Digging in the archive

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a picture tour

Great Expectations

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

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

Il Milione

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

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

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

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

in the money markets

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

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

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

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

by Robert Schneebeli

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Radetzkymarsch

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

a video podcast

eine Bildertour

of the MoneyMuseum

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a coin tour

1816: The year without a Summer

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

a picture tour

Moby Dick

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

a picture tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Jane Eyre

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Nero‘s Propaganda

Holland in the 17th century

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

of Switzerland.

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

The medieval world order

a coin tour

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Short video on how to attain it

by Dagmar Lorenz

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

a video podcast

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

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

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

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

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

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

a picture tour

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

a coin podcast

by Harald Wessbecher

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Charles Baudelaire

by Herbert George Wells

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

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

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

in Classical Antiquity

Germinal

J. R. R. Tolkien

a coin tour

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Fahrenheit 451

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Filmduration: 34 minutes

ThurnierBuch, 1532

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

- The Yen

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

The Scarlet Letter

visually explained

Voltaire and Rousseau

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

Master Tales

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

Introduction Roman Republic

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

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

a coin tour

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

The Beautiful and the Damned

financial markets and the virtuality of values

AudioGuide Roman Republic

A short statement

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

- Money in different Forms

two examples

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

for the investor

Conversation Book

- from the Vikings until today

a picture tour

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

a coin tour

Bel-Ami

of the MoneyMuseum

Canterbury Tales

Tewje, the Milkman

Brigitta and other tales

a coin tour

The Idiot

Treasure Island

The golden Age / Dream Days

– the Birth of Tolerance

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

The first opportunity to handle money …

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Mrs Jenny Treibel

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

Vanity Fair

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

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

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

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

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

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a video podcast

By Katrin Schär

a picture tour

a view from history

© Andreas Platthaus

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Who wanted the crusades?

Walden or Life in the Woods

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

a picture tour

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

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

Der Steppenwolf

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

A successful concept for the investor

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

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

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

Erewhon

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

beautiful High Relief Coinage

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

a coin tour

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

Stiller

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

By Günter Hoffmann

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

The Maltese Falcon

publiziert 1716

Get an answer in 90 seconds

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

a coin tour

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

a picture tour

The city

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

... on justice and freedom of action

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

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

A Christmas Carol

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Money defined in seven categories

of the MoneyMuseum

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a chart service for the investor

Max Havelaar

a pictoure tour

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Satyricon

A report from Ruanda

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

a picture tour

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

An analysis on social justice

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Consolation of Philosophy

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Pride and Prejudice

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Carmen

... and its Relation to Money

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

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

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

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

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a chart service for the investor

Filmduration: 20 minutes

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Four books on measurement

Meistererzählungen

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

a picture tour

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

... since when has money been in existence?

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

of the MoneyMuseum

Features of the Human Face on Coins

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

a picture tour

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

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

Oblomow

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

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

The poor man in Tockenburg

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

The Great Gatsby

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

... and its consequences

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

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

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

Collected Fairy Tales

Table talk

by Lukas M. Schneider

a coin tour

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

I Ging

Self-portrait

by Ursula Kampmann

Change of Climate as trigger

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

a coin-podcast

Old Goriot

Ideal and Reality

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

The Decameron

Physiognomic Fragments

Filmduration: 29 minutes

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Youth without God

Les Misérables

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

Effi Briest

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

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

Madame Bovary

a coin tour

a coin tour

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

a video podcast

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Filmduration: 52 minutes

by Carol Schwyzer

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

- Respectable and Trustworthy

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

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

- Islamic Money

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Published 1948

Meistererzählungen

Reminiscences

a coin tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

The Turn of the Screw

15 stories

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Master Tales

On Human Relations

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

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Sonnets

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

Animal Farm

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

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

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Thus spoke Zarathustra

The sea wolf

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

by Peter Wolf

Aldous Huxley

Clarissa Harlowe

Robinson Crusoe

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

New Atlas, 1710

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

a picture tour

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

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Stopfkuchen.

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Middlemarch

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

- the Basis for Everyday Money

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

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

Wuthering Heights

The Martian Chronicles

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

a coin tour

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

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Videoduration: 15 minutes

The Forgers

Milan between 1412 and 1447

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

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Collection MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Sense and Sensibility

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

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

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

a picture tour

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Don Quixote

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Gotha numaria, 1730

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

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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