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Lighting for Museums, Galleries and Exhibition
Luminous ceilings stem to imitate daylight The daylight entering through the skylights
falls and The cove lighting provides additi- mainly on the exhibits on the upper floor; the
onal brightness. corridor needs supplementary lighting.
Power track integrated in the ceiling enabling Spotlights that can be repositioned
for spots to be positioned in flexible arrangements. for every new revolving exhibition.
Illuminating objects – exhibits are set off to dramatic effect by directional lighting
Path lighting for open museums

The best way to determine the perfect location for a mobile spotlight or flood is to conduct trials
– with light from below, from below and from the side, from the side, from above, from above
and from the side, or even bounced off another surface. Every solution has a charm of its own.
For lighting from below, recessed ground floods are the alternative to spots. Highly focused
beams are by far the first favourite; with illumination from below and some other configurations,
the beam spread can be greater.
The interplay of light and shadow casts sculptures in a dramatic light using spot lights
Light from below using the stationary recessed ground floods
Light from below using Luminy spotlight: Allevard flush-embedded in-ground in 6 LEDs
3W neutral white
Colored spot lights from side

Facade painting – floodlighting creates a splash of colour at night.
Facade lighting Light can make any building an eye-catcher. Combined with fascinating
architecture, well-planned facade lighting imbues a building with a unique quality – and
enhances the area around it at the same time.
Lighting management in museums
There are numerous ways in which lighting management can be used in a museum:
 Lighting management systems can activate and deactivate or dim the artificial lighting in
response to changes in available daylight. They can be used to provide daylight-
dependent control for sun-screens and anti-glare shielding on skylights or windows.
 Lighting management systems facilitate lighting productions: stage lighting or dynamic
effects can easily be programmed.
 Lighting management can be used to set different illuminance levels in different zones:
individual luminaires are simply dimmed. This is useful for casting an exhibition in a
dramatic light or as a light protection measure for individual exhibits.
 Lighting management facilitates simple multifunctional use of individual interiors.
 Lighting management enables installed luminaires to be assigned to dedicated exhibition
luminaires without de-installing the existing luminaires and without the need for re-
wiring.
 A lighting management system can monitor luminaires and report their functional status
or failure.
 Lighting management systems can log the operating status of the lighting installation and
thus record the radiant exposure of the exhibits for the light pass.
 Emergency lighting can easily be integrated into a lighting management system.
 A lighting installation controlled by a lighting management system consumes less energy
than anon-managed installation.
The luminous ceiling of the 800 m² “Salle des Etats” of the Louvre in Paris has an area of
300 square metres. It directs the incident daylight that passes through a glass roof into the
exhibition room. Supplementary artificial lighting is activated when the monitoring system
reports there is no longer enough daylight. 360 luminaires, each fitted with two 80 W
fluorescent lamps, are installed, some with wide-angle and some with narrowangle
reflectors. Illuminance is 250 lux on the floor of the museum,100 lux at the walls.
A lighting management system enables the separately switched luminaires and luminaire
groups to be easily controlled. The first photo shows the lighting situation “fully activated”,
the second photo shows the spot lighting” situation.
The lighting in this exhibition and event hall permits a variety of room uses. The lighting
situations shown here – controlled by a lighting management system – are “bright daylight-
white lighting” (1st photo), which is normally used during the day , and “less bright warm-
white lighting” (2nd photo), intended mainly for evenings.
The diffuse light provided by the luminous ceiling combined here with directional
spotlighting.

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