archive of documents

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

a coin-podcast

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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

a coin tour

a picture tour

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Master Tales

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

... since when has money been in existence?

by Dagmar Lorenz

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Meistererzählungen

a picture tour

Carmen

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Pride and Prejudice

a coin tour

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Published 1948

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

of Switzerland.

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

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

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

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

- Islamic Money

a coin tour

Max Havelaar

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

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

Oblomow

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

a view from history

© Andreas Platthaus

Clarissa Harlowe

Filmduration: 7 minutes

a coin tour

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

The Decameron

two examples

Short video on how to attain it

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

... on justice and freedom of action

A report from Ruanda

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

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Madame Bovary

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

in the money markets

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Sonnets

Aldous Huxley

a coin tour

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

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

a coin tour

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Conversation Book

by Harald Wessbecher

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

The Martian Chronicles

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

Physiognomic Fragments

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

of the MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

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

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Four books on measurement

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

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

Great Expectations

Filmduration: 20 minutes

a picture tour

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

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

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Ursula Kampmann

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

The first opportunity to handle money …

Robinson Crusoe

Milan between 1412 and 1447

a coin podcast

a coin tour

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

On Human Relations

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

A short statement

by Carol Schwyzer

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Vanity Fair

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

for the investor

The Idiot

Consolation of Philosophy

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

by Andreas Urs Sommer

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

a coin tour

a video podcast

a picture tour

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

Animal Farm

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Treasure Island

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

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

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

The medieval world order

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

beautiful High Relief Coinage

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

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Self-portrait

A Christmas Carol

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

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

a chart service for the investor

Fahrenheit 451

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

1816: The year without a Summer

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

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

Voltaire and Rousseau

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

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

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

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

of the MoneyMuseum

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

AudioGuide Roman Republic

a picture tour

Table talk

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Old Goriot

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

a chart service for the investor

The poor man in Tockenburg

Wuthering Heights

Il Milione

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

a picture tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Brigitta and other tales

Germinal

in Classical Antiquity

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

a picture tour

a picture tour

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

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

I Ging

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

The Forgers

Tewje, the Milkman

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

New Atlas, 1710

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

a picture tour

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Money defined in seven categories

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a video podcast

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

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

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

Introduction Roman Republic

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Satyricon

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Canterbury Tales

by Lukas M. Schneider

Bel-Ami

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

The Maltese Falcon

a coin tour

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

- Money in different Forms

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

The city

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

a picture tour

by Peter Wolf

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

Youth without God

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

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

The Turn of the Screw

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

eine Bildertour

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

- The Yen

Master Tales

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

a coin tour

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

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

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

a coin tour

Ideal and Reality

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

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

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Change of Climate as trigger

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

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

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

Sense and Sensibility

Reminiscences

A successful concept for the investor

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

of the MoneyMuseum

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Nero‘s Propaganda

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

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

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Middlemarch

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

Jane Eyre

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

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

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

Collected Fairy Tales

Charles Baudelaire

a picture tour

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

By Katrin Schär

Stopfkuchen.

15 stories

- from the Vikings until today

5th Century B.C. Athens

Radetzkymarsch

... and its consequences

by Robert Schneebeli

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

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

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

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Der Steppenwolf

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Meistererzählungen

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

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

Stiller

a coin tour

Don Quixote

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

a video podcast

Walden or Life in the Woods

by Marcus Junkelmann

a picture tour

Mrs Jenny Treibel

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Filmduration: 32 minutes

J. R. R. Tolkien

a picture tour

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

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

The Scarlet Letter

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

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

a picture tour

Effi Briest

The Beautiful and the Damned

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

a pictoure tour

Holland in the 17th century

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

publiziert 1716

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

By Günter Hoffmann

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

visually explained

a video podcast

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Collection MoneyMuseum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

a coin tour

... and its Relation to Money

Get an answer in 90 seconds

by Herbert George Wells

Travel around the World in 80 Days

The sea wolf

a coin tour

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

Les Misérables

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Who wanted the crusades?

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

The Great Gatsby

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

of the MoneyMuseum

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

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

Moby Dick

ThurnierBuch, 1532

a coin tour

An analysis on social justice

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Gotha numaria, 1730

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

of the MoneyMuseum

Erewhon