Digging in the archive

Self-portrait

a coin tour

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

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

of the MoneyMuseum

a video podcast

The golden Age / Dream Days

a picture tour

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Filmduration: 29 minutes

- from the Vikings until today

Change of Climate as trigger

a coin tour

Effi Briest

A successful concept for the investor

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

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

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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

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

Walden or Life in the Woods

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

a chart service for the investor

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

a pictoure tour

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

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

- The Yen

by Harald Wessbecher

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

by Ursula Kampmann

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

by Robert Schneebeli

Get an answer in 90 seconds

by Herbert George Wells

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

for the investor

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

of the MoneyMuseum

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

a coin tour

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

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

Les Misérables

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Germinal

- Money in different Forms

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

Money defined in seven categories

Great Expectations

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Brigitta and other tales

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

The Scarlet Letter

a coin tour

by Lukas M. Schneider

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

a video podcast

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

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

By Katrin Schär

Tewje, the Milkman

Robinson Crusoe

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

Meistererzählungen

Short video on how to attain it

a picture tour

Sense and Sensibility

a picture tour

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

The Beautiful and the Damned

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

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

New Atlas, 1710

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

Who wanted the crusades?

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

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

On Human Relations

The Decameron

Collected Fairy Tales

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

a video podcast

Conversation Book

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

A Christmas Carol

Carmen

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

of Switzerland.

Old Goriot

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

The city

Physiognomic Fragments

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

a view from history

a coin podcast

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

visually explained

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

The Martian Chronicles

Filmduration: 20 minutes

... and its Relation to Money

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Filmduration: 52 minutes

a coin tour

a video podcast

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Max Havelaar

a picture tour

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Master Tales

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Four books on measurement

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

The poor man in Tockenburg

a coin tour

Canterbury Tales

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

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

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

a picture tour

beautiful High Relief Coinage

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

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

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

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Moby Dick

of the MoneyMuseum

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

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

- Islamic Money

Clarissa Harlowe

a coin tour

- the Basis for Everyday Money

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

by Peter Wolf

Bel-Ami

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Middlemarch

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

- Respectable and Trustworthy

By Günter Hoffmann

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

financial markets and the virtuality of values

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

a picture tour

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

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

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Videoduration: 15 minutes

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

publiziert 1716

a picture tour

a coin-podcast

a coin tour

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

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Madame Bovary

Don Quixote

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Wuthering Heights

by Marcus Junkelmann

Satyricon

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

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

Il Milione

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

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

The Forgers

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a picture tour

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

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

a coin tour

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

in the money markets

in Classical Antiquity

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

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Eyre

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

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

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

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

Fahrenheit 451

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

1816: The year without a Summer

Nero‘s Propaganda

Master Tales

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

a picture tour

The Turn of the Screw

of the MoneyMuseum

... since when has money been in existence?

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Stiller

Voltaire and Rousseau

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Sonnets

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

An analysis on social justice

Charles Baudelaire

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Gotha numaria, 1730

Stopfkuchen.

by Carol Schwyzer

Vanity Fair

a picture tour

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

Treasure Island

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Table talk

ThurnierBuch, 1532

eine Bildertour

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.

Reminiscences

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

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

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

Ideal and Reality

Collection MoneyMuseum

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

by Dagmar Lorenz

"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.

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

Oblomow

a coin tour

a picture tour

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

a picture tour

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

... and its consequences

© Andreas Platthaus

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

Erewhon

15 stories

Travel around the World in 80 Days

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

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

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a picture tour

Filmduration: 21 minutes

AudioGuide Roman Republic

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a coin tour

Holland in the 17th century

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

A report from Ruanda

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

– the Birth of Tolerance

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Youth without God

... on justice and freedom of action

Published 1948

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

a coin tour

Aldous Huxley

A short statement

a coin tour

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

Consolation of Philosophy

The Great Gatsby

of the MoneyMuseum

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

a picture tour

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

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

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

The Maltese Falcon

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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

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

a picture tour

Animal Farm

Introduction Roman Republic

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

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

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

two examples

The Idiot

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

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The sea wolf

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

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

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Der Steppenwolf

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

a coin tour

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

I Ging

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

The first opportunity to handle money …

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

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

a chart service for the investor

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The medieval world order

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

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Meistererzählungen

Radetzkymarsch

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany