Digging in the archive

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

ThurnierBuch, 1532

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

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

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Filmduration: 29 minutes

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

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

a picture tour

1816: The year without a Summer

Charles Baudelaire

Milan between 1412 and 1447

by Peter Wolf

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

New Atlas, 1710

... since when has money been in existence?

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Sonnets

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Published 1948

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Old Goriot

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

of the MoneyMuseum

by Dagmar Lorenz

Sense and Sensibility

Consolation of Philosophy

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

Reminiscences

Max Havelaar

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

a chart service for the investor

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Physiognomic Fragments

a video podcast

Bel-Ami

Meistererzählungen

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

a picture tour

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

beautiful High Relief Coinage

By Katrin Schär

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

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Pride and Prejudice

a video podcast

a coin tour

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

a coin tour

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

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

a picture tour

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

Introduction Roman Republic

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

a coin tour

Brigitta and other tales

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

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

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Effi Briest

financial markets and the virtuality of values

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Four books on measurement

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

a picture tour

Money defined in seven categories

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Germinal

- the Basis for Everyday Money

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Il Milione

Erewhon

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

Stiller

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

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

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

by Robert Schneebeli

Satyricon

Les Misérables

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

Who wanted the crusades?

The city

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Table talk

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Filmduration: 52 minutes

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

The Forgers

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

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

I Ging

Jane Eyre

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

Videoduration: 15 minutes

in Classical Antiquity

a coin tour

Radetzkymarsch

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Carmen

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

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

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

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

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

The Martian Chronicles

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Animal Farm

The golden Age / Dream Days

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Canterbury Tales

A Christmas Carol

... on justice and freedom of action

Voltaire and Rousseau

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

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

The Scarlet Letter

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

a coin-podcast

Holland in the 17th century

a picture tour

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

Clarissa Harlowe

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Change of Climate as trigger

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

a picture tour

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

for the investor

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

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

a coin tour

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

© Andreas Platthaus

two examples

Walden or Life in the Woods

of the MoneyMuseum

Moby Dick

Master Tales

a coin tour

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Self-portrait

in the money markets

The first opportunity to handle money …

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

Filmduration: 39 minutes

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

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

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

by Andreas Urs Sommer

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

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

Middlemarch

- from the Vikings until today

Stopfkuchen.

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Don Quixote

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

The Turn of the Screw

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

a picture tour

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

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

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

15 stories

by Herbert George Wells

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

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

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

... and its Relation to Money

The Maltese Falcon

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Fahrenheit 451

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

Filmduration: 20 minutes

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

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

of the MoneyMuseum

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Mrs Jenny Treibel

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

a coin tour

- Islamic Money

The Decameron

Tewje, the Milkman

a coin tour

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

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

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

Wuthering Heights

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

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

a coin tour

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

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

Oblomow

a video podcast

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Vanity Fair

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

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Travel around the World in 80 Days

a chart service for the investor

Collected Fairy Tales

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Der Besuch der alten Dame

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

Collection MoneyMuseum

a coin podcast

a picture tour

On Human Relations

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

a coin tour

by Harald Wessbecher

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

by Marcus Junkelmann

Master Tales

Youth without God

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

... and its consequences

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

a coin tour

Filmduration: 72 minutes

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Gotha numaria, 1730

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Aldous Huxley

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

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

Conversation Book

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

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

Der Steppenwolf

visually explained

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

The Great Gatsby

by Carol Schwyzer

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

Robinson Crusoe

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

The sea wolf

by Lukas M. Schneider

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

Meistererzählungen

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

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

a coin tour

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

An analysis on social justice

Ideal and Reality

publiziert 1716

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

a picture tour

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

Get an answer in 90 seconds

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

a video podcast

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Treasure Island

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

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

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

eine Bildertour

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

- Money in different Forms

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

a coin tour

- The Yen

a view from history

a picture tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

The Beautiful and the Damned

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

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

Madame Bovary

a picture tour

The Idiot

of Switzerland.

a picture tour

By Günter Hoffmann

of the MoneyMuseum

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Great Expectations

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a pictoure tour

A report from Ruanda

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

a coin tour

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

The poor man in Tockenburg

a picture tour

A short statement

Filmduration: 34 minutes

by Ursula Kampmann

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

of the MoneyMuseum

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

a picture tour

A successful concept for the investor

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

a picture tour

a coin tour

Short video on how to attain it

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

The medieval world order