Digging in the archive

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

Effi Briest

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

a coin tour

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

by Harald Wessbecher

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Stopfkuchen.

a chart service for the investor

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Animal Farm

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a view from history

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

... and its Relation to Money

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Consolation of Philosophy

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Milan between 1412 and 1447

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Ideal and Reality

© Andreas Platthaus

Madame Bovary

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

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

... and its consequences

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

in Classical Antiquity

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

a coin tour

of the MoneyMuseum

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Master Tales

AudioGuide Roman Republic

by Andreas Urs Sommer

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

of the MoneyMuseum

The Martian Chronicles

- Money in different Forms

a coin tour

The Scarlet Letter

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Filmduration: 34 minutes

– the Birth of Tolerance

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

New Atlas, 1710

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

- Respectable and Trustworthy

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Holland in the 17th century

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

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

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Great Expectations

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

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

by Herbert George Wells

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Wuthering Heights

a coin tour

... since when has money been in existence?

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

Voltaire and Rousseau

a picture tour

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

visually explained

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

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

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

By Günter Hoffmann

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

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

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

a coin tour

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

Self-portrait

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

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

Germinal

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

Clarissa Harlowe

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

- from the Vikings until today

a pictoure tour

Table talk

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

Canterbury Tales

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

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Pride and Prejudice

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Short video on how to attain it

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

a picture tour

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Four books on measurement

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

a picture tour

Physiognomic Fragments

Moby Dick

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Filmduration: 52 minutes

a video podcast

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

a picture tour

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Treasure Island

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

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

On Human Relations

by Lukas M. Schneider

A successful concept for the investor

Carmen

a video podcast

Tewje, the Milkman

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

Mrs Jenny Treibel

a coin tour

Charles Baudelaire

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

by Ursula Kampmann

The city

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

Der Steppenwolf

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

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

a coin tour

financial markets and the virtuality of values

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

The Turn of the Screw

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

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

Don Quixote

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

Money defined in seven categories

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

The Great Gatsby

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

Conversation Book

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

The Maltese Falcon

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

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

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

By Katrin Schär

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

Reminiscences

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

for the investor

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

A Christmas Carol

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Il Milione

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

- the Basis for Everyday Money

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

in the money markets

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

of the MoneyMuseum

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Meistererzählungen

a picture tour

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Collection MoneyMuseum

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

of Switzerland.

Collected Fairy Tales

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

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

a coin tour

a coin podcast

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

a picture tour

by Robert Schneebeli

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

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Max Havelaar

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

Erewhon

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

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

a picture tour

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Radetzkymarsch

I Ging

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

ThurnierBuch, 1532

a podcast of the year in 1527

A report from Ruanda

- The Yen

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Sonnets

An analysis on social justice

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Meistererzählungen

a picture tour

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Vanity Fair

a picture tour

publiziert 1716

Jane Eyre

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

by Carol Schwyzer

AudioGuide Roman Republic

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Old Goriot

The Beautiful and the Damned

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

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

a 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.

The medieval world order

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

by Dagmar Lorenz

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

a picture tour

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

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Bel-Ami

Oblomow

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Aldous Huxley

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

The sea wolf

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

a coin tour

a chart service for the investor

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Sense and Sensibility

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Master Tales

Youth without God

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Walden or Life in the Woods

eine Bildertour

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Middlemarch

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

two examples

by Peter Wolf

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

15 stories

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Fahrenheit 451

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

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

a picture tour

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

a picture tour

Stiller

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

The Decameron

Robinson Crusoe

a coin tour

Brigitta and other tales

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

... on justice and freedom of action

a coin tour

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

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

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

a coin tour

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

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

a coin-podcast

The Idiot

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

Who wanted the crusades?

Les Misérables

Published 1948

The first opportunity to handle money …

Gotha numaria, 1730

Nero‘s Propaganda

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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

a video podcast

Change of Climate as trigger

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

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

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

A short statement

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

Satyricon

a picture tour

1816: The year without a Summer

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Introduction Roman Republic

The poor man in Tockenburg

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

a picture tour

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

Der Besuch der alten Dame

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

The Forgers

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

a coin tour

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

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

a coin tour

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

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

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

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

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

- Islamic Money

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

of the MoneyMuseum

a video podcast