Hidden Gems today with Anne-Katrin Breitenborn, media designer at the State Institute for Music Research (SIM)
How long have you been working at the SPK, and what are your responsibilities?
Breitenborn: I am a qualified designer and have been employed as a media designer at the SIM since 2007. The role was created to integrate the production of printed materials such as flyers, postcards, brochures, posters, banners and so on more closely with the organisation. I also take on the design of small and medium-sized exhibitions.
What is your favourite place at the SPK, why, and what do you most enjoy doing there?
My favourite place is wherever visitors can interact with the museum. It’s where I can help ensure that guests feel at home here, have fun and take home lovely memories.
This includes, for example, the interactive wall in the Musical Instrument Museum that I created for the Quantz exhibition. It features a large-scale projection I created of the ‘Flute Concert at Sanssouci’, and an interactive wall bearing the question: ‘Who is your god of music?’
Frederick the Great had said of Quantz that he was the god of music. The wall was covered with colourful post-it notes in no time at all.
Much of the museum bears my signature, as I am responsible, in my role as a designer, for everything to do with graphics. This currently includes the design of the exhibition on instrument making in two German republics, which can be visited until December 2024.
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