For YOU ARE PART OF HISTORY at Haus der Geschichte Bonn, we created the overall sonic identity and developed the sound design, modular music, interface and feedback sounds for more than sixty media exhibits.
OUR ROLE Sonic Identity, Sound Scenography, Spatial Score, Music, Sound Environment, Consulting & Mixing On-Site // CLIENT Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland // EXHIBITION DESIGN, 3D, 2D, MEDIA CONCEPT, PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Kossmanndejong // INITIAL CONCEPT Kossmanndejong, YIPP // CONCEPT & REALISATION SCHNELLE BUNTE BILDER // AV SYSTEMS INTEGRATION 235 Media // LOCATION Bonn // YEAR 2025
YOU ARE PART OF HISTORY is the new permanent exhibition at Haus der Geschichte Bonn. It presents Germany since 1945 through political change, everyday life, personal stories, contemporary witnesses and more than 3,800 objects.
The exhibition’s conceptual center is the idea that history is shaped by people, their actions and their lived experience. Visitors encounter this through historical objects, media installations and interactive stations that connect individual biography with German contemporary history.
Within this open exhibition environment, more than sixty media exhibits, including twenty-two interactives, create a high concentration of parallel sonic sources. We created an overall sonic identity to guide the sound decisions across the individual exhibits, so media audio, modular music, interface sounds, feedback sounds and room tones could belong to one consistent sonic language.
Our contribution focused on the sonic layer of the exhibition. We developed the signature sound, translated it into a spatial score for the exhibition environment, composed modular musical tracks, designed interaction-related interface and feedback sounds, and supported consulting and mixing for open room tones so the exhibition sound design could remain clear, accessible and acoustically legible.
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