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Free pre-registrations for the SILBERSALZ school programme possible until 15 December 2019: School cinema, individual guided tours through the SILBERSALZ exhibitions and discussion rounds with researchers* - open to all regional schools.

Many thanks for all your submissions! We will get back to all participants by May 24th 2020. The call was open to films representing all scientific disciplines, research areas or concepts, tackling issues across all subgenres: science, natural history, history, geopolitics, investigative journalism, impact stories.

Press release – SILBERSALZ Festival 2019 doubled its number of visitors. Additional 10.000 persons came to see the installation "Museum of the Moon".

Press release – SILBERSALZ Festival 2019 doubled its number of visitors. Additional 10.000 persons came to see the installation "Museum of the Moon".

Yesterday’s weather kept us nervous but what a day it was: The Moon is up and the festival started!

We're super happy, that Zoo Halle is this year a festival location once more, providing a programme mix of tours, talks and initiatives all to do with the subjects of "Love in the Animal Kingdom" and "Love between Humankind and Animals" – and that in all their mutuality. In the Animal-Love-Center as well as at various initiative stands, the human-animal relationships are being explored in detail. The most diverse aspects of these relations will be presented here in an entertaining and playful manner intended especially for younger visitors.

300 years ago Johann Heinrich Schulze published his discovery on the light sensitivity of silver nitrate in Halle (Saale). We named our festival after this event.