Stefan Krmnicek

Excited to announce that the upcoming VR exhibition "Apostle Paul and Money" will formally open on 29 June at the University Museum in Tübingen. You are warmly invited to join us! #Museum #VirtualReality #digitalhumanities #numismatics #archaeology #Bible #archaeology #history

Today, Emanuel Mayer (National University of Singapore) presented us a fascinating paper on "Coinage, Political Economy, and Commerce in the Early Empire". Many thanks to Emanuel and to the students for the great discussion! #numismatics #archaeology

🎬Thrilled to share the promotional video for our upcoming VR exhibition "Apostle Paul and Money," opening formally on 29 June at the University Museum in Tübingen. Many thanks to Luca Dreiling for producing the video. #numismatics #VirtualReality #Museum

"Teen discovers first ancient Greek artifact found in Berlin" - to learn more about the phenomenon of Greek bronze coins found in the north-western Roman provinces (and beyond) see Holger Komnick's paper in the edited volume Money Matters (2019). p.dw.com/p/5CNy9?at_med…

🍺Vienna beer-price archaeology🍺 I played around with historical wage and cost data. Looks like we may be back in the same ballpark as around 1900 when it comes to wages vs. beer prices. Sources: geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at/Kaufkraftrechn… finanzbildung.oenb.at/docroot/waehru… #archaeology #numismatics #Economy

The University Museum's "Treasure of the Month" for May is a Fortuna-type denarius. In my contribution, I connect the museum's coin with the story of a Fortuna as found at the bottom of the mast-step of the Blackfriars ship, interpreted as luck deposit. unimuseum.uni-tuebingen.de/de/infos/news/…

Today was an exciting day: Barbara Löbl (University of Vienna) delivered an inspiring guest lecture on “Coins as an Information System: Cognition, Culture, Evolution,” followed by the seminar with Ancient Near Eastern Philology where we made our own cuneiform tablets.

It was a pleasure to introduce a group of highly motivated students to ancient numismatics in the seminar "Following Hadrian – Unterwegs mit einem Kaiser," held by my colleague Stefanie Schmidt from the Ancient History Department.

Today, our conservator Inga Vollmer-Bardelli gave a great introduction to conservation methods for medals to the students in my museology seminar. Many thanks, Inga! #numismatics

I am excited to be co-teaching a seminar this semester on the origins of money with my colleague Wiebke Meinhold from Ancient Near Eastern Philology. A fascinating topic to explore with students through an interdisciplinary approach.🤑💸💰🪙💳💱

It has been a pleasure presenting a paper about #VR and #Numismatics at the Società Napoletana Storia Patria. Thank you for the kind invitation!

Excited to be presenting our VR exhibits today at #FiesoleRetreat26 : "Immerse in Your Collections: Virtual Reality Case Studies from GLAM Institutions Using the ExPresS XR Framework" #VR #digitalhumanities #numismatics

Our SFB 1391 #VR #exhibition on #coin use in Herod’s Temple is again on view at the Bibelhaus ErlebnisMuseum #Frankfurt as a special exhibition, from 10 March to 24 May 2026. bibelhaus-frankfurt.de

It was a pleasure to present the upcoming VR exhibit to the director of the Coin Cabinet at the Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum. The exhibit is set to open in Tübingen in June 2026. Stay tuned for updates! #numismatics #achaeology #VirtualReality #museum

Excited to offer a seminar next semester in the museology programme on curating a numismatic exhibition for the University of Tübingen’s 550th anniversary. #museum #coin #medal #numismatics

The 3D models of the coins from the upcoming #VR #museum exhibition "Apostle Paul and Money" are now available on #Zenodo Krmnicek, S., & Dreiling, L. (2026). SFB1391 B02 Coin Models VR-Application "Apostle Paul and Money". Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

Today @ Dhd 2026 presentation of our vr projects #virtualrealty #digitalhumanities #MUSEUM #Archaeology #numismatics

Research data published: Krmnicek, S., & Dreiling, L. (2026). SFB1391 B02 Data VR-Application "Temple Tax and Dove Trader" [Data set]. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… #Numismatics #VirtualReality #3D

Today, Michael Derntl from @uni_tue Digital Humanities Center gave an excellent talk on research data management (RDM) in my PhD seminar. Many thanks Michael!🙏

Access statistics for Römische Archäologie in Deutschland (left) match our anticipated readership. By contrast, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Tübingen vol. 7 (right), has attracted unexpectedly strong download figures from Singapore, Brazil, and Vietnam. #numismtics #archaeology