Illuminating museums: Louvre Lens (Lighting)

The Département Pas-de-Calais has always been known for its coal and heavy industry. The Louvre Lens has now added an attraction which, at first glance, appears far removed from its surroundings. It is a branch of the Louvre in Paris and yet conceptually of unusual compactness and rather unlike its big brother. Thanks to the architects of SANAA in Tokyo and the lighting designers of Arup in London, the Louvre Lens has become a milestone in the worldwide museum landscape.
Architect: SANAA, Tokyo
Exhibition design: Studio Adrien Gardère
Lighting design: Arup, London
Museographic lighting and commissioning : ACL Alexis Coussement
Landscape design: mosbach paysagistes
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[@willianaleman6114]

Thank you for the insight on illuminating the museums.
Although LED technology is the most per watt efficient, it’s very well known that this technology provides the most inefficient spectrum power distribution on color. This can be shown when measuring the light sources with other methods like TM-30-18 or better SSI than CRI, where in the latter, light manufacturers use gaming to obtain higher rendering scores.
It would be interesting to know the workaround museographers and light designers use around LED spectrum power distribution limitations to bring the visitors the best color rendition of the art when combining LED with daylight.
Thanks once again for the informative insight.

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Lovely explanation, thanks

[@Ajithq8]

A very unique project by SANNA. A feather in the cap for ERCO :) I am a big fan of Rickard Kelly + Louis Kahn team's Kimbell Art Museum & Yale University Art Gallery project where integrating natural light + artificial light smartly ! We need more and more such project. How can we have sustainable lighting project by shutting off natural light ?

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