Exhibitions Online
Our digital offer for a tour of the Francke Foundations from the comfort of your own home
Welcome to the site of our digital cultural offerings! In times of the Corona pandemic, a visit to an exhibition is often limited. Here you have the opportunity to get to know the exhibitions and collections of the Francke Foundations from the comfort of your own home.
In small films we present the treasures of the Wunderkammer. Our colleagues have researched and found out exciting things. The cabinet exhibition in the Kulissenbibliothek is a special treasure that can currently only be visited with great restrictions. For this reason, we are making the exhibition with high-quality photographs available to you as an online exhibition here.
And then there is the museum in India, which was initiated by us and whose work is very closely associated with us. For many of us it is difficult to reach. A series of films presents this exciting project. We hope you enjoy this special cultural journey!
The annual cultural-historical exhibitions of the Francke Foundations draw current themes from the history of Halle pietism. With their contemporary references, they are linked to the theme years and encourage visitors to deal with pressing questions of the present.
The Cabinet of Artefacts and Curiosities of the Francke Foundations is Europe's only completely preserved Baroque Wunderkammer at an authentic exhibition venue. Every year thousands of people visit this unique 18th century cosmos of knowledge. In our digital offer we present individual, special objects and their history.
All videos are in German. Hints to insert a subtitle in the corresponding language: You will find a bar with five icons at the bottom right of the video. On the far left you set the subtitles. Next to it under Settings you can select the language of the subtitles. Google will then automatically translate into the selected language, e.g. English. Have fun watching!
Treasures from the library are regularly shown in the selected cabinet exhibitions. For this purpose, the former manuscript reading room was transformed into a small exhibition room. Visitors to the backdrop library of the Francke Foundations can take a look at the valuable books of the historical collection. During the Corona Pandemic, the exhibition rooms are only accessible to a very limited number of visitors. With the online exhibition offer we want to give you the opportunity to view the exhibitions from the comfort of your own home.
Crisis-proof and unique - with an open-air exhibition, the Francke Foundations invite you to experience culture on a walk despite the Corona pandemic.
A museum on intercultural dialogue
This unique museum was initiated by us in Tharangambadi, South India, at the site of the first Lutheran mission worldwide, and was implemented together with many partners. Since 2017, a museum for intercultural dialogue has been inviting visitors from all over India in the house of the first missionary of the Danish-Halles Mission, Bartholomew Ziegenbalg. With a permanent exhibition, cultural education for children and many cooperations, the museum has become a lively place of cultural exchange in South India.
Europeans can only visit it in combination with a long journey. That is why we are now presenting in a film series how this unique project together with many partners in India and Europe has been successful. Vanakkam!