Two smartphone screens show the "Frankfurt History" app with a city map, historical locations, and images such as "Jewish Sports Clubs in Frankfurt" and "Römerberg Advertising."

Historical Museum Frankfurt

We work for the Historisches Museum Frankfurt where history needs to be translated into the present. Our aim is to design historical and multi-layered content in such a way that it remains understandable and accessible – without smoothing over its depth. The project shows how we were able to use design as a connecting element between the archive, exhibition, and the online world.

Customer:
Historisches Museum Frankfurt
Year:
Since 2022
Links:
Website

Frankfurt History App

The Frankfurt History App guides users through the history of Frankfurt using walking tours with audio guides, connecting historical content with specific locations in the urban space. For the Historisches Museum Frankfurt, we designed a new app CI and developed a new in-app design.

Five smartphone screens of the "Frankfurt History" app showing locations, tours, city maps, and historical photographs from the Historical Museum Frankfurt.

Cross-Media Campaigns

To promote the Frankfurt History App, communication campaigns with a social media focus were launched. We provided comprehensive support: from strategy and conception, through design & copy, to media planning, monitoring, and the implementation of content creator collaborations.

For the launch of the app's various thematic layers, we went live with several campaign flights – featuring adapted content and design tailored to the target groups. The themes were New Frankfurt, FSV Frankfurt, and Feminist Frankfurt.

Red "Frankfurt History" app promotional cards with questions like "What stories does FSV Frankfurt have to tell?" and "Who shaped Frankfurt's history?" along with a smartphone mockup of the app.

The flights were primarily rolled out digitally – paid and organically – but also at target-group-oriented out-of-home touchpoints. Print advertising media were created to accompany them.

Four app promotional tiles for "Frankfurt History" featuring illustrations of feminist pioneers and texts like "Who dared the breakthrough for equal rights?" and "Discover now!"
Sticker on a laptop showing two women kissing with the text "Frankfurt full of feminist stories. Download the app and discover more," along with a QR code and the "Frankfurt History" logo.
Sticker sheet with colorful illustrations of couples, text "Download the app now" and QR code, draped on a purple background.

The thematic focus The City as Witness received an additional flight, which was displayed at relevant hubs in the city and digitally. For the launch event, the campaign was expanded to include several print media.

Subway advertising poster with a quote: "The people standing around me moved away from me, no one said a word, icy silence." by Lore Wolf, politically persecuted communist under the Nazi regime, for "Frankfurt History" by the Historical Museum Frankfurt.
Digital display in a subway station showing a portrait with quote: "At the time, I did not yet know that here in the Nazi camps the friendship of all antifascists was born." – Tomasz Kiryłow, former prisoner at the Heddernheim labor education camp, with Frankfurt History logo and app information.
Four smartphone screenshots of an Instagram series by the Frankfurt Historical Museum featuring eyewitness quotes about war, camps, and the postwar period, each with a portrait photo and a location map.
Brochure "The City as Witness" with a smartphone mockup on the cover and an open inner page "Introduction to Forced Labor" in red and white.
Open magazine showing the chapter "Homosexual and Queer People," featuring body text, contact information with a QR code, and historical photographs and documents.
Open brochure "Technology and Functionality" with body text on the left and a red page layout on the right, featuring smartphone screenshots of the app.

Memorial Platform – Frankfurt and National Socialism

This website serves as a digital bulletin board, comprehensively conveying the history of Frankfurt during the era of National Socialism and making historical content accessible to a broad audience. For this project, we developed the visual concept and accompanying advertising measures to present complex content in a clear, inviting, and understandable way.

Logo "Frankfurt and National Socialism – A Memory Platform" in dark blue, accompanied by circular graphic elements in white, dark blue, green, and pink on a light gray background.
Typography style guide with large headline "HEAD-LINE Type" on dark blue background and body text examples "Und für Fließtexte" on white background.
Dark blue poster and flyer "Frankfurt and National Socialism – Memory and Platform. For Use and Participation" with archival images and line graphics, on a green background and as an outdoor display case.