Digging in the archive

... since when has money been in existence?

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

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

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

New Atlas, 1710

a coin tour

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

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

a video podcast

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

a view from history

a coin tour

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a coin tour

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

a coin tour

Vanity Fair

a picture tour

1816: The year without a Summer

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

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

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

The city

Introduction Roman Republic

a video podcast

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Short video on how to attain it

- The Yen

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

eine Bildertour

Les Misérables

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Youth without God

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

A successful concept for the investor

a picture tour

Who wanted the crusades?

a picture tour

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

Filmduration: 32 minutes

a picture tour

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

two examples

The medieval world order

a coin tour

by Harald Wessbecher

Holland in the 17th century

... and its Relation to Money

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

by Robert Schneebeli

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

of Switzerland.

The Martian Chronicles

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

A report from Ruanda

Voltaire and Rousseau

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

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Max Havelaar

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Beautiful and the Damned

An analysis on social justice

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

a picture tour

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

of the MoneyMuseum

Money defined in seven categories

... and its consequences

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Stiller

Brigitta and other tales

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

Wuthering Heights

By Günter Hoffmann

Milan between 1412 and 1447

On Human Relations

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

a picture tour

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Carmen

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Lukas M. Schneider

By Katrin Schär

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

A short statement

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

a coin tour

a chart service for the investor

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

The sea wolf

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

a video podcast

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

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Tewje, the Milkman

a coin tour

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Erewhon

Physiognomic Fragments

Features of the Human Face on Coins

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

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

Old Goriot

Animal Farm

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

The Maltese Falcon

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

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

Change of Climate as trigger

Nero‘s Propaganda

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

a pictoure tour

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

- Islamic Money

Effi Briest

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

- Money in different Forms

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

a picture tour

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

I Ging

a coin tour

A Christmas Carol

in the money markets

Master Tales

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

in Classical Antiquity

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

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

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

beautiful High Relief Coinage

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Charles Baudelaire

a coin tour

Don Quixote

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

Jane Eyre

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Great Expectations

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

a picture tour

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

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

a coin tour

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

Collected Fairy Tales

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

Walden or Life in the Woods

AudioGuide Roman Republic

by Andreas Urs Sommer

for the investor

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

publiziert 1716

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Gotha numaria, 1730

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

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

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

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

Madame Bovary

a picture tour

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

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

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Master Tales

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

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

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

of the MoneyMuseum

The Forgers

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

by Marcus Junkelmann

Pride and Prejudice

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

The Decameron

visually explained

The poor man in Tockenburg

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

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Germinal

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Sense and Sensibility

Il Milione

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Filmduration: 52 minutes

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

of the MoneyMuseum

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Meistererzählungen

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

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

Aldous Huxley

a coin tour

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

by Carol Schwyzer

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Self-portrait

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Table talk

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

a picture tour

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

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

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

by Peter Wolf

a coin tour

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

The Idiot

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Middlemarch

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

Der Steppenwolf

a coin tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

Fahrenheit 451

Reminiscences

The golden Age / Dream Days

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

a picture tour

15 stories

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Great Gatsby

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

a picture tour

Consolation of Philosophy

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Sonnets

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

The Scarlet Letter

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

a coin-podcast

Videoduration: 15 minutes

of the MoneyMuseum

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

- Respectable and Trustworthy

by Herbert George Wells

Satyricon

by Ursula Kampmann

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Treasure Island

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a coin tour

a picture tour

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

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

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Four books on measurement

Clarissa Harlowe

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

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

a video podcast

a coin podcast

Meistererzählungen

© Andreas Platthaus

Travel around the World in 80 Days

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

Stopfkuchen.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

ThurnierBuch, 1532

5th Century B.C. Athens

Collection MoneyMuseum

Filmduration: 29 minutes

financial markets and the virtuality of values

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Oblomow

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Published 1948

... on justice and freedom of action

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

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

a chart service for the investor

Canterbury Tales

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

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

Bel-Ami

Ideal and Reality

The first opportunity to handle money …

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

a coin tour

The Turn of the Screw

Robinson Crusoe

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

Moby Dick

- from the Vikings until today

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

Conversation Book

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

a picture tour

by Dagmar Lorenz

Filmduration: 23 minutes

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Radetzkymarsch