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On March 16, 2019, a large exhibition on soap bubbles in art and science opened in Palazzo dei Priori, home of the National Gallery of Umbria in Perugia, Italy. Marco Pierini, the director of the Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, curator together with Michele Emmer of the exhibition, wrote in the Introduction to the catalogue that the Soap Bubbles. Forms of Utopia Between Vanitas, Art and Science exhibition was inspired by Michele Emmer and his book, Bolle di sapone. Tra arte e matematica. The exhibition was initially intended to be a kind of mise en scène of the volume, physically bringing together the images accompanying the text. However, as organization and research efforts progressed, variations, additions, and deviations to the framework were implemented, modifying the guidelines and rendering the initial catalogue, which was already abundantly vast and well structured, even richer.