Digging in the archive

a coin tour

The city

The poor man in Tockenburg

of the MoneyMuseum

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Germinal

Meistererzählungen

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

The Great Gatsby

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

- Respectable and Trustworthy

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

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

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Short video on how to attain it

a chart service for the investor

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

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

Four books on measurement

The first opportunity to handle money …

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

eine Bildertour

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

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

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

a coin tour

in the money markets

a coin tour

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

two examples

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

A successful concept for the investor

by Andreas Urs Sommer

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

Pride and Prejudice

Ideal and Reality

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

a view from history

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

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

Sonnets

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

The Turn of the Screw

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

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

a picture tour

a coin tour

a coin tour

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

a coin tour

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

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

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

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Aldous Huxley

a picture tour

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

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

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

... and its Relation to Money

Treasure Island

a coin tour

a picture tour

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

a coin tour

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

Bel-Ami

Vanity Fair

Gotha numaria, 1730

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

a coin tour

Voltaire and Rousseau

a chart service for the investor

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

© Andreas Platthaus

Master Tales

Self-portrait

Old Goriot

publiziert 1716

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

- Islamic Money

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

of the MoneyMuseum

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Physiognomic Fragments

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Oblomow

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

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

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

Wuthering Heights

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

a video podcast

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

Nero‘s Propaganda

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

visually explained

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

Erewhon

Who wanted the crusades?

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

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

a pictoure tour

– the Birth of Tolerance

An analysis on social justice

Holland in the 17th century

A Christmas Carol

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

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Introduction Roman Republic

a podcast of the year in 1527

Max Havelaar

... on justice and freedom of action

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Filmduration: 72 minutes

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

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

Filmduration: 23 minutes

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Collection MoneyMuseum

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

a picture tour

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

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

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

a picture tour

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

of Switzerland.

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

Walden or Life in the Woods

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

... and its consequences

Don Quixote

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

a picture tour

- Money in different Forms

Robinson Crusoe

a picture tour

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

The Martian Chronicles

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

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Les Misérables

- The Yen

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

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

a picture tour

Tewje, the Milkman

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

... since when has money been in existence?

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Conversation Book

15 stories

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Stopfkuchen.

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

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

Carmen

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

a picture tour

by Dagmar Lorenz

Change of Climate as trigger

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

A report from Ruanda

by Harald Wessbecher

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

by Lukas M. Schneider

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

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

a video podcast

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

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

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

The sea wolf

The Forgers

The Beautiful and the Damned

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

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Money defined in seven categories

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a video podcast

a picture tour

Middlemarch

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

by Carol Schwyzer

Madame Bovary

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

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

Collected Fairy Tales

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

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Charles Baudelaire

A short statement

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- from the Vikings until today

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

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

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

The Maltese Falcon

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

by Herbert George Wells

Milan between 1412 and 1447

5th Century B.C. Athens

of the MoneyMuseum

by Robert Schneebeli

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

1816: The year without a Summer

Animal Farm

Il Milione

for the investor

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

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

a picture tour

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Videoduration: 15 minutes

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Travel around the World in 80 Days

AudioGuide Roman Republic

The Decameron

On Human Relations

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

a picture tour

Moby Dick

Meistererzählungen

a coin tour

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Brigitta and other tales

a coin tour

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Clarissa Harlowe

Der Steppenwolf

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Published 1948

Canterbury Tales

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Sense and Sensibility

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

a video podcast

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

a coin tour

Jane Eyre

a coin-podcast

Stiller

By Katrin Schär

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

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

Fahrenheit 451

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Master Tales

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Radetzkymarsch

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

a coin podcast

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Get an answer in 90 seconds

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

a picture tour

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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

in Classical Antiquity

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

by Peter Wolf

By Günter Hoffmann

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

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

The medieval world order

Table talk

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Filmduration: 32 minutes

by Ursula Kampmann

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

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

Effi Briest

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

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

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

a picture tour

Great Expectations

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

The Scarlet Letter

The Idiot

a coin tour

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Youth without God

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

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

Consolation of Philosophy

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Reminiscences

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Satyricon

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Filmduration: 39 minutes

I Ging

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

New Atlas, 1710

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany