Digging in the archive

1816: The year without a Summer

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

by Lukas M. Schneider

by Peter Wolf

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

by Harald Wessbecher

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Gotha numaria, 1730

a video podcast

of Switzerland.

a coin tour

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

Filmduration: 34 minutes

15 stories

Madame Bovary

The first opportunity to handle money …

... on justice and freedom of action

a video podcast

a chart service for the investor

The Great Gatsby

Published 1948

Effi Briest

Filmduration: 52 minutes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Germinal

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

- Respectable and Trustworthy

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

Sonnets

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

Carmen

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

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

a pictoure tour

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

a coin tour

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

Youth without God

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Sense and Sensibility

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

a view from history

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

by Robert Schneebeli

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

On Human Relations

The Beautiful and the Damned

Radetzkymarsch

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

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

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

Stopfkuchen.

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

Moby Dick

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

An analysis on social justice

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

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

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

Oblomow

beautiful High Relief Coinage

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

by Carol Schwyzer

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

a chart service for the investor

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

Don Quixote

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Stiller

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

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

New Atlas, 1710

Self-portrait

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

The Decameron

ThurnierBuch, 1532

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

a picture tour

Introduction Roman Republic

a video podcast

a coin tour

Tewje, the Milkman

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Erewhon

a coin tour

- from the Vikings until today

Physiognomic Fragments

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Der Besuch der alten Dame

The medieval world order

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Conversation Book

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

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

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

a coin tour

Brigitta and other tales

Robinson Crusoe

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a picture tour

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

a picture tour

eine Bildertour

for the investor

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

Jane Eyre

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

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

A successful concept for the investor

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

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

AudioGuide Roman Republic

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

a picture tour

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Four books on measurement

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Collected Fairy Tales

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

by Herbert George Wells

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

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

of the MoneyMuseum

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

Ideal and Reality

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

The Scarlet Letter

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

in Classical Antiquity

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

a picture tour

Der Steppenwolf

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

... and its consequences

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

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

... and its Relation to Money

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

by Ursula Kampmann

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

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

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

The city

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Short video on how to attain it

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

a picture tour

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Collection MoneyMuseum

Change of Climate as trigger

Table talk

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Consolation of Philosophy

Clarissa Harlowe

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

a coin tour

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Great Expectations

Reminiscences

Canterbury Tales

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

a picture tour

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

a picture tour

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

a coin tour

Filmduration: 29 minutes

a picture tour

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

a coin podcast

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

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

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

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

Wuthering Heights

a coin tour

a coin tour

A report from Ruanda

By Katrin Schär

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

A short statement

Master Tales

of the MoneyMuseum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Thus spoke Zarathustra

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

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

Voltaire and Rousseau

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

a coin tour

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

Holland in the 17th century

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Satyricon

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Aldous Huxley

a picture tour

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Who wanted the crusades?

... since when has money been in existence?

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

a picture tour

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

- Islamic Money

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

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

a coin tour

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

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

The Idiot

a coin tour

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

Animal Farm

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

publiziert 1716

by Andreas Urs Sommer

a picture tour

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Money defined in seven categories

Les Misérables

The golden Age / Dream Days

two examples

Treasure Island

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

The Forgers

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

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Vanity Fair

a picture tour

© Andreas Platthaus

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

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

Middlemarch

The Martian Chronicles

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

in the money markets

a coin tour

visually explained

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

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Filmduration: 23 minutes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Old Goriot

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

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

Fahrenheit 451

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

- Money in different Forms

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

Travel around the World in 80 Days

a coin-podcast

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

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Max Havelaar

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

Meistererzählungen

a coin tour

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

The sea wolf

Il Milione

a podcast of the year in 1527

The Maltese Falcon

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

By Günter Hoffmann

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

Master Tales

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

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

A Christmas Carol

Charles Baudelaire

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

of the MoneyMuseum

Pride and Prejudice

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

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

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

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

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

Meistererzählungen

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

by Dagmar Lorenz

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Filmduration: 21 minutes

- The Yen

of the MoneyMuseum

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

Bel-Ami

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

I Ging

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a video podcast

a picture tour

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Walden or Life in the Woods

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Nero‘s Propaganda

The Turn of the Screw

AudioGuide Roman Republic

The poor man in Tockenburg