The latest news on our projects

27.05.2026

Van Gogh, Hodler and a Cabriolet

The Kunstmuseum Basel is honoring the collector Gertrud Dübi-Müller with a wonderful exhibition. It is thanks to her and other 20th-century collectors that modern art found its way into Swiss museums. As soon as she came of age, Dübi-Müller purchased a painting by van Gogh—the beginning of a life as a collector and patron, as well as a friend to many artists. 

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27.05.2026

We made it!

On May 22, 2026, trial operations began at the fully renovated Documentation Center at the Nuremberg Nazi Party Rally Grounds. We extend our heartfelt congratulations on this important milestone in the project!

At soundgarden, too, much of our focus in recent weeks has been on the Documentation Center: We designed and wrote the audio tour and subsequently produced it in nine languages. In addition, we designed the sound for numerous media stations—including music and ambient sounds.

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16.04.2026

Forests of the World

The "Forest Worlds" exhibition at the Gasometer Oberhausen has opened and will captivate visitors until the end of 2026 with large-format nature photographs, exhibits of long-extinct animal species, compelling information, and the world's largest indoor light sculpture! This is the "tree" pictured, which rises 35 meters high into the Gasometer.

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10.03.2026

Off to Cologne!

The audio guides for the major Kusama exhibition are finished – and already on their way to the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.

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23.02.2026

A reunion with Dirk Steffens

The sound of the forest in the studio? Almost. For the upcoming exhibition "Forest Worlds" at the Gasometer Oberhausen, GEO reporter Dirk Steffens once again visited our new in-house studio and recorded the adults German-language version.

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14.01.2026

Documentation Center

During the Nazi era, Nuremberg hosted the “Reich Party Rallies,” which attracted millions of visitors. The Reich Party Rally Grounds Documentation Center is currently being redesigned—and we are involved! 

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14.01.2026

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama is one of the most influential artists worldwide, and as a pop icon, she is also extremely well known outside of art circles. On March 14, 2026, the Museum Ludwig (Cologne) will launch a major retrospective of her entire oeuvre.

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16.12.2025

Schlösserland Sachsen 2025

Talking paintings, avatars, informal audio texts: Working with Schlösserland Sachsen was once again a great pleasure for us this year!

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18.11.2025

From the Sea to the Forest

The "Planet Ocean" exhibition at the Gasometer Oberhausen will only run until November 30, 2025. Then all the marine life will move out, and the space will be transformed into a green oasis!We are already looking forward to the audio productions on the new theme, "Forest Worlds"!

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30.10.2025

The Fascination of Beech-Forests

Originally, Beech-Forests were widespread throughout Europe. Today, they are a rarity. This includes the unique Grumsin Beech-Forest! It is located near Berlin and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In addition to guided hikes led by certified nature and landscape guides, we now also offer our time-independent audio guide app with nature photos, original sound recordings, a GPS map, and the voice of the famous GEO reporter, Dirk Steffens.

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08.10.2025

NEW ADDRESS

soundgarden audioguidance GmbH

Ingolstädter Straße 20

80807 München 

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06.10.2025

Sweden's Superstar

The Hamburger Kunsthalle is dedicating a major exhibition to the once world-famous artist Anders Zorn – with audio tours for adults and children.

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01.10.2025

From Turner to van Gogh

While the Neue Pinakothek in Munich is undergoing renovations for several years, its highlights are moving to its neighboring building: the Alte Pinakothek. An audio tour in German, English, and Plain language awaits.

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19.09.2025

Masterpieces in Seven Languages

The new highlight audio tour of the Gemäldegalerie Berlin not only lets the paintings speak: The curators also speak in personal voiceovers, offering visitors fascinating insights into their expertise.

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19.08.2025

Contemporary Witnesses Memories

What do Gerhard Richter, Hannelore Elsner, fireflies, and a goat girl have in common? They all appear in our new audio tour through the outdoor area of ​​Rammenau Castle – narrated by people who lived, worked, or created art here.

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16.06.2025

Rendezvous of Dreams

The Hamburger Kunsthalle is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Surrealism with a major exhibition! Our audio tours offer fascinating comparisons between works of German Romanticism and Surrealism. The exhibition runs until October 12, 2025.

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06.06.2025

Storytelling at the Alte Pinakothek Munich

A Rubens portrait whispers of competitions, a painted bouquet lacks a touch of color, and Jan Brueghel's "Sermon of St. John the Baptist" invites you to play a search for St. John: Whether it's well-known masterpieces or hidden treasures from the collection, the Alte Pinakothek museum new audio tour tells the stories behind the paintings.

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02.06.2025

Buch Monastery

Did you know that there are not only Catholic, but also Protestant confessionals? Most of these now very rare examples disappeared from the 18th century onwards. But one can still be seen in the Castle Country of Saxony! Namely, in Buch Monastery. There, visitors can embark on a journey of discovery with the audio tour we wrote and produced: How did the Cistercian monks live there over 800 years ago? What has changed since then? And how did the Protestant confessional come to be in a Catholic monastery?

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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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