Goppion offers a variety of furnishings for museums to create an all-encompassing experience for the visitor. They deal with anything relating to museum furnishings and exhibit components—from seating to typefaces.
Walls, Partitions, Headers
The walls in an exhibition have to do so many things—they define and secure a space, provide a backdrop for graphics and artifacts, and even have to look good too. Goppion creates purpose-built freestanding walls, interlocking sections, and interfaces with existing or new displays. These can be done in an endless array of possible materials and finishes.
Platforms, Bases, Tables
Sometimes it’s not about security, safety, or special conservation measures, but about giving objects a home. Considering size, material, and finish, Goppion tests each piece to ensure complete structural reliability. If environmental factors demand it, anti-seismic and anti-vibration devices can be included.
Physical and Multimedia Interactives, Immersive Exhibit Components
Integrating new and emerging technologies into your museum is a tricky balance because you don’t want to take the spotlight away from the exhibits or compromise other installation aspects. But it pays off when visitors have emotional, intellectual and physical ways of exploring and appreciating the exhibitions. Goppion has helped create amazing spaces for hands-on, immersive and multi-sensory interactive experiences.
Protective Barriers
In order to give visitors the full experience while protecting the exhibit can be done in an elegant way as it was for the no-go zone around the Mona Lisa. Goppion has also created information panels to keep visitors from getting too close to The Last Supper.
Object Mounts and Display Cradles
Introducing a mount into a display case must be carefully engineered. In a confined space and within a carefully calibrated micro-climate, the slightest damaging substance could undo all the good work of every other considered element. Each Goppion support is custom-made and guaranteed to look afteras well as display the fragile book, manuscript or object.
Benches and Seating
Somewhere to sit, pause and reflect is often an integral part of the museum experience. Any interior or exterior seating must be sturdy, ergonomic, and made of safe materials. It also needs to be easy to clean and maintain and be built with longevity in mind.
Retrofitting Existing Cases
There are many reasons for a retrofit and just as many different ways of going about one. Sometimes worn veneers need replacing or glass fixing or upgrading. Other times interior mounts need to be brought up to spec. Sometimes, Goppion has been called on to install airtight cases within the old case shell using invisible technology.
Graphics
Graphics in a museum helps to convey the narrative of an exhibition: the types of objects on display, the relationships between them, the ways in which they’ll be arranged and viewed, the wider context, and your deeper objectives. Only then does Goppion develop the graphics into a design that feels just right—one that will soon become an integral, essential element of the story you’re telling.
