Lighting Design For The Museum Area With No Light Damage

Museums stand as the treasure-houses of cultural and natural heritage of the human world, and they are also a nation's important indication of the level of economic development and civilization. With the social and economic development, museum illumination design has become a specialized discipline of study, which is an important branch of the museum science. The illumination design is also an important standard in determining the quality of a museum. However, there exists, by far, a weighty and complex issue in museum illumination design, namely, the damages resulting from lighting. The issue is especially significant for the exhibition area, the key part of a museum, because the illumination design of the area involves the designs of space, interface, physical environment, decoration and so forth. The design should also take into consideration the preservation and protection of the cultural relics. Therefore, the issue of lighting damages calls for special attention. Based on a damage-free principle, the paper introduces a systematic and thorough study of the museum lighting, especially the one in the exhibition area. The paper sets damage-free lighting in the museum exhibition area as the focus of study. Combined with proper theories, the paper attempts to propose systematically the damage-free illumination technologies and principles for the museum exhibition area through on-the-spot observation in several large museums in China and the subsequent judgments and conclusions. The end of the paper raises issues requiring further study and the work prospects.