archive of documents

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

The poor man in Tockenburg

Pride and Prejudice

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Table talk

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

Don Quixote

Vanity Fair

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

Erewhon

Wuthering Heights

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

a coin tour

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

Great Expectations

Master Tales

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Les Misérables

Holland in the 17th century

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

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

a coin tour

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

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

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

a chart service for the investor

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

A Christmas Carol

Ideal and Reality

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Canterbury Tales

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

Stiller

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

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

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

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

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Collection MoneyMuseum

Radetzkymarsch

New Atlas, 1710

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

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

by Harald Wessbecher

Tewje, the Milkman

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

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

Filmduration: 20 minutes

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Conversation Book

a coin tour

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Der Besuch der alten Dame

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

of the MoneyMuseum

The city

by Marcus Junkelmann

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

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

Change of Climate as trigger

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

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Max Havelaar

in Classical Antiquity

a picture tour

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

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

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

The Forgers

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

by Dagmar Lorenz

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

by Andreas Urs Sommer

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

of the MoneyMuseum

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Who wanted the crusades?

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

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

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

a coin tour

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

- Islamic Money

publiziert 1716

Youth without God

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Sonnets

Satyricon

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Moby Dick

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

Fahrenheit 451

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

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

a picture tour

The Idiot

a picture tour

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Money defined in seven categories

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

a coin-podcast

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

Consolation of Philosophy

Aldous Huxley

in the money markets

The first opportunity to handle money …

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

by Carol Schwyzer

Videoduration: 15 minutes

by Peter Wolf

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

a video podcast

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

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

a coin tour

a video podcast

- from the Vikings until today

The medieval world order

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Germinal

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

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

The Decameron

An analysis on social justice

a picture tour

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

of Switzerland.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

a picture tour

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

5th Century B.C. Athens

I Ging

Four books on measurement

... and its Relation to Money

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

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

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Filmduration: 34 minutes

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

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

Old Goriot

a picture tour

The Great Gatsby

A successful concept for the investor

Animal Farm

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Brigitta and other tales

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a video podcast

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

The Scarlet Letter

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Physiognomic Fragments

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

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

a picture tour

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

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

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

a picture tour

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

... since when has money been in existence?

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

Jane Eyre

a picture tour

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

a picture tour

The Beautiful and the Damned

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

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

Published 1948

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

... and its consequences

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

Effi Briest

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

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Filmduration: 7 minutes

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

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

for the investor

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

On Human Relations

Madame Bovary

two examples

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Charles Baudelaire

Filmduration: 21 minutes

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

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

a coin tour

by Robert Schneebeli

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

Voltaire and Rousseau

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

a picture tour

a coin podcast

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

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

a coin tour

visually explained

- Money in different Forms

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

... on justice and freedom of action

a picture tour

eine Bildertour

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Sense and Sensibility

1816: The year without a Summer

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

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.

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

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

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

The sea wolf

J. R. R. Tolkien

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Meistererzählungen

By Katrin Schär

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Robinson Crusoe

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

© Andreas Platthaus

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

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

a coin tour

by Lukas M. Schneider

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

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

Meistererzählungen

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

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

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

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

by Herbert George Wells

Carmen

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Treasure Island

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

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

Introduction Roman Republic

By Günter Hoffmann

The golden Age / Dream Days

Reminiscences

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

a coin tour

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

Master Tales

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Bel-Ami

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

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

a coin tour

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

a pictoure tour

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

of the MoneyMuseum

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

A short statement

by Ursula Kampmann

Gotha numaria, 1730

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

- The Yen

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

A report from Ruanda

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Der Steppenwolf

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

of the MoneyMuseum

The Maltese Falcon

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

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

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

Collected Fairy Tales

a video podcast

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Il Milione

Walden or Life in the Woods

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

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

The Turn of the Screw

Oblomow

Stopfkuchen.

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Filmduration: 29 minutes

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Self-portrait

Clarissa Harlowe

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

a picture tour

Filmduration: 39 minutes

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Middlemarch

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

15 stories

a coin tour

a picture tour

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

a coin tour

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

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Short video on how to attain it

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

The Martian Chronicles

a view from history

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

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

a picture tour