Calendar of the Francke Foundations

Events

Highlights

Sorting through architecture. Learning and living in Francke's school town reconstructed from architectural plans

26. February 2025

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Book presentations in the series »Newly discovered and newly acquired«

Alchemical knowledge and practical laboratory work

05. March 2025

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Interdisciplinary workshop on pharmaceutical production in the early modern period and at Halle's Historic Orphanageorphanage

The Power of Emotions

19. March 2022 - 05. February 2023

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An interactive course on emotions in our everyday lives that opens up surprising spaces for play and thought.

Night at the Museums

10. May 2025

© Uwe Frauendorf

Illusion Cabinet of Artefacts and Natural Curiosities. Chaos - order, music and light

Total Real. The discovery of visualisation

23. March 2024 - 02. February 2025

How do we perceive the world to understand it?

On social order, division and unification

20. May 2025

Steffen Mau sitzt auf einem Stuhl

Steffen Mau as a guest in the »Personalities in dialogue« series

  

Events

Monday, 02/24/2025

Free Playtime in the Krokoseum

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2:00 pmChildren's ProgramHouse 1 - Historic Orphanage

Free Playtime in the Krokoseum

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2:00 pmChildren's ProgramHouse 1 - Historic Orphanage

On mondays in the Krokoseum: The Art Studio

»Earth without Art is just‚ eh’.«

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4:00 pmChildren's Program

Language Learners Group on Monday

Open offer of language and learning promotion

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5:00 pmAn Open OfferHouse 33
Tuesday, 02/25/2025

Coffee Lectures at the Study Centre: Interesting facts during the coffee break

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1:00 pmTalkHouse 22-24

Free Playtime in the Krokoseum

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2:00 pmChildren's ProgramHouse 1 - Historic Orphanage

Free Playtime in the Krokoseum

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2:00 pmChildren's ProgramHouse 1 - Historic Orphanage

Bible-Tuesday

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6:00 pmTalkHouse 28

»in Engelland bekannt, und von vielen beliebet und verlanget«

The Francke Foundations and England in the 18th century

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6:00 pmTalk

Rap-Workshop

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3:00 pmWorkshopHouse 37

The Green Lab

Discover, Explore, Experiment!

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4:00 pmChildren's ProgramHouse 1 - Historic Orphanage
Wednesday, 02/26/2025

Free Playtime in the Krokoseum

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2:00 pmChildren's ProgramHouse 1 - Historic Orphanage

Free Playtime in the Krokoseum

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2:00 pmChildren's ProgramHouse 1 - Historic Orphanage

Sorting through architecture. Learning and living in Francke's school town reconstructed from architectural plans

Book presentations in the series »Newly discovered and newly acquired«

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6:00 pmTalkHouse 52

Visit of the Reading Fairy

On Site and online

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4:00 pmChildren's ProgramHouse 1 - Historic Orphanage

BookKidsWorkshop

For Story Twisters

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4:00 pmChildren's ProgramHouse 1 - Historic Orphanage

Exhibitions

Archivophilia. Beautiful things from the archive of the Francke Foundations

Cabinet exhibition

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21. November 2024 - 20. April 2025House 22-24

Francke in Transition

Join us in designing the new exhibition on the founder of the foundation!

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11. September 2022 - 31. December 2024House 28

Cabinet of Artefacts and Natural Curiosities

3000 Wonders of the World

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House 1 - Historic Orphanage

Historic Orphanage

A castle built for education purposes

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House 1 - Historic Orphanage

Library Hall Kulissenbibliothek

»One of the best libraries of our time«

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House 22

Pietismus-Cabinet

Strength of the word

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House 1 - Historic Orphanage

Tour through the Cultural Monument

300 Years of Education in a Unique Architectural Landscape

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Waisenhaus-Cabinet

World change through human change

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House 1 - Historic Orphanage