Goppion

24/05/2026

Norman Foster on the WING winning the 29th Compasso d’Oro: “This award is really a tribute to Italian craftsmanship and particularly to Sandro and Bruno Goppion and their extraordinary team.”
Our thanks to and the for a partnership that continues to push the boundaries of what a display case can be, and to the for this extraordinary honor.

18/05/2026

Today is International Museum Day. This year's theme, "Museums Uniting a Divided World," recognizes the role of museums as spaces for dialogue, understanding, and shared cultural heritage.
Goppion is proud to work alongside museums and cultural institutions around the world. From Abu Dhabi to Rotterdam, Tokyo to New York, Florence to Cairo, our work supports the institutions that make these connections possible.

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2. 📍 📐, Roland Buschmann 📷 Goppion Archive
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4. 📍 📐 📷 Bruce Schwarz
5. 📍 📐 📷 Mario Ciampi
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16/05/2026

Three values guide our work.
🛡️ Conservation. Every display case we build is designed around the specific vulnerabilities of the object inside it. Without the preservation of cultural objects, study material would be lacking on which to base future interpretations. Conservation is not a subsidiary service, but the heart of what we do.
👁️ Readability. Making an object visible is not enough. We engineer for full optical transparency, uninterrupted sightlines, and lighting that reveals the material qualities of the work. The goal is not just to show, but to create the conditions for an object to be understood.
🏛️ Space. The display case is never an isolated object. It operates within a composition of architecture, objects, light, and visitors. Every museum defines itself in dialogue with its own context, and our work is to ensure that the case serves the character of the place and the visitor's experience within it.

1. 📍 New York Public Library, Polonsky Exhibition, 📐Pure+Applied, 📷 Max Touhey
2. 📍 Museo Galileo 📐 📷 Mario Ciampi
3. 📍Tokyo National Museum 📐 Museum Design Office 📷

06/05/2026

Last week, our team handed over The Source: Where Curiosity Sparks Discovery, a new experiential gallery at the Library of Congress opening to the public this Friday, May 9. The new experiential gallery in the Jefferson Building invites visitors aged 8 to 15 to explore the Library's collections across four immersive zones dedicated to text, image, sound, and film. Goppion provided complete exhibition fit-out for the gallery, coordinating design and fabrication of the entire installation, including lighting systems, graphic panels, interactive tables, integrated audio-visual elements, and display cases.

Exhibition design: and the Center for Exhibits and Interpretation.

📷 Shawn Miller / Library of Congress

30/04/2026

20/04/2026

Design Week is in full swing in Milan right now. Our home city where many of our most significant projects can be seen firsthand. For visitors arriving for Design Week, here is a guide to encountering Goppion's work across the city's museums and cultural institutions. If you are a professional visiting Milan, we would be happy to accompany you for a closer look. Feel free to reach out.
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2) Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, at Santa Maria delle Grazie church.
3) The Art Museum at
4) Raphael’s cartoon for the School of Athens at
5) Michelangelo's Rondanini Pietà at
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15/04/2026

April 15 is Leonardo da Vinci's birthday, and also National Made in Italy Day. It is hard to think of a figure who better embodies both.
Leonardo was an artist, an engineer, a scientist, and a manufacturer. He studied optics and light. He investigated the properties of materials. He filled thousands of pages with observations, hypotheses, and technical drawings, treating the boundary between art and science not as a division but as a workspace.
Over the years, Goppion has had the privilege of protecting many of his works, including the Mona Lisa, The Vitruvian Man, The Last Supper, and many of his original manuscripts and drawings.

10/04/2026

Royal gowns worn by Norway's two queens, medieval tapestries and contemporary textiles alongside painting and sculpture. Oslo's holds around 400,000 objects, and textiles are among the most demanding to display.

Fabrics require extremely low light levels, tightly controlled humidity, and cases built entirely from materials that will not off-gas volatile compounds onto the objects inside.

Goppion custom-made 280 display cases of 80 types for the museum, each with passive humidity control and VOC filtration. Forms range from hexagonal to oval to trapezoidal, shaped to the diversity of the collection. For textiles specifically, the engineering had to reconcile full optical transparency with complete environmental control, allowing visitors proximity to objects that are, by their nature, always deteriorating.

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31/03/2026

Three sleds from the Oseberg ship burial, the only Viking Age sleds to have survived anywhere in the world, are on the move. The Museum of the Viking Age, designed by , has begun relocating them to their new home.
Reassembled from roughly a thousand fragments each, their wood made fragile by an early preservation treatment over a century ago. This week, the first sled traveled on a specially built rig at just 25 centimeters per minute. The second and third will follow in the coming weeks.
Their destination is a set of Goppion display cases engineered for seismic protection, vibration isolation, and long-term climate stability.
Congratulations to the team on this exciting milestone.

27/03/2026

At the Musée du Louvre, beneath the Cour Visconti, the Galerie des Arts de l’Islam unfolds under a floating glass canopy, in a space excavated 12 meters into the ground.
For this gallery, Goppion developed display cases designed to combine airtight conservation, security, and full transparency. The cases open entirely, allowing curators to enter and work directly within them, while maintaining strict environmental control once closed.
A project where engineering precision supports both the preservation of objects and the freedom to care for them.

Exhibition design: Renaud Piérard