Digging in the archive

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

Gotha numaria, 1730

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

a picture tour

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

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

a picture tour

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Vanity Fair

The Maltese Falcon

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

Filmduration: 21 minutes

by Harald Wessbecher

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Conversation Book

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

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

Clarissa Harlowe

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

a coin tour

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

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

a picture tour

... and its consequences

a coin tour

by Peter Wolf

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

New Atlas, 1710

in the money markets

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Erewhon

© Andreas Platthaus

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

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

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

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

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

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

a video podcast

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

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Consolation of Philosophy

a coin tour

Carmen

Moby Dick

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

An analysis on social justice

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

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

On Human Relations

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

The Decameron

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Table talk

Oblomow

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

Les Misérables

Introduction Roman Republic

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Videoduration: 15 minutes

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

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

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

a chart service for the investor

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a pictoure tour

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

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

eine Bildertour

Mrs Jenny Treibel

a coin tour

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

a picture tour

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

a coin tour

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

... and its Relation to Money

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

a coin tour

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

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

Middlemarch

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

- The Yen

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

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

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

of the MoneyMuseum

By Günter Hoffmann

Stiller

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

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

by Robert Schneebeli

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

by Herbert George Wells

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Reminiscences

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

in Classical Antiquity

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

a video podcast

- from the Vikings until today

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

The Scarlet Letter

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Youth without God

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Jane Eyre

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Der Steppenwolf

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

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

1816: The year without a Summer

financial markets and the virtuality of values

15 stories

two examples

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

a picture tour

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

The first opportunity to handle money …

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

a coin tour

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

ThurnierBuch, 1532

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

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

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

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

a chart service for the investor

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

visually explained

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

a picture tour

Holland in the 17th century

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Animal Farm

Filmduration: 29 minutes

of the MoneyMuseum

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Ideal and Reality

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

A Christmas Carol

a picture tour

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

a picture tour

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Stopfkuchen.

I Ging

a video podcast

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

by Ursula Kampmann

Walden or Life in the Woods

Tewje, the Milkman

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

Who wanted the crusades?

of the MoneyMuseum

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

a picture tour

of Switzerland.

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

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

Thus spoke Zarathustra

The Forgers

a coin tour

beautiful High Relief Coinage

The Idiot

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Sonnets

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

Get an answer in 90 seconds

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

by Marcus Junkelmann

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Meistererzählungen

Pride and Prejudice

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Don Quixote

Radetzkymarsch

Germinal

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Short video on how to attain it

The medieval world order

A successful concept for the investor

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

Effi Briest

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

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

a coin podcast

Fahrenheit 451

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Collected Fairy Tales

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

Physiognomic Fragments

Milan between 1412 and 1447

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

Great Expectations

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Filmduration: 32 minutes

a coin-podcast

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

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

Master Tales

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

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

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

The poor man in Tockenburg

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

Self-portrait

Published 1948

a coin tour

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

for the investor

... on justice and freedom of action

Bel-Ami

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

A report from Ruanda

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Master Tales

a picture tour

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

By Katrin Schär

J. R. R. Tolkien

Il Milione

by Carol Schwyzer

A short statement

– the Birth of Tolerance

a picture tour

- Respectable and Trustworthy

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

Canterbury Tales

a coin tour

by Andreas Urs Sommer

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

The Great Gatsby

The Turn of the Screw

Voltaire and Rousseau

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

Max Havelaar

The sea wolf

a coin tour

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Sense and Sensibility

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

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

publiziert 1716

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

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

The city

Satyricon

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

by Dagmar Lorenz

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Filmduration: 7 minutes

The Martian Chronicles

Brigitta and other tales

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

a video podcast

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Filmduration: 34 minutes

The Beautiful and the Damned

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Meistererzählungen

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

Charles Baudelaire

Money defined in seven categories

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

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

Four books on measurement

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

a coin tour

... since when has money been in existence?

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a coin tour

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

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Old Goriot

a picture tour

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

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

a picture tour

Wuthering Heights

Collection MoneyMuseum

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

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

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

Treasure Island

a coin tour

Aldous Huxley

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

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

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

- Islamic Money

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

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Robinson Crusoe

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Change of Climate as trigger

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

a coin tour

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

a picture tour

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

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

a view from history

Madame Bovary

- Money in different Forms