Articles on books of the MoneyMuseum.

They have fallen out of fashion - those old prayer books that accompanied the life of their owners just a few generations ago the way smartphones do today. Even though the word “selfie” was not yet known at the time, some prayer books were, in fact, used to immortalize the most important moments in their owners’ lives.

Throughout cultural history money was often associated with vice: gambling addiction, greed, fraud, vanity, hedonism. In his satirical novel, Thackeray brings these ideas to life.

Would you accept money from a generous donor if you knew it came from a criminal source? Maybe you’d have qualms about it – just like Pip, the protagonist in Dickens’ great novel.

Can you imagine a world where every human being has a specific place in the system assigned to one by God that one cannot and must not leave? In his book, Barthélemy de Chasseneuz describes such a rigid wold order. Even though he was anything but a compulsive person...

Even hard work is not always enough to make a living. In their fight for better wages, the coal miners in Zola’s novel go on strike – not without consequences…