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31.03.2025

Marc Aurel

We have been eagerly awaiting for this project: the Marc Aurel exhibitions in the ancient Roman city of Trier. We at soundgarden are currently writing the tours for both participating museums, the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier and the Stadtmuseum Simeonstift.

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24.03.2025

Original Sounds Enrich the Listening Experience

We are currently creating a "Highlight Tour" in seven languages ​​for the Gemäldegalerie Berlin. Our on-site recording session, to record original audio recordings of the curators, particularly fascinating. On that day, we gained unique insights into the Gemäldegalerie's restoration work and the experts' extensive expertise.

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14.02.2025

Gasometer Oberhausen Breaks the Million Mark

The "Planet Ocean" exhibition is one of the most successful exhibitions in Germany! In just eleven months, the Oberhausen Gasometer attracted one million visitors with its underwater theme, making it one of the top five most-visited museums in Germany. soundgarden is delighted to be part of this fantastic exhibition, narrating it with our audio tours and audio guides.

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20.01.2025

Fates of Munich's Nazi Era

soundgarden has created an audio tour on this topic for the Munich Alte Pinakothek. Using four paintings, visitors can now listen to the background stories of art and people during the Nazi era.

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11.12.2024

The art of illusion

The current special exhibition at the Hamburger Kunsthalle is all about the topic of "illusion". Reflections in the painting, masks that hide faces and flies that look so real that you want to chase them away from the painting. Visitors can even explore four of the works on display interactively using VR glasses...

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08.10.2024

"Planet Ocean" exhibition extended

Never before has an exhibition at the Gasometer Oberhausen attracted as many visitors in such a short time as the current show "Planet Ocean". And that's saying something: The previous exhibition, "The Fragile Paradise," remains one of the most successful exhibitions in Germany! "Planet Ocean" could be even more successful – thus it has been extended until November 2025!

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03.09.2024

Augmented reality game

On September 10th, 2024, the Munich State Archaeological Collection will release its new AR-game "Game of the Snake". We are exited to go on a virtual treasure hunt with the seductive and dangerous snake Sissi, in the museum!

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01.08.2024

Diversity of life

We were tasked with producing a very special audio tour for the LWL Natural History Museum in Münster. Until January 2026, visitors will discover by listening to the world of genes with the twin sisters "Anne" and "Clara".

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19.07.2024

Dialects at the touch of a button

One of our ActiveGuides has made it into the newspaper! In Büchold, the geographical center of Lower Franconia, the weather-proof Active listening station, plays regional language examples from the four cardinal directions, at the touch of a button.

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10.06.2024

Doberlug palace museum

There are now two new audio tours to discover in Doberlug palace museum. One for adults and one especially for children with 'Dora the jackdaw'. The Dora bird lady enthusiastically reports on the former life of the noble Dohna family and explains the background of the many exhibits.

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21.05.2024

Record breaker

The Planet Ocean exhibition in Gasometer Oberhausen, breaks all records. Within the first three weeks it attracted around 115,000 visitors to the Gasometer center. Never that many before! We are really happy for the Gasometer and to be involved with our audio tours and guides. We have also visited there - and were thrilled by the fascinating forms of life in the world's oceans.

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08.05.2024

Tassilo, Korbinian & the Bear

A saint taming a bear. A ruler who rules like a king. And the founding of the Diocese of Freising. This year's Bavarian State Exhibition is all about Bavaria in the early Middle Ages. More specifically about “Tassilo, Korbinian and the Bear”.

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18.04.2024

Mama Bavaria!

After 8 years of renovation, the doors of the Munich State Archaeological Collection are finally open again. In addition to producing a highlight tour, we had another very special occasion: cabaret artist Luise Kinseher in our recording studio!

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17.04.2024

Back in Lenbachhaus

We are proud to announce, that after few years break, we are back to one of our most loved, world famous, Museum Lenbachhaus in Munich. Located in a prime Munich location, the beautiful Italian style villa presents a wonderful collection of various world class artists, like the Blau Reiter and more.

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10.04.2024

Our new environmental friend ECO guides

The new units stand outside in bright colors, they withstand wind and rain and play audio at the push of a button: Our new outdoor listening stations! Recycled products that do not require a power connection. The SolarGuide is powered by the sun thanks to solar panels, with the ActiveGuide you generate electricity by turning a crank.

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02.04.2024

Planet Ocean

A great project with many highlights is the new exhibition “Planet Ocean” in the Gasometer Oberhausen. Once again we were tasked to write and produce the children's tour with an interactive quiz. For the first time the GEO reporter Dirk Steffens came to our studio recording the German adult tour - a really exciting recording session!

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18.03.2024

Apps

Comments like these make our work worthwhile! We are pleased that so many people were listening to our audio contributions to the just finished exhibition, "Caspar David Friedrich- Art for a New Time", presented in the Hamburger Kunsthalle.

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26.02.2024

Kunstmuseum Lucerne

The ways in which art enters a museum are as diverse as the stories of its origins. The Kunstmuseum Lucerne illustrates this with the current collection exhibition “Where do you come from?”. The audio tours we produce are available in German, English, Italian and French. All available via our GuideApp.

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26.01.2024

We were there :)

The best thing about our projects is, of course, when everyone involved is immediately enthusiastic about an exhibition. And that was exactly the case with Caspar David Friedrich! Even during the production of the audio tours, project managers, sound engineers and speakers were already making plans for a visit to the exhibition.

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20.10.2023

The Wanderer

Caspar David Friedrich's "Wanderer" is probably Hamburg's most famous work of art. From December 2023, the Hamburger Kunsthalle dedicated an extensive retrospective to the artist with "CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH: Art for a New Age".  This retrospective clearly focuses on one question - that of the relationship between humans and nature. 

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30.06.2023

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Center

The new attraction of the Kennedy Space Center visitor centre finally comes with an audio tour with all the information on Falcon 9, SpaceX Booster, ORION space capsule and much more.

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16.09.2020

Baden-Baden Museum

From country town to glamorous world bath - an informative and entertaining journey from the Romans to the present day.

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01.09.2020

Amerang Farmhouse Museum

The Amerang Farmhouse Museum of the District of Upper Bavaria offers insights into everyday rural life in the Chiemgau and the Rupertiwinkel. Now also with an APP for iOS and Android.

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04.08.2020

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Last year the new visitor center of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission was opened in Beaurains France, along with our luma classic audio guide units.The audio guides, given free of charge, are an integral part of the various exhibits and include not just explanations of the various duties of the Commissions's world center ...

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24.07.2020

Beckmann & Brücke

With the redesign of the Expressionist Hall in the Buchheim Museum - the artists of the "Brücke" are now joined by works by Max Beckmann - the range of audio tours has also been expanded. In addition to the classic audio guide, visitors can now also use our GuideAPP.

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07.10.2019

Locomotive World Freilassing

Freilassing was once known as a railway town, with over a thousand people working in the local rail depot up until the 1980s. The beating heart of the depot was the round engine shed with turntable, which is today home to a railway exhibition.

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17.09.2019

SOULMATES: Jawlensky and Werefkin

From 24 October, the Lenbachhaus in Munich is dedicating a large exhibition to two central figures from The Blue Rider artists’ group: Marianne von Werefkin and Alexej von Jawlensky. The exhibition is entitled “Soulmates” in reference to the special relationship between the two artists.

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06.09.2019

Emperor and Sultan

When this major state exhibition opens in Karlsruhe on 19.10.2019, “Emperor and Sultan” will offer visitors access to a range of extraordinary exhibits. Perhaps most notably, the “Blue Tent” will be on show – an Ottoman tent from the 17th century which is so opulently embroidered that entering it is like walking into a paradise garden.

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08.03.2019

TRIUMPHANT SCALE: El Anatsui

The Haus der Kunst celebrated the opening of a new exhibition yesterday: Triumphant Scale is a comprehensive exhibition of the oeuvre of African artist El Anatsui. Our team can hardly contain its excitement! El Anatsui’s works are monumental in their scale. They can fill the vast spaces within this museum in a fresh and unique way – spaces which can otherwise appear intangibly large.

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