archive of documents

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Oblomow

Filmduration: 29 minutes

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

By Katrin Schär

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

by Harald Wessbecher

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Great Expectations

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

The Forgers

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

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

1816: The year without a Summer

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Ursula Kampmann

A report from Ruanda

Filmduration: 7 minutes

New Atlas, 1710

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

The city

Radetzkymarsch

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

a picture tour

Gotha numaria, 1730

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Videoduration: 15 minutes

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

Carmen

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

two examples

a video podcast

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

of the MoneyMuseum

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

The Great Gatsby

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

Physiognomic Fragments

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

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

Bel-Ami

by Lukas M. Schneider

a coin tour

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The sea wolf

Stiller

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

By Günter Hoffmann

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

Il Milione

Published 1948

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

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

a picture tour

a picture tour

... and its consequences

a coin tour

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

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Germinal

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

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

a chart service for the investor

- the Basis for Everyday Money

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Four books on measurement

Satyricon

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

visually explained

On Human Relations

a coin tour

The first opportunity to handle money …

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Short video on how to attain it

in the money markets

Treasure Island

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

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Filmduration: 21 minutes

by Peter Wolf

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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

The Scarlet Letter

by Robert Schneebeli

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Introduction Roman Republic

a coin podcast

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

Old Goriot

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

- The Yen

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Master Tales

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Animal Farm

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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

of the MoneyMuseum

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

... since when has money been in existence?

a picture tour

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

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

a picture tour

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Ideal and Reality

Who wanted the crusades?

a coin tour

Jane Eyre

a video podcast

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

by Marcus Junkelmann

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

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

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

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

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

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

Meistererzählungen

- Islamic Money

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

a video podcast

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

of the MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Madame Bovary

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

Der Steppenwolf

... and its Relation to Money

Charles Baudelaire

The Turn of the Screw

AudioGuide Roman Republic

a picture tour

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

publiziert 1716

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

by Herbert George Wells

a coin tour

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

Holland in the 17th century

Collection MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

Meistererzählungen

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

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

a picture tour

a view from history

a picture tour

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

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

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

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

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

beautiful High Relief Coinage

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

Vanity Fair

a coin tour

a coin tour

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

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

a chart service for the investor

Filmduration: 52 minutes

a coin tour

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

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

a coin tour

a coin tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

The Beautiful and the Damned

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

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

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

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Tewje, the Milkman

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

The Decameron

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

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Don Quixote

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

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

A short statement

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a coin tour

a coin tour

Walden or Life in the Woods

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Fahrenheit 451

of Switzerland.

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

Self-portrait

An analysis on social justice

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

a pictoure tour

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

15 stories

Travel around the World in 80 Days

in Classical Antiquity

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

The poor man in Tockenburg

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Les Misérables

by Dagmar Lorenz

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

Effi Briest

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Stopfkuchen.

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

a coin-podcast

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

Brigitta and other tales

Get an answer in 90 seconds

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Aldous Huxley

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Max Havelaar

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Erewhon

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Youth without God

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmduration: 23 minutes

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

The Idiot

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

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

Clarissa Harlowe

Mrs Jenny Treibel

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

Table talk

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The Martian Chronicles

- from the Vikings until today

Sense and Sensibility

Master Tales

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

A Christmas Carol

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

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

Money defined in seven categories

Collected Fairy Tales

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

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

Sonnets

for the investor

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

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

Middlemarch

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Robinson Crusoe

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

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

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

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

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.

Canterbury Tales

A successful concept for the investor

© Andreas Platthaus

- Money in different Forms

The medieval world order

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

a picture tour

The Maltese Falcon

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

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

Wuthering Heights

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

of the MoneyMuseum

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

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

a picture tour

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Voltaire and Rousseau

by Carol Schwyzer

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Change of Climate as trigger

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

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

- Respectable and Trustworthy

a picture tour

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Conversation Book

Reminiscences

a coin tour

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

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

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

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

I Ging

... on justice and freedom of action

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

a video podcast

Pride and Prejudice

a coin tour

Moby Dick

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Consolation of Philosophy

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

a picture tour

eine Bildertour