Digging in the archive

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a video podcast

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

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

financial markets and the virtuality of values

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

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Oblomow

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

a video podcast

of the MoneyMuseum

The Great Gatsby

Sonnets

- The Yen

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

Videoduration: 15 minutes

a picture tour

a picture tour

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

A report from Ruanda

of the MoneyMuseum

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

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

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

a picture tour

two examples

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

in Classical Antiquity

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Change of Climate as trigger

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

by Carol Schwyzer

Sense and Sensibility

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

Gotha numaria, 1730

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Short video on how to attain it

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

by Robert Schneebeli

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

Collected Fairy Tales

Max Havelaar

a coin tour

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Walden or Life in the Woods

a coin tour

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

I Ging

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a coin tour

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

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

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

... on justice and freedom of action

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

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

a picture tour

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Jane Eyre

Canterbury Tales

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Robinson Crusoe

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

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Bel-Ami

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

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

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

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

by Andreas Urs Sommer

a coin tour

Youth without God

- from the Vikings until today

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

a chart service for the investor

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

Clarissa Harlowe

Collection MoneyMuseum

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

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

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

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

a picture tour

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Meistererzählungen

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.

Fahrenheit 451

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Table talk

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

The first opportunity to handle money …

a coin tour

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

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

ThurnierBuch, 1532

a pictoure tour

a picture tour

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Moby Dick

J. R. R. Tolkien

Consolation of Philosophy

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

a picture tour

a coin podcast

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Money defined in seven categories

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

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

The Idiot

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

a coin tour

a picture tour

The sea wolf

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

of Switzerland.

Master Tales

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

The Turn of the Screw

© Andreas Platthaus

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

a picture tour

a picture tour

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

The medieval world order

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

Don Quixote

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

by Herbert George Wells

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

Meistererzählungen

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

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Get an answer in 90 seconds

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

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

Thus spoke Zarathustra

The Forgers

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

a chart service for the investor

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

publiziert 1716

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

Introduction Roman Republic

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

The Decameron

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Brigitta and other tales

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

A successful concept for the investor

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

a coin tour

By Günter Hoffmann

in the money markets

Vanity Fair

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Great Expectations

New Atlas, 1710

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

... and its Relation to Money

Il Milione

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

The Beautiful and the Damned

Stopfkuchen.

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Der Steppenwolf

a video podcast

a coin tour

Treasure Island

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Pride and Prejudice

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

- Islamic Money

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Voltaire and Rousseau

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

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Filmduration: 32 minutes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

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

Who wanted the crusades?

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

Germinal

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

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

Wuthering Heights

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

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

Stiller

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

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

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

15 stories

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

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

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

a coin tour

eine Bildertour

a coin tour

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

a picture tour

1816: The year without a Summer

AudioGuide Roman Republic

a picture tour

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

a coin tour

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

Tewje, the Milkman

5th Century B.C. Athens

Effi Briest

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

Self-portrait

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

a picture tour

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.

The poor man in Tockenburg

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

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

The Scarlet Letter

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Published 1948

Conversation Book

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Charles Baudelaire

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

A Christmas Carol

a view from history

An analysis on social justice

... since when has money been in existence?

– the Birth of Tolerance

a coin-podcast

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

Holland in the 17th century

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

Radetzkymarsch

The Maltese Falcon

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Ideal and Reality

Aldous Huxley

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

of the MoneyMuseum

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

by Lukas M. Schneider

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

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

Middlemarch

a picture tour

... and its consequences

by Peter Wolf

Erewhon

Master Tales

Animal Farm

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Les Misérables

Reminiscences

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

- Respectable and Trustworthy

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

by Harald Wessbecher

By Katrin Schär

Satyricon

a coin tour

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

of the MoneyMuseum

a video podcast

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

The golden Age / Dream Days

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

- Money in different Forms

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Carmen

by Ursula Kampmann

a picture tour

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Physiognomic Fragments

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

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

visually explained

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

The city

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

Old Goriot

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

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

for the investor

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

of the MoneyMuseum

The Martian Chronicles

On Human Relations

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

Four books on measurement

A short statement

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

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

Madame Bovary

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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