Project Type: Gallery Lighting ProjectExhibition Designers: At largeCompleted: 2007Case Study No: 3144 This fascinating exhibition features the tools of the modern day smuggling trade as seen through the eyes of those who police our borders. Methods of detection and monitoring are used to highlight how today’s smugglers are caught – despite the increasing clever technology that is employed. The gallery is set in the …
The Underground Adventure Chicago Field Museum
Project Type: New Gallery Lighting ProjectProject cost: circa £95,000 ex VAT and feesCompleted: 1999Case Study No: 1005 The Underground Adventure was built as a children’s interactive exhibit where the visitor is shrunk to 100th of human size in a “transmogrifier” chamber and then taken through a labyrinth of underground burrows, nests and waterways. Life size animated exhibits include a biting earwig, splashing crayfish, wiggling worms …
Elgin Marbles, Duveen Gallery, The British Museum, London
Built: C19 & C20Listed: Grade 1Project Type: Gallery Relighting ProjectProject cost: circa £80,000 ex VAT and feesCompleted: 19941994 Lighting Industry Awards: CommendationCase Study No: 1001 The Elgin Marbles, formally described as the treasures of the Parthenon. This installation completed in 1994 used metal halide light sources in specially designed searchlight luminaires. It was commended by the Lighting Industry Federation for its energy efficiency and aesthetic performance. Posted …
The Egyptian Sculpture Galleries The British Museum, London
Built: C19 & C20Listed: Grade IProject Type: Gallery Relighting ProjectProject cost: circa £175,000 ex VAT and feesCompleted: 2010Case Study No: 3139 In 2009 Light Perceptions was commissioned to review the lighting in a number of galleries in the British Museum. The study included an analysis of how the gallery lighting and the illumination and visibility of different object types can be affected by different numbers of …
Recycle It, Think Tank Birmingham
Project Type: Gallery Lighting ProjectExhibition Designers: At largeCompleted: 2007Case Study No: 3124 The “Recycle It” gallery in Birmingham’s Science Museum showcases a popular environmental theme. Pupils visit a landfill site & follow Wendy Worm into the compost heap to find out what can be put into a compost bin. They see the journey a drinks can takes as it is recycled and made back …
Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge
Project Type: Exhibition Lighting ProjectExhibition Designers: at largeCompleted: March 2012Case Study No: 3325 See Cambridge through new eyes! The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge has one of the most important collections of its kind in the UK. Originally founded in 1884, it has been in its present location on Downing Street since 1913. Light Perceptions was delighted to have been involved in …
Traders Gallery, The National Maritime Museum
Project Type: Gallery Lighting ProjectExhibition Designers: At LargeCompleted: July 2011Case Study No: 3295 This is a new gallery dedicated to the history and development of The East India Company. It was the first gallery in the building to be lit entirely with LEDs. The Exhibits include many traded items, the souvenirs of distant journeys and parts of the fleet of ships themselves – including …
We Made It, Think Tank Science Museum
Project Type: Exhibition Lighting ProjectExhibition Designers: At LargeCompleted: December 2012Case Study No: 3285 This new gallery at Think Tank; Birmingham’s Science Museum, takes the visitor on a journey through the intellectual wealth and history of manufacturing in Birmingham and the West Midlands. Exhibits include full scale cars, motorbikes and bicycles; there is working original machinery including lathes, screw turners and milling machines as well …
Creswell Crags Visitor Centre Creswell Crags
Project Type: Gallery Lighting ProjectExhibition Designers: ContinuumCompleted: 2009Case Study No: 3185 This scheme was designed for the opening of the new visitor centre at this site where some of the rarest Ice Age finds were excavated from the limestone gorge caves. The scheme involved lighting of the new interpretation and exhibition area, including the illumination of large format murals and landscapes and many ancient …
China Design Now,The V&A
Project Type: New Gallery Lighting ProjectExhibition designed by: Tonkin LuiCase Study No: 3135 One of The V&A’s spring exhibitions, China Design Now, was the first in the UK to explore the recent explosion of new design in China and the first to attempt to understand the impact of rapid economic development on architecture and design in China’s major cities. From the 2008 Olympic …
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