Digging in the archive

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

of the MoneyMuseum

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

two examples

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

a picture tour

a coin tour

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

a picture tour

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

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

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

a view from history

- The Yen

a picture tour

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Filmduration: 7 minutes

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

a coin tour

a coin tour

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

a coin tour

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

by Peter Wolf

a video podcast

a picture tour

in Classical Antiquity

by Dagmar Lorenz

a coin tour

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

a coin podcast

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

- Money in different Forms

Filmduration: 29 minutes

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

- from the Vikings until today

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Filmduration: 72 minutes

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

a picture tour

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

a coin-podcast

- Islamic Money

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

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

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

By Katrin Schär

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Filmduration: 32 minutes

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

a pictoure tour

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Holland in the 17th century

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

a video podcast

a picture tour

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

of Switzerland.

Filmduration: 21 minutes

a picture tour

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

by Robert Schneebeli

I Ging

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

... and its consequences

a video podcast

– the Birth of Tolerance

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

beautiful High Relief Coinage

a coin tour

a picture tour

a picture tour

a video podcast

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

a podcast of the year in 1527

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

a coin tour

by Lukas M. Schneider

15 stories

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

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

a coin tour

a picture tour

a picture tour

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

eine Bildertour

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

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

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

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

Nero‘s Propaganda

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

- Respectable and Trustworthy

visually explained

- the Basis for Everyday Money

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

a coin tour

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

a coin tour

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a coin tour

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

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

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

By Günter Hoffmann

a coin tour

a coin tour

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

a coin tour

by Marcus Junkelmann

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

5th Century B.C. Athens

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

Filmduration: 34 minutes

... since when has money been in existence?

a picture tour

a picture tour