Digging in the archive

a chart service for the investor

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

- Islamic Money

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

1816: The year without a Summer

The medieval world order

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

a coin tour

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

a picture tour

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

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

a coin tour

Tewje, the Milkman

a video podcast

... and its consequences

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

Sonnets

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Youth without God

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

by Carol Schwyzer

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

Meistererzählungen

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

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

By Günter Hoffmann

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

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

Reminiscences

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

by Robert Schneebeli

Physiognomic Fragments

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

Filmduration: 52 minutes

two examples

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Carmen

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

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

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

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

Master Tales

Self-portrait

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

eine Bildertour

a picture tour

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

The Forgers

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

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

a coin tour

The Great Gatsby

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

a coin tour

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Oblomow

Clarissa Harlowe

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Satyricon

© Andreas Platthaus

for the investor

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

of the MoneyMuseum

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Robinson Crusoe

of the MoneyMuseum

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

a picture tour

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?

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Voltaire and Rousseau

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

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

Canterbury Tales

a picture tour

The first opportunity to handle money …

AudioGuide Roman Republic

The Maltese Falcon

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Who wanted the crusades?

Fahrenheit 451

a coin tour

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Filmduration: 29 minutes

On Human Relations

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Master Tales

a coin podcast

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

by Dagmar Lorenz

a picture tour

A short statement

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

financial markets and the virtuality of values

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a chart service for the investor

Table talk

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

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Moby Dick

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

Middlemarch

a picture tour

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

ThurnierBuch, 1532

A report from Ruanda

Collection MoneyMuseum

Conversation Book

a picture tour

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Stiller

- The Yen

The Beautiful and the Damned

The sea wolf

Filmduration: 7 minutes

a picture tour

The Idiot

Money defined in seven categories

... on justice and freedom of action

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

Meistererzählungen

Ideal and Reality

Erewhon

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Animal Farm

a coin tour

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Peter Wolf

Jane Eyre

The Martian Chronicles

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

Madame Bovary

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

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

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

visually explained

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Der Steppenwolf

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

The Turn of the Screw

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

a video podcast

- the Basis for Everyday Money

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Collected Fairy Tales

a picture tour

a coin-podcast

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

- Money in different Forms

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Charles Baudelaire

a coin tour

a picture tour

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

J. R. R. Tolkien

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

The golden Age / Dream Days

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

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

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

Il Milione

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

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

a view from history

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

a video podcast

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

Videoduration: 15 minutes

a picture tour

Vanity Fair

The city

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

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

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

a coin tour

by Andreas Urs Sommer

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

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

Sense and Sensibility

Four books on measurement

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

of the MoneyMuseum

Germinal

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

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

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Pride and Prejudice

a coin tour

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Walden or Life in the Woods

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Les Misérables

The Scarlet Letter

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

Aldous Huxley

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Bel-Ami

Filmduration: 23 minutes

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Nero‘s Propaganda

The poor man in Tockenburg

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

a coin tour

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

a coin tour

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Don Quixote

a coin tour

by Ursula Kampmann

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Effi Briest

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

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Radetzkymarsch

a coin tour

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

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

of Switzerland.

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

- from the Vikings until today

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

The Decameron

a picture tour

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

in Classical Antiquity

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

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

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

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

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

a picture tour

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

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

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

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

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

by Herbert George Wells

A Christmas Carol

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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.

Max Havelaar

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

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

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

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

a pictoure tour

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

Treasure Island

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

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

... and its Relation to Money

Mrs Jenny Treibel

15 stories

An analysis on social justice

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

a picture tour

by Harald Wessbecher

Change of Climate as trigger

Get an answer in 90 seconds

... since when has money been in existence?

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Consolation of Philosophy

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Introduction Roman Republic

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

I Ging

publiziert 1716

a coin tour

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

a video podcast

in the money markets

Published 1948

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

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

Great Expectations

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Holland in the 17th century

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

Short video on how to attain it

New Atlas, 1710

Old Goriot

By Katrin Schär

Wuthering Heights

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Stopfkuchen.

– the Birth of Tolerance

a coin tour

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

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

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

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

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Gotha numaria, 1730

A successful concept for the investor

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

Thus spoke Zarathustra

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

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

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