Digging in the archive

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

© Andreas Platthaus

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

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

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

The poor man in Tockenburg

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

a coin tour

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

Master Tales

... on justice and freedom of action

- from the Vikings until today

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

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

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

a podcast of the year in 1527

Wuthering Heights

Walden or Life in the Woods

Old Goriot

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

... since when has money been in existence?

Tewje, the Milkman

eine Bildertour

Money defined in seven categories

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Change of Climate as trigger

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

visually explained

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

of the MoneyMuseum

Germinal

Stopfkuchen.

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

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

Animal Farm

By Günter Hoffmann

Charles Baudelaire

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

Canterbury Tales

a coin-podcast

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

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

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

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

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

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Satyricon

... and its Relation to Money

a coin tour

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Bel-Ami

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

a picture tour

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Stiller

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Pride and Prejudice

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

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

Physiognomic Fragments

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

a coin tour

Nero‘s Propaganda

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The medieval world order

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

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

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

A Christmas Carol

The Martian Chronicles

On Human Relations

Il Milione

a picture tour

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

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

a video podcast

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

The Scarlet Letter

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

in Classical Antiquity

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Short video on how to attain it

two examples

a coin tour

Sonnets

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

The Idiot

a picture tour

a picture tour

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

Great Expectations

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Treasure Island

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

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

Filmduration: 52 minutes

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

of Switzerland.

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

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

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

The Maltese Falcon

a video podcast

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

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

publiziert 1716

Radetzkymarsch

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

of the MoneyMuseum

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

Holland in the 17th century

The sea wolf

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Master Tales

a coin podcast

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

by Ursula Kampmann

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

a video podcast

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

a picture tour

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

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

Effi Briest

a pictoure tour

a coin tour

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

a picture tour

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

Conversation Book

in the money markets

Robinson Crusoe

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

a chart service for the investor

Erewhon

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

A report from Ruanda

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

15 stories

by Herbert George Wells

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Collection MoneyMuseum

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

a view from history

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

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

Carmen

Vanity Fair

of the MoneyMuseum

- Islamic Money

by Robert Schneebeli

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

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Voltaire and Rousseau

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

- the Basis for Everyday Money

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

Introduction Roman Republic

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

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

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

a coin tour

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

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Who wanted the crusades?

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

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

of the MoneyMuseum

1816: The year without a Summer

The Forgers

A successful concept for the investor

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

a picture tour

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Max Havelaar

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

by Harald Wessbecher

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

The Great Gatsby

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

Reminiscences

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

- The Yen

Published 1948

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

New Atlas, 1710

J. R. R. Tolkien

a picture tour

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Filmduration: 21 minutes

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Jane Eyre

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Les Misérables

Clarissa Harlowe

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Madame Bovary

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

The first opportunity to handle money …

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

a coin tour

Brigitta and other tales

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Videoduration: 15 minutes

by Carol Schwyzer

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

of the MoneyMuseum

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Oblomow

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

- Money in different Forms

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

a picture tour

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

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

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

for the investor

by Lukas M. Schneider

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

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

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

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Table talk

a coin tour

Meistererzählungen

... and its consequences

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

A short statement

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

Thus spoke Zarathustra

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

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

a picture tour

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

The golden Age / Dream Days

a coin tour

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

I Ging

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Sense and Sensibility

a coin tour

Aldous Huxley

a coin tour

By Katrin Schär

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Dagmar Lorenz

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Youth without God

Consolation of Philosophy

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

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

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

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Ideal and Reality

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

a picture tour

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

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

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

Fahrenheit 451

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Self-portrait

The city

a coin tour

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

a video podcast

The Decameron

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Meistererzählungen

Don Quixote

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

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

a coin tour

Moby Dick

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

The Beautiful and the Damned

Filmduration: 23 minutes

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

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Gotha numaria, 1730

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

a picture tour

An analysis on social justice

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

The Turn of the Screw

by Peter Wolf

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Four books on measurement

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

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Collected Fairy Tales

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Middlemarch

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

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

a coin tour

Der Steppenwolf

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

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

a chart service for the investor

Filmduration: 32 minutes

a picture tour