archive of documents

The medieval world order

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Published 1948

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

15 stories

Introduction Roman Republic

- the Basis for Everyday Money

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

two examples

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

a picture tour

© Andreas Platthaus

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

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Features of the Human Face on Coins

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Great Expectations

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Mrs Jenny Treibel

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

Madame Bovary

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

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

The Forgers

a video podcast

a picture tour

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

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

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

Self-portrait

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

eine Bildertour

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

The Beautiful and the Damned

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

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

Voltaire and Rousseau

- from the Vikings until today

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

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

a video podcast

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

a picture tour

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

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

Effi Briest

Ideal and Reality

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Filmduration: 32 minutes

of the MoneyMuseum

J. R. R. Tolkien

a chart service for the investor

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

visually explained

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

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

of the MoneyMuseum

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

a picture tour

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

Youth without God

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

A Christmas Carol

Filmduration: 52 minutes

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

a coin podcast

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

a coin tour

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

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?

Middlemarch

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Der Steppenwolf

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

Oblomow

The city

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Il Milione

by Herbert George Wells

a picture tour

The Maltese Falcon

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

a picture tour

a picture tour

Physiognomic Fragments

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

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

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

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

Change of Climate as trigger

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

Jane Eyre

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

Master Tales

... and its Relation to Money

a coin-podcast

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

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

a coin tour

ThurnierBuch, 1532

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

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

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Bel-Ami

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

AudioGuide Roman Republic

a coin tour

Les Misérables

A short statement

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.

On Human Relations

a podcast of the year in 1527

Filmduration: 34 minutes

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Table talk

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

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

Consolation of Philosophy

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Old Goriot

The Turn of the Screw

The Decameron

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

a coin tour

of the MoneyMuseum

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

New Atlas, 1710

Meistererzählungen

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

a pictoure tour

Nero‘s Propaganda

An analysis on social justice

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Gotha numaria, 1730

Erewhon

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

of the MoneyMuseum

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

by Carol Schwyzer

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

a picture tour

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Filmduration: 20 minutes

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

a picture tour

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

Collection MoneyMuseum

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

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

Canterbury Tales

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

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

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

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

A successful concept for the investor

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Master Tales

The first opportunity to handle money …

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

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

Walden or Life in the Woods

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Max Havelaar

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

beautiful High Relief Coinage

a video podcast

by Peter Wolf

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Don Quixote

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

in the money markets

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Vanity Fair

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Clarissa Harlowe

Stiller

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

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

Stopfkuchen.

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

- Money in different Forms

a picture tour

a coin tour

a chart service for the investor

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

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

for the investor

by Ursula Kampmann

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Moby Dick

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

A report from Ruanda

Thus spoke Zarathustra

a coin tour

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

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Short video on how to attain it

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

Get an answer in 90 seconds

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

... on justice and freedom of action

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Collected Fairy Tales

Meistererzählungen

Pride and Prejudice

a coin tour

Fahrenheit 451

By Günter Hoffmann

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

- The Yen

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

a picture tour

a picture tour

by Marcus Junkelmann

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Charles Baudelaire

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

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

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

Conversation Book

- Islamic Money

... and its consequences

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

1816: The year without a Summer

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Robinson Crusoe

a view from history

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

a video podcast

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Videoduration: 15 minutes

by Robert Schneebeli

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Animal Farm

a coin tour

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

by Dagmar Lorenz

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

The Great Gatsby

Four books on measurement

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

in Classical Antiquity

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a picture tour

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

Treasure Island

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

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

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

of the MoneyMuseum

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

The Scarlet Letter

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

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

a coin tour

financial markets and the virtuality of values

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

The poor man in Tockenburg

Satyricon

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

a coin tour

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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

Sense and Sensibility

I Ging

Reminiscences

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

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

Holland in the 17th century

a coin tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

The Idiot

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Germinal

publiziert 1716

Tewje, the Milkman

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

... since when has money been in existence?

a picture tour

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

Wuthering Heights

of Switzerland.

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

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Carmen

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

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

a coin tour

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

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

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

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

Aldous Huxley

The Martian Chronicles

a picture tour

Radetzkymarsch

Brigitta and other tales

The sea wolf

by Harald Wessbecher

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

a coin tour

Money defined in seven categories

By Katrin Schär

Sonnets