Digging in the archive

Sense and Sensibility

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

by Ursula Kampmann

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

visually explained

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

- Respectable and Trustworthy

a coin tour

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

Great Expectations

a picture tour

of the MoneyMuseum

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

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

a coin tour

a picture tour

Table talk

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

a picture tour

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Il Milione

a picture tour

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

Introduction Roman Republic

Walden or Life in the Woods

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

in Classical Antiquity

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

by Dagmar Lorenz

Milan between 1412 and 1447

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

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

publiziert 1716

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

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

Stopfkuchen.

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

The sea wolf

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

by Harald Wessbecher

The Beautiful and the Damned

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

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

Collected Fairy Tales

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

Fahrenheit 451

Moby Dick

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

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

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

Reminiscences

two examples

Pride and Prejudice

a video podcast

5th Century B.C. Athens

– the Birth of Tolerance

Collection MoneyMuseum

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Old Goriot

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Thus spoke Zarathustra

of the MoneyMuseum

Don Quixote

a picture tour

AudioGuide Roman Republic

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

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

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

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

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

Jane Eyre

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

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Madame Bovary

The Great Gatsby

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

a coin tour

Ideal and Reality

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

Middlemarch

The Forgers

Money defined in seven categories

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

By Günter Hoffmann

© Andreas Platthaus

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

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

Meistererzählungen

I Ging

by Robert Schneebeli

a coin tour

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

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

The Martian Chronicles

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Youth without God

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Master Tales

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Tewje, the Milkman

The Turn of the Screw

Radetzkymarsch

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Satyricon

Nero‘s Propaganda

A report from Ruanda

a pictoure tour

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

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

Erewhon

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

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

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

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

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

An analysis on social justice

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

a coin tour

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

Stiller

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

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

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Filmduration: 52 minutes

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

a coin tour

15 stories

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

- The Yen

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

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

of Switzerland.

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Self-portrait

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Animal Farm

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

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

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

a picture tour

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Effi Briest

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

- Money in different Forms

The poor man in Tockenburg

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

The Decameron

New Atlas, 1710

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

a video podcast

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

By Katrin Schär

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Filmduration: 21 minutes

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Treasure Island

The city

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

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

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

Conversation Book

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Filmduration: 72 minutes

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

beautiful High Relief Coinage

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

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

The Idiot

in the money markets

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Published 1948

A successful concept for the investor

a picture tour

a coin tour

a chart service for the investor

a coin podcast

Wuthering Heights

a podcast of the year in 1527

Der Besuch der alten Dame

On Human Relations

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Max Havelaar

a video podcast

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Oblomow

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Robinson Crusoe

a coin tour

a coin tour

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Master Tales

Filmduration: 20 minutes

... and its Relation to Money

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

a picture tour

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Clarissa Harlowe

Meistererzählungen

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

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

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

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

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

... and its consequences

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

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

a picture tour

by Herbert George Wells

a view from history

Who wanted the crusades?

Holland in the 17th century

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

for the investor

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

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

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

Filmduration: 39 minutes

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Les Misérables

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

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

Gotha numaria, 1730

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Voltaire and Rousseau

a coin tour

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

- from the Vikings until today

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

of the MoneyMuseum

The Scarlet Letter

Charles Baudelaire

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Get an answer in 90 seconds

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

a picture tour

1816: The year without a Summer

... since when has money been in existence?

a picture tour

Germinal

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Sonnets

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

... on justice and freedom of action

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Bel-Ami

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

Carmen

A Christmas Carol

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

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

of the MoneyMuseum

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

a coin tour

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

eine Bildertour

a picture tour

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

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

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

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

a picture tour

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

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

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

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

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

ThurnierBuch, 1532

by Carol Schwyzer

a coin tour

Four books on measurement

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

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Der Steppenwolf

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

a coin tour

Aldous Huxley

of the MoneyMuseum

The medieval world order

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

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

a chart service for the investor

Brigitta and other tales

by Peter Wolf

J. R. R. Tolkien

Consolation of Philosophy

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

a video podcast

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Travel around the World in 80 Days

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Short video on how to attain it

Filmduration: 29 minutes

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Physiognomic Fragments

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Change of Climate as trigger

a coin tour

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

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

a coin tour

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

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Vanity Fair

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

- Islamic Money

Canterbury Tales

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

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

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

The first opportunity to handle money …

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

a picture tour

A short statement

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

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

a picture tour

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

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

AudioGuide Roman Republic

The Maltese Falcon

a coin-podcast