Digging in the archive

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

Meistererzählungen

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

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

The Turn of the Screw

Four books on measurement

... and its Relation to Money

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

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

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

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

Reminiscences

a chart service for the investor

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Master Tales

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

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

An analysis on social justice

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

The first opportunity to handle money …

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

a picture tour

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Max Havelaar

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Stopfkuchen.

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

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

The city

by Peter Wolf

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

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

by Harald Wessbecher

I Ging

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

A Christmas Carol

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Der Steppenwolf

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

a picture tour

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Fahrenheit 451

Sense and Sensibility

... since when has money been in existence?

Tewje, the Milkman

Treasure Island

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Bel-Ami

Ideal and Reality

Master Tales

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Pride and Prejudice

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Charles Baudelaire

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

A report from Ruanda

a picture tour

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

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

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

Holland in the 17th century

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

a chart service for the investor

Collected Fairy Tales

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

The Maltese Falcon

a coin tour

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

The Decameron

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Effi Briest

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Aldous Huxley

Don Quixote

a coin tour

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

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

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

a video podcast

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

a coin tour

a coin tour

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a video podcast

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

for the investor

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Collection MoneyMuseum

The sea wolf

a picture tour

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

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Gotha numaria, 1730

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

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

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

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

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

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

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

Filmduration: 52 minutes

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

ThurnierBuch, 1532

By Katrin Schär

two examples

Features of the Human Face on Coins

The medieval world order

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Travel around the World in 80 Days

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Filmduration: 20 minutes

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

a picture tour

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

By Günter Hoffmann

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

Get an answer in 90 seconds

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

a picture tour

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Physiognomic Fragments

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Germinal

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Old Goriot

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

a picture tour

Meistererzählungen

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

– the Birth of Tolerance

The Great Gatsby

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

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

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

Conversation Book

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Il Milione

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

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

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

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Madame Bovary

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

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

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Satyricon

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Canterbury Tales

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

a video podcast

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

a picture tour

Middlemarch

Carmen

Moby Dick

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Les Misérables

- Islamic Money

Clarissa Harlowe

a coin podcast

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Voltaire and Rousseau

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

Published 1948

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

a coin tour

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Walden or Life in the Woods

a coin tour

Introduction Roman Republic

A short statement

The poor man in Tockenburg

Change of Climate as trigger

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Brigitta and other tales

visually explained

Who wanted the crusades?

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

The Scarlet Letter

Money defined in seven categories

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

a coin tour

a picture tour

a coin tour

... and its consequences

Vanity Fair

a coin tour

by Lukas M. Schneider

Stiller

Wuthering Heights

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

in Classical Antiquity

of the MoneyMuseum

Oblomow

Table talk

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

© Andreas Platthaus

a video podcast

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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".

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

The Idiot

On Human Relations

Erewhon

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

... on justice and freedom of action

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

The Beautiful and the Damned

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

publiziert 1716

in the money markets

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

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

The Martian Chronicles

of Switzerland.

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Self-portrait

by Andreas Urs Sommer

by Robert Schneebeli

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

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

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

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

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

a picture tour

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

15 stories

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Mrs Jenny Treibel

a coin tour

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

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

a coin tour

Filmduration: 32 minutes

a coin tour

of the MoneyMuseum

The Forgers

- from the Vikings until today

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

a coin tour

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

- The Yen

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

beautiful High Relief Coinage

a view from history

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Jane Eyre

a coin-podcast

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

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

by Carol Schwyzer

a picture tour

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Consolation of Philosophy

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Sonnets

- Respectable and Trustworthy

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

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

Robinson Crusoe

New Atlas, 1710

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

by Herbert George Wells

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

of the MoneyMuseum

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

- Money in different Forms

by Dagmar Lorenz

by Ursula Kampmann

a pictoure tour

of the MoneyMuseum

- the Basis for Everyday Money

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

a coin tour

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

by Marcus Junkelmann

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

a picture tour

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Radetzkymarsch

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

eine Bildertour

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

a coin tour

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

Great Expectations

a picture tour

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Youth without God

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

1816: The year without a Summer

Animal Farm

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Short video on how to attain it

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