See a Museum Through His Eyes? He'd Rather You Not.

Bruno Goppion, 33, is the third generation at Goppion, an Italian company that crafts display cases and exhibits for many of the world’s leading museums, including the Met, the Louvre and the National Gallery. When most visitors take in paintings, sculptures or pottery, Mr.

Goppion is scanning for an invitation to a pristine experience — cloudy cases, chipped paint or an exposed outlet all interrupt that encounter. “I am figuring out always, when I enter a space, what it is this institution is trying to tell about the history or the meaning of what they’re exhibiting,” he said.

The company began in 1952, when his grandfather, Nino Goppion, opened a glassmaking workshop in Milan. Bruno studied history and economic geography at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich but was raised in the business, crawling on his mother’s office floor and later walking through world-class museums with his parents; his father, Alessandro, took over in the early 1990s.

Italy, Milan

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