archive of documents

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

eine Bildertour

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

by Andreas Urs Sommer

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

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Filmduration: 20 minutes

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

Physiognomic Fragments

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Who wanted the crusades?

a picture tour

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

- The Yen

a coin tour

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Sonnets

a pictoure tour

a coin tour

a picture tour

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

The first opportunity to handle money …

for the investor

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

A Christmas Carol

ThurnierBuch, 1532

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

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

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Conversation Book

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Fahrenheit 451

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

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

a coin tour

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

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

Animal Farm

Master Tales

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

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

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

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

a picture tour

a picture tour

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Change of Climate as trigger

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

- Islamic Money

- Respectable and Trustworthy

a coin podcast

Vanity Fair

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Les Misérables

Meistererzählungen

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

A successful concept for the investor

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

Moby Dick

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

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

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Canterbury Tales

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Holland in the 17th century

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

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

New Atlas, 1710

Gotha numaria, 1730

On Human Relations

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Published 1948

of the MoneyMuseum

Youth without God

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

The Maltese Falcon

... and its Relation to Money

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

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

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Satyricon

Milan between 1412 and 1447

a video podcast

a video podcast

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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

a coin-podcast

in the money markets

a coin tour

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

© Andreas Platthaus

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

by Carol Schwyzer

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Short video on how to attain it

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Great Expectations

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

1816: The year without a Summer

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

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

By Katrin Schär

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

Consolation of Philosophy

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

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Get an answer in 90 seconds

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Stiller

of the MoneyMuseum

The Decameron

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

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

a coin tour

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

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

An analysis on social justice

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

a picture tour

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

a coin tour

Collection MoneyMuseum

- from the Vikings until today

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

visually explained

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Carmen

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

... on justice and freedom of action

Voltaire and Rousseau

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Pride and Prejudice

Filmduration: 39 minutes

a chart service for the investor

a coin tour

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

The Scarlet Letter

Il Milione

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

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Aldous Huxley

of the MoneyMuseum

A report from Ruanda

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

by Harald Wessbecher

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

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

The Beautiful and the Damned

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Stopfkuchen.

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

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

Sense and Sensibility

a picture tour

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

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

The Turn of the Screw

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

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

The Idiot

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

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

... and its consequences

Introduction Roman Republic

a coin tour

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

a picture tour

in Classical Antiquity

Wuthering Heights

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

Filmduration: 52 minutes

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Filmduration: 72 minutes

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Self-portrait

Brigitta and other tales

Charles Baudelaire

By Günter Hoffmann

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Germinal

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

by Peter Wolf

two examples

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Erewhon

Nero‘s Propaganda

The poor man in Tockenburg

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

15 stories

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

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

... since when has money been in existence?

of the MoneyMuseum

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

A short statement

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

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

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

Treasure Island

a picture tour

I Ging

Mrs Jenny Treibel

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

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Jane Eyre

Max Havelaar

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

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

Filmduration: 34 minutes

a view from history

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

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

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

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

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

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

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Walden or Life in the Woods

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

a picture tour

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

a picture tour

The golden Age / Dream Days

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

The Forgers

a picture tour

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

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

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

Reminiscences

Filmduration: 29 minutes

a coin tour

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

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

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

a podcast of the year in 1527

beautiful High Relief Coinage

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Effi Briest

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Oblomow

Bel-Ami

Meistererzählungen

Tewje, the Milkman

The sea wolf

The Great Gatsby

The city

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

financial markets and the virtuality of values

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

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Four books on measurement

Travel around the World in 80 Days

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

The medieval world order

a picture tour

Madame Bovary

by Ursula Kampmann

a coin tour

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

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

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Money defined in seven categories

by Robert Schneebeli

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

a picture tour

Robinson Crusoe

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

a chart service for the investor

Ideal and Reality

a picture tour

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

a video podcast

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

by Dagmar Lorenz

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

of Switzerland.

Middlemarch

- Money in different Forms

Der Steppenwolf

a picture tour

Collected Fairy Tales

The Martian Chronicles

a coin tour

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.

Master Tales

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

Table talk

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

Radetzkymarsch

a coin tour

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Old Goriot

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Don Quixote

publiziert 1716

a video podcast

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Clarissa Harlowe

by Herbert George Wells

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

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