Digging in the archive

visually explained

Madame Bovary

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Pride and Prejudice

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

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

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

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

Collected Fairy Tales

eine Bildertour

Voltaire and Rousseau

of the MoneyMuseum

Jane Eyre

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

The first opportunity to handle money …

a picture tour

a coin tour

a coin tour

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

AudioGuide Roman Republic

The Turn of the Screw

Meistererzählungen

a picture tour

Der Steppenwolf

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

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

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Middlemarch

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

Master Tales

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Robert Schneebeli

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

The Maltese Falcon

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Les Misérables

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Tewje, the Milkman

Il Milione

Max Havelaar

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Videoduration: 15 minutes

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

by Peter Wolf

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Consolation of Philosophy

A report from Ruanda

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

Old Goriot

for the investor

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

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

a video podcast

A Christmas Carol

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

On Human Relations

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

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

a picture tour

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Four books on measurement

in the money markets

Change of Climate as trigger

Short video on how to attain it

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

a coin tour

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

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

By Günter Hoffmann

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

Don Quixote

a picture tour

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Walden or Life in the Woods

by Carol Schwyzer

Thus spoke Zarathustra

The Idiot

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

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

Table talk

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

a coin tour

Canterbury Tales

- The Yen

a coin tour

a picture tour

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Aldous Huxley

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

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

Vanity Fair

by Herbert George Wells

A successful concept for the investor

by Andreas Urs Sommer

a coin tour

a coin tour

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

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

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

The poor man in Tockenburg

Moby Dick

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

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

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

The Beautiful and the Damned

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

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Effi Briest

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Filmduration: 39 minutes

a coin tour

ThurnierBuch, 1532

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

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

a coin tour

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

Clarissa Harlowe

The Scarlet Letter

The medieval world order

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

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

in Classical Antiquity

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

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

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

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

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Holland in the 17th century

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Master Tales

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

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

a coin tour

a video podcast

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

by Lukas M. Schneider

Collection MoneyMuseum

Erewhon

Treasure Island

... since when has money been in existence?

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

a view from history

A short statement

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Carmen

Introduction Roman Republic

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Get an answer in 90 seconds

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

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

Meistererzählungen

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

two examples

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a coin podcast

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

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

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Robinson Crusoe

of the MoneyMuseum

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

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

The Great Gatsby

An analysis on social justice

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Fahrenheit 451

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

Great Expectations

Published 1948

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

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

a coin tour

a picture tour

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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

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

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

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

a picture tour

a picture tour

Brigitta and other tales

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Who wanted the crusades?

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

financial markets and the virtuality of values

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

Germinal

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

New Atlas, 1710

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

a picture tour

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a picture tour

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

I Ging

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

Travel around the World in 80 Days

a picture tour

of the MoneyMuseum

Wuthering Heights

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

Gotha numaria, 1730

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

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

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

a chart service for the investor

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Sonnets

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

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

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

a picture tour

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

The city

15 stories

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

Conversation Book

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

© Andreas Platthaus

Youth without God

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Harald Wessbecher

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

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 pictoure tour

Stopfkuchen.

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

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

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

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

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

Charles Baudelaire

- from the Vikings until today

a coin tour

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

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

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

by Dagmar Lorenz

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

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

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

... on justice and freedom of action

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

The sea wolf

a chart service for the investor

a video podcast

a coin-podcast

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

... and its consequences

of the MoneyMuseum

Bel-Ami

Mrs Jenny Treibel

a picture tour

a podcast of the year in 1527

By Katrin Schär

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

publiziert 1716

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Self-portrait

a coin tour

- Money in different Forms

Reminiscences

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

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

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

beautiful High Relief Coinage

by Ursula Kampmann

of Switzerland.

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

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

Stiller

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Radetzkymarsch

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

1816: The year without a Summer

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

... and its Relation to Money

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

The Forgers

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

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Physiognomic Fragments

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Sense and Sensibility

The Martian Chronicles

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

- Respectable and Trustworthy

by Marcus Junkelmann

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

a coin tour

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

a picture tour

a coin tour

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

The Decameron

Satyricon

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

- Islamic Money

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Animal Farm

Ideal and Reality

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

a picture tour

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Filmduration: 23 minutes

– the Birth of Tolerance

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Money defined in seven categories

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

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

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Oblomow

a video podcast