Digging in the archive

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

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

a picture tour

Max Havelaar

Who wanted the crusades?

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

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

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

Reminiscences

of Switzerland.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Carol Schwyzer

a coin tour

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

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

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

Clarissa Harlowe

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

of the MoneyMuseum

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

The Martian Chronicles

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

The Turn of the Screw

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

visually explained

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

The Maltese Falcon

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

... and its Relation to Money

Travel around the World in 80 Days

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

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

of the MoneyMuseum

of the MoneyMuseum

Stiller

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

a coin tour

Table talk

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

Published 1948

a podcast of the year in 1527

- Respectable and Trustworthy

The city

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

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

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Conversation Book

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

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

Canterbury Tales

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Effi Briest

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Moby Dick

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

A report from Ruanda

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Sense and Sensibility

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

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

a video podcast

of the MoneyMuseum

Stopfkuchen.

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

by Herbert George Wells

a video podcast

in the money markets

Jane Eyre

by Harald Wessbecher

a coin-podcast

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Der Steppenwolf

15 stories

Collection MoneyMuseum

a video podcast

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Filmduration: 23 minutes

a coin tour

a coin tour

Il Milione

Pride and Prejudice

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Sonnets

Nero‘s Propaganda

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

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

a coin tour

Germinal

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

publiziert 1716

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

by Robert Schneebeli

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

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

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

... since when has money been in existence?

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Bel-Ami

eine Bildertour

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

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

Walden or Life in the Woods

a picture tour

Master Tales

two examples

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

a chart service for the investor

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

of the MoneyMuseum

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

© Andreas Platthaus

A Christmas Carol

a video podcast

a picture tour

ThurnierBuch, 1532

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

a coin tour

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

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

a chart service for the investor

Voltaire and Rousseau

J. R. R. Tolkien

Carmen

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

a picture tour

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

a picture tour

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

Radetzkymarsch

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The golden Age / Dream Days

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

The Forgers

The Beautiful and the Damned

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

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

Videoduration: 15 minutes

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

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

a coin tour

An analysis on social justice

a coin tour

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

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

Master Tales

On Human Relations

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

by Peter Wolf

A successful concept for the investor

a coin tour

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Holland in the 17th century

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

Fahrenheit 451

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

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Old Goriot

a picture tour

Filmduration: 7 minutes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

a picture tour

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

a coin tour

Youth without God

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

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Get an answer in 90 seconds

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

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Treasure Island

a coin tour

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

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

by Ursula Kampmann

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

The first opportunity to handle money …

a picture tour

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

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

a picture tour

Ideal and Reality

Wuthering Heights

Oblomow

The poor man in Tockenburg

Mrs Jenny Treibel

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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

1816: The year without a Summer

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

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

By Katrin Schär

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

– the Birth of Tolerance

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Middlemarch

Introduction Roman Republic

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Short video on how to attain it

Madame Bovary

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

- The Yen

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

a coin tour

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a picture tour

Money defined in seven categories

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

Vanity Fair

- the Basis for Everyday Money

a picture tour

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

... and its consequences

Self-portrait

By Günter Hoffmann

a picture tour

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

The Decameron

Animal Farm

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

a coin tour

Change of Climate as trigger

Robinson Crusoe

- Islamic Money

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

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Great Expectations

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

a coin tour

The Scarlet Letter

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Lukas M. Schneider

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

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

Les Misérables

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Don Quixote

financial markets and the virtuality of values

a coin podcast

Aldous Huxley

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

Erewhon

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

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

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

Filmduration: 20 minutes

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Tewje, the Milkman

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

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

– 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.

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Gotha numaria, 1730

... on justice and freedom of action

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

for the investor

AudioGuide Roman Republic

by Marcus Junkelmann

in Classical Antiquity

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

I Ging

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

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

- Money in different Forms

- from the Vikings until today

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

Brigitta and other tales

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

beautiful High Relief Coinage

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

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

A short statement

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

a pictoure tour

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

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

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

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

Collected Fairy Tales

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

Satyricon

a view from history

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

a picture tour

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Meistererzählungen

Consolation of Philosophy

Charles Baudelaire

a picture tour

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

a coin tour

The Idiot

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

The Great Gatsby

Physiognomic Fragments

New Atlas, 1710

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Meistererzählungen

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

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

a picture tour

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Four books on measurement

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Filmduration: 52 minutes

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

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

The sea wolf

The medieval world order

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France