Digital Lighting for the Analogue Museum

Innes, Malcolm

Abstract

Exhibition lighting in museums and galleries usually strives to render the true nature of the surface of the exhibits. This would normally include using light sources that provide the most accurate rendering of colour and tone - white light sources with an appropriate colour temperature and high colour rendering index scores. This has been the traditional approach to exhibition lighting for decades, but in the era of solid state lighting, is there now an opportunity to rethink how we illuminate our precious and fragile historic artefacts? Should we be questioning our whole knowledge base for conservation lighting and looking for new ways to maximise visibility and minimise damage to our most fragile artefacts?

Citation

Innes, M. (2015). Digital Lighting for the Analogue Museum. In PLDC 2015 Proceedings

• Conference Name: Professional Lighting Design Convention 2015
• Start Date: Oct 28, 2015
• End Date: Oct 31, 2015
• Publication Date: Oct 29, 2015
• Deposit Date: Feb 4, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 4, 2016
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Book Title: PLDC 2015 Proceedings
• Chapter Number: 1
• ISBN: 978-3-9811940-3-6
• Keywords: Exhibition lighting; solid state lighting; conservation lighting; colour temperature; colour rendering
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9498