Francke Foundations

The world's only known Bible to reproduce the complete Old and New Testaments in 3,333 consecutive images.

Fear, hope, love and anger - what did powerful emotions achieve politically and socially in the last hundred years? We invite you to an exhibition about emotions as a motor of reform and democratisation processes.

Professional expertise, provenance research and the development of future scenarios for the presentation and research of the unique Early Universal Museums: join the new platform for experts, museums and collections.

The Francke Foundations are shocked by the news that has reached us from Ukraine. We condemn the military attack on a sovereign state, the violation of international law and the escalation of violence and call for an immediate end to the fighting.

We have recorded the salt boiling hut models from our Cabinet of Artefacts and Natural Curiosities point by point from the roof to the foundation and transformed them into an interactive 3D model that makes the process of salt production visible. In a digital story, we invite you to take a tour of Halle as a city of salt boiling in the early modern period.

Look back with us to 1990: What was it like when many people doubted the ruinous state of the Foundation's buildings and some found the courage to begin the reconstruction work? We asked contemporary witnesses and rummaged through our photos.