Digging in the archive

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

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Erewhon

a picture tour

Nero‘s Propaganda

Old Goriot

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

a coin tour

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

- from the Vikings until today

Change of Climate as trigger

15 stories

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

The Beautiful and the Damned

a coin tour

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

An analysis on social justice

a coin tour

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The sea wolf

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

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Effi Briest

a video podcast

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

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

Pride and Prejudice

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Published 1948

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

Four books on measurement

Filmduration: 7 minutes

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Der Besuch der alten Dame

a pictoure tour

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Filmduration: 23 minutes

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

New Atlas, 1710

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Clarissa Harlowe

Canterbury Tales

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

a video podcast

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Table talk

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.

beautiful High Relief Coinage

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

visually explained

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

of the MoneyMuseum

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

a coin tour

Middlemarch

On Human Relations

Brigitta and other tales

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Filmduration: 29 minutes

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

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.

a picture tour

A report from Ruanda

Filmduration: 72 minutes

eine Bildertour

a picture tour

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

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

Master Tales

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

a picture tour

by Dagmar Lorenz

a picture tour

Fahrenheit 451

Collected Fairy Tales

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Gotha numaria, 1730

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

a view from history

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a video podcast

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

a video podcast

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

two examples

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Collection MoneyMuseum

Money defined in seven categories

a coin podcast

Der Steppenwolf

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Robinson Crusoe

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

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

in Classical Antiquity

Filmduration: 20 minutes

© Andreas Platthaus

Reminiscences

by Herbert George Wells

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

The Maltese Falcon

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

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

- Money in different Forms

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

I Ging

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

by Carol Schwyzer

of the MoneyMuseum

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Voltaire and Rousseau

a coin tour

... on justice and freedom of action

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

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

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Filmduration: 52 minutes

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

1816: The year without a Summer

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

Master Tales

Who wanted the crusades?

a coin tour

Animal Farm

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Sense and Sensibility

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Aldous Huxley

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

... and its consequences

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

publiziert 1716

Holland in the 17th century

by Harald Wessbecher

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

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

a coin-podcast

Stiller

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

The Scarlet Letter

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

Il Milione

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

a picture tour

a coin tour

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The medieval world order

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

of the MoneyMuseum

- The Yen

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Meistererzählungen

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

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

a picture tour

Don Quixote

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

Introduction Roman Republic

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

Sonnets

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

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

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

a coin tour

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

The city

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Vanity Fair

- Respectable and Trustworthy

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

financial markets and the virtuality of values

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Get an answer in 90 seconds

The Idiot

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

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

a picture tour

Jane Eyre

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

a coin tour

Stopfkuchen.

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

Physiognomic Fragments

... since when has money been in existence?

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

Madame Bovary

Treasure Island

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

a coin tour

a coin tour

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

The Decameron

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

Bel-Ami

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

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

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Les Misérables

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

a coin tour

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

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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

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

... and its Relation to Money

for the investor

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

The Great Gatsby

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Moby Dick

AudioGuide Roman Republic

a coin tour

a picture tour

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

Germinal

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

in the money markets

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

Videoduration: 15 minutes

The poor man in Tockenburg

by Robert Schneebeli

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Oblomow

Self-portrait

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

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

Walden or Life in the Woods

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

A successful concept for the investor

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

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

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

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

a picture tour

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

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Max Havelaar

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

Great Expectations

By Katrin Schär

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

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

a chart service for the investor

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

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

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

a picture tour

The Martian Chronicles

Short video on how to attain it

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

a picture tour

By Günter Hoffmann

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

Consolation of Philosophy

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Satyricon

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

a coin tour

Charles Baudelaire

by Ursula Kampmann

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

A short statement

Tewje, the Milkman

by Lukas M. Schneider

The first opportunity to handle money …

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

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

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

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

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

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

of the MoneyMuseum

by Andreas Urs Sommer

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

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

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Meistererzählungen

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

a picture tour

of the MoneyMuseum

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

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

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

by Peter Wolf

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

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Youth without God

a coin tour

a picture tour

a picture tour

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

- Islamic Money

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Radetzkymarsch

Ideal and Reality

The Forgers

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Carmen

The Turn of the Screw

Milan between 1412 and 1447

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

5th Century B.C. Athens

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Conversation Book

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

of Switzerland.

Wuthering Heights

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

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

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

a chart service for the investor

A Christmas Carol