The company was founded in 1829 as a glazier’s shop in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. In 1931, Otto Hahn, a nephew of the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Otto Hahn, developed the glass cement that made all-glass construction possible. Glasbau Hahn’s first all-glass display case was awarded a gold medal at the Paris World Fair in 1937.

Since then, Glasbau Hahn has been at the forefront of all innovations in the museum sector relating to display cases, be it in the field of preventive conservation, monitoring through data acquisition, the development of all major opening systems, the introduction of fibre optic lighting and LED lighting or the initiation of the BEMMA programme to control air quality in display cases in cooperation with BAM. Today, Glasbau Hahn’s commitment to traffic and operational safety once again places it at the forefront of the development of sustainable structures for the preservation of our physical world heritage in exhibitions and depots.