trigger

Pride and Prejudice

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

of the MoneyMuseum

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

publiziert 1716

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Reminiscences

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

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

© Andreas Platthaus

Collection MoneyMuseum

- from the Vikings until today

by Lukas M. Schneider

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

a coin tour

a coin tour

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

Germinal

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

by Andreas Urs Sommer

of the MoneyMuseum

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

... and its consequences

visually explained

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

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

Il Milione

by Peter Wolf

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

Satyricon

a coin tour

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Tewje, the Milkman

Mrs Jenny Treibel

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

- The Yen

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Nero‘s Propaganda

A Christmas Carol

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

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

Conversation Book

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

A report from Ruanda