archive of documents

a view from history

Filmduration: 29 minutes

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

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

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

by Peter Wolf

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Filmduration: 7 minutes

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

a coin tour

of Switzerland.

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

of the MoneyMuseum

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

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

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

Holland in the 17th century

a picture tour

a picture tour

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

visually explained

a coin tour

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

a picture tour

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

two examples

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

a video podcast

Milan between 1412 and 1447

a coin podcast

a coin tour

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Filmduration: 32 minutes

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a picture tour

By Katrin Schär

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

a coin tour

a picture tour

a picture tour

a coin tour

by Lukas M. Schneider

a coin tour

a coin tour

- Islamic Money

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

a picture tour

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

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

by Dagmar Lorenz

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

a picture tour

a coin tour

... since when has money been in existence?

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

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

I Ging

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

- The Yen

By Günter Hoffmann

in Classical Antiquity

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

a podcast of the year in 1527

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

a pictoure tour

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

– the Birth of Tolerance

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

a video podcast

15 stories

- Money in different Forms

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

eine Bildertour

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

a video podcast

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Nero‘s Propaganda

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

Filmduration: 34 minutes

by Robert Schneebeli

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

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

a coin tour

a coin tour

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

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

a picture tour

a coin tour

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

a coin tour

a picture tour

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

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a coin-podcast

a picture tour

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

a coin tour

Filmduration: 72 minutes

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

beautiful High Relief Coinage

- the Basis for Everyday Money

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

by Marcus Junkelmann

a video podcast

a coin tour

a picture tour

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

- Respectable and Trustworthy

... and its consequences

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

- from the Vikings until today

Features of the Human Face on Coins

a picture tour