088 TECHNOLOGY / MUSEUM CASE STUDY GREENER TRACKS High Technology Lighting has been working to bring smarter, greener lighting to UK museums.
The UK’s Greener Museums’ Sustainability Leadership programme - sponsored by Renaissance North West with guidance from ARUP – recently published ways to improve sustainability for galleries and museums; a market sector under risk, as operating costs rise and budgets get squeezed. UK lighting design and manufacturer High Technology Lighting has been working with many of the participating galleries and museums, introducing their versatile Quartet ranges of LED track spots and meeting the varied lighting needs of these galleries and museums. “We find that each gallery or museum has its own particular requirements,” says Joint Managing Director Thomas Holgeth. “No one design fits all, and the fact we design and manufacture in the UK means we can quickly respond to their needs, which is also helping us build up an almost unique portfolio of solutions going forward.”
One of the key factors to come out of the programme was a greater awareness that there are now LED solutions from manufactures like High Technology Lighting that offer the appropriate light quality, distribution and flexibility to directly replace the existing tungsten track spot lights, that proliferate almost every gallery and museum. Alexandra Walker, Head of Arts & Heritage at Harris Museum & Art Gallery in Preston, was among those who worked with High Technology Lighting. “We are delighted that we have been able to find LED lights of a sufficient standard to meet the demanding requirements of gallery lighting, in terms of both conservation and lighting effect,” he says. “In changing to LED lights, we are also able to make efficiency savings now and in the future, so it’s good for us as well as doing our bit for the planet.”
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MODEL BEHAVIOUR Lighting Services Bristol chose GE to give Brighton Toy Museum a new lease of life.
Lighting Services Bristol has selected the LED Display Case Lighting System from GE Lighting to highlight Brighton Toy Museum’s range of over 10,000 toys and models, thanks to its inherent sustainability credentials, quality of light and optical performance, in addition to its heat management system. In the past year, Brighton Toy Museum has undergone major renovation work, which includes new showcases and exhibits that house period antiques and priceless model train collections. The museum asked Lighting Services Bristol to select a cabinet lighting system that could reflect the true quality of its exhibits and would blend seamlessly into the museum’s surrounding interior environment. “Traditionally, display lighting has an exceptionally high energy output,” comments Richard Ludlow, Director, at Lighting Services Bristol. “Therefore when it came to the lighting overhaul at Brighton Toy Museum, we wanted to ensure we specified a light source that offered superior energy savings that really enhanced
the products on display,” continues Richard. The LED Display Case Lighting System from GE can achieve dramatic lighting effects, using significantly less energy. It creates a
In addition to striking visual effects, the LED Display Case system uses advanced thermal management for cooler operation, ensuring the artefacts will not overheat. The LED system offers a lifespan of 50,000 hours, ensuring maintenance is kept to an absolute minimum. Moreover, the Display Case Lighting System will waste no light as it’s all directed into the case. It’s also exceptionally energy efficient, typically achieving an 81% saving in energy consumption and CO2 emissions versus traditional installations.
bright, uniform light, which will stand out against ambient lighting, really enhancing the piece on display. The unique solution uses multiple point sources of light to increase uniformity, reflectivity and sparkle effects to stand out from other ambient lighting in the museum.
Richard Ludlow concludes, “In today’s environment, specifying lighting that’s as sustainable as possible is always top of the agenda. We selected GE Lighting as one of our preferred suppliers - with the aim of creating some of the most stunning display lighting seen in a museum - whilst making enormous energy and maintenance savings. The result was an exceptionally high quality of light with an advanced thermal management system – which will ensure the integrity of the displays.”
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