Digging in the archive

The city

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a picture tour

On Human Relations

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

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

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

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

Thus spoke Zarathustra

5th Century B.C. Athens

Reminiscences

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

- the Basis for Everyday Money

of the MoneyMuseum

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

a coin tour

Who wanted the crusades?

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

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Pride and Prejudice

The Decameron

by Marcus Junkelmann

a podcast of the year in 1527

a picture tour

two examples

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

Short video on how to attain it

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

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

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

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

Self-portrait

Satyricon

Moby Dick

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Fahrenheit 451

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

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

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

in Classical Antiquity

Les Misérables

Money defined in seven categories

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Il Milione

Mrs Jenny Treibel

a picture tour

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

Max Havelaar

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

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Wuthering Heights

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

By Katrin Schär

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

The first opportunity to handle money …

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

Four books on measurement

Robinson Crusoe

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

a coin tour

a coin tour

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

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

Meistererzählungen

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

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

by Dagmar Lorenz

Bel-Ami

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

a picture tour

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Great Expectations

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

eine Bildertour

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

by Lukas M. Schneider

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

... on justice and freedom of action

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Filmduration: 34 minutes

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Carmen

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

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

a picture tour

New Atlas, 1710

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Der Steppenwolf

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

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

a coin tour

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

for the investor

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

a coin-podcast

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

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Table talk

Ideal and Reality

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

a coin tour

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

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

A successful concept for the investor

Stopfkuchen.

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

Youth without God

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Consolation of Philosophy

Travel around the World in 80 Days

By Günter Hoffmann

a coin podcast

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

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Change of Climate as trigger

Brigitta and other tales

a pictoure tour

of the MoneyMuseum

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The medieval world order

a video podcast

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

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

a picture tour

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

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

The poor man in Tockenburg

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

The Great Gatsby

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

1816: The year without a Summer

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

The Maltese Falcon

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

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

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

... and its Relation to Money

a coin tour

Treasure Island

a picture tour

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

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

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

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

a coin tour

Gotha numaria, 1730

financial markets and the virtuality of values

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Meistererzählungen

a coin tour

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

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

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

J. R. R. Tolkien

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Physiognomic Fragments

Don Quixote

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

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

The Turn of the Screw

The Idiot

Published 1948

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

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

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

a chart service for the investor

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

The sea wolf

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

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

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

a picture tour

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

... and its consequences

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

Der Besuch der alten Dame

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

ThurnierBuch, 1532

a view from history

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Erewhon

The golden Age / Dream Days

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

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Canterbury Tales

Animal Farm

Radetzkymarsch

a picture tour

The Scarlet Letter

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Filmduration: 7 minutes

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

a picture tour

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

of the MoneyMuseum

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Effi Briest

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

A Christmas Carol

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

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

The Forgers

Voltaire and Rousseau

publiziert 1716

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

The Beautiful and the Damned

Filmduration: 32 minutes

beautiful High Relief Coinage

AudioGuide Roman Republic

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

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

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

by Peter Wolf

of Switzerland.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Sense and Sensibility

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

Walden or Life in the Woods

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

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

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

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

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

of the MoneyMuseum

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

a picture tour

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

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

in the money markets

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

a coin tour

Collected Fairy Tales

a coin tour

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

by Andreas Urs Sommer

by Herbert George Wells

a coin tour

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

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

Aldous Huxley

a picture tour

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a coin tour

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

15 stories

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

Madame Bovary

Germinal

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Sonnets

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Tewje, the Milkman

a picture tour

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Conversation Book

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Collection MoneyMuseum

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

- The Yen

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

Videoduration: 15 minutes

A short statement

© Andreas Platthaus

- Money in different Forms

Clarissa Harlowe

Nero‘s Propaganda

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Master Tales

by Ursula Kampmann

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

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

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

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

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

by Robert Schneebeli

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

visually explained

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

by Carol Schwyzer

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

Holland in the 17th century

The Martian Chronicles

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

An analysis on social justice

Old Goriot

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

I Ging

of the MoneyMuseum

by Harald Wessbecher

a coin tour

Middlemarch

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Jane Eyre

Stiller

a picture tour

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

a video podcast

Oblomow

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

a video podcast

a video podcast

Introduction Roman Republic

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Master Tales

- from the Vikings until today

A report from Ruanda

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

a coin tour

- Islamic Money

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Charles Baudelaire

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

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

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

... since when has money been in existence?

Vanity Fair

a chart service for the investor