Digging in the archive

by Carol Schwyzer

- Money in different Forms

a view from history

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

a picture tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

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

Germinal

Videoduration: 15 minutes

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

I Ging

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Aldous Huxley

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

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

visually explained

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

a picture tour

Youth without God

Filmduration: 7 minutes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

Filmduration: 52 minutes

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

AudioGuide Roman Republic

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

a coin podcast

a coin tour

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Old Goriot

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

Der Steppenwolf

Who wanted the crusades?

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

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

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

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Great Expectations

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

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

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

The Decameron

Collected Fairy Tales

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

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

a coin tour

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Travel around the World in 80 Days

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

A Christmas Carol

Short video on how to attain it

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

eine Bildertour

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

a video podcast

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

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

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

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

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

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

... on justice and freedom of action

a picture tour

a picture tour

The first opportunity to handle money …

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

Filmduration: 23 minutes

On Human Relations

Nero‘s Propaganda

- Islamic Money

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

ThurnierBuch, 1532

The medieval world order

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

a picture tour

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Meistererzählungen

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

By Katrin Schär

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

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

15 stories

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Stopfkuchen.

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

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

Introduction Roman Republic

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

by Lukas M. Schneider

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

a picture tour

The Scarlet Letter

a coin tour

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

Pride and Prejudice

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

a video podcast

Holland in the 17th century

- from the Vikings until today

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

a picture tour

two examples

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

The Martian Chronicles

Filmduration: 32 minutes

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

The sea wolf

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin-podcast

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

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

Change of Climate as trigger

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Self-portrait

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

in the money markets

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

A report from Ruanda

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Erewhon

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

by Herbert George Wells

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

- The Yen

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

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

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

Charles Baudelaire

The Idiot

Tewje, the Milkman

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

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

A short statement

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Oblomow

of the MoneyMuseum

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

Clarissa Harlowe

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

a coin tour

Fahrenheit 451

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

a picture tour

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Voltaire and Rousseau

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Robinson Crusoe

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

The Forgers

a picture tour

Treasure Island

Don Quixote

Features of the Human Face on Coins

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Four books on measurement

of the MoneyMuseum

New Atlas, 1710

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

... since when has money been in existence?

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

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

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

Reminiscences

Consolation of Philosophy

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

by Ursula Kampmann

Walden or Life in the Woods

a coin tour

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

Sonnets

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

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

of Switzerland.

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

Madame Bovary

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Table talk

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

publiziert 1716

a picture tour

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

5th Century B.C. Athens

Filmduration: 72 minutes

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

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

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

a picture tour

Sense and Sensibility

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

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

By Günter Hoffmann

by Dagmar Lorenz

Les Misérables

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

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

1816: The year without a Summer

The Great Gatsby

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

a chart service for the investor

The golden Age / Dream Days

in Classical Antiquity

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

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

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Canterbury Tales

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

a coin tour

Animal Farm

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Filmduration: 21 minutes

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Master Tales

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

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

Bel-Ami

a video podcast

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

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

a picture tour

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

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

The Beautiful and the Damned

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

a picture tour

Wuthering Heights

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

© Andreas Platthaus

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

Jane Eyre

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Brigitta and other tales

by Robert Schneebeli

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

Il Milione

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

Satyricon

Filmduration: 20 minutes

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

a pictoure tour

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

a video podcast

The poor man in Tockenburg

by Harald Wessbecher

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

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

Master Tales

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

Radetzkymarsch

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

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

Gotha numaria, 1730

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

a chart service for the investor

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a coin tour

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

Get an answer in 90 seconds

The city

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Physiognomic Fragments

for the investor

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

The Maltese Falcon

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

Ideal and Reality

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

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

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

Max Havelaar

Vanity Fair

J. R. R. Tolkien

Conversation Book

a picture tour

... and its consequences

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Collection MoneyMuseum

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Carmen

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

a coin tour

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

Stiller

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

- Respectable and Trustworthy

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

a coin tour

Money defined in seven categories

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

A successful concept for the investor

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

a coin tour

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

a coin tour

Effi Briest

by Peter Wolf

... and its Relation to Money

a coin tour

The Turn of the Screw

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

An analysis on social justice

Moby Dick

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Milan between 1412 and 1447

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

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

a coin tour

Meistererzählungen

Middlemarch

Published 1948