Is there a Right White for Museum and Gallery Lighting?

Innes, Malcolm

Is there a Right White for Museum and Gallery Lighting?

Innes, Malcolm

Authors

Malcolm Innes

Abstract

For the last two decades, the choice of light source for gallery lighting seemed straightforward. Specifying spotlights for a conservation gallery almost always meant using low voltage tungsten halogen.

Now the go-to technology in gallery lighting is LED and suddenly the goal posts seem to have shifted. Colour rendering and colour temperature are positive choices. How do we make these decisions and are the colour metrics we use actually describing what we really see?

Citation

Innes, M. (2013). Is there a Right White for Museum and Gallery Lighting?.

Conference Name	Professional Lighting Design Convention 2013
Start Date	Nov 1, 2013
End Date	Nov 1, 2013
Publication Date	2013-11
Deposit Date	Apr 9, 2014
Publicly Available Date	Apr 9, 2014
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
ISBN	ISBN 978-3-9811940-2-9
Keywords	Gallery lighting; lighting design; colour metrics; colour rendering; colour temperature;
Public URL	http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6744