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Publication request If you are considering submitting your manuscript to us for publication, please note the following: Your work must fit thematically into our publishing programme. Please do not send us the complete manuscript immediately, but only the working title, the table of contents and a short synopsis of your work. Please send this information to verlag[at]francke-halle.de. Please…

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Workshop in the Dr. Liselotte Kirchner Scholarship Programme on the 02/27 2026

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The voices of things The objects in the Cabinet of Artefacts and Natural Curiosities are in danger of being forgotten. Tayé, the crocodile, needs your help. Join in and rescue the stories of his friends from oblivion, one game at a time, in our web app! PLAY Actionbound by the TiQ youth club Fancy a digital scavenger hunt through the Francke Foundations? Our young people have worked hard…

Miscellany – Prelude to the Cabinet of Artefacts and Natural Curiosities

Collecting and organising is a way of learning about the world. Even in the cabinets of curiosities, people tried to show the world through thousands of objects in one room. When organising the collected objects, the first thing to do is to look closely and compare them to find common features. As soon as the different objects in a collection are rearranged, new connections emerge. Our…

Natural colours – Pigments from the rock

Painting with stones! The annual exhibition »Im Steinbruch der Zeit« (In the Quarry of Time, 2020) provided an opportunity to take a closer look at rocks – not only from a geological point of view, but also as a medium for painting. In addition to plants, sand, coloured earths and rocks have been used for centuries to extract colour pigments. With little effort, works of art can be created…