Contemporary Fibre Optic Lighting Systems for Museums & Galleries
Project:
Weston Park Museum
Location:
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Equipment Used: [click products for information]
Light sources:
Harnesses:
- TBC
End Fittings:
Universal Fibre Optics manufactured, supplied and installed bespoke fibre optic lighting systems in the recently refurbished Weston Park Museum, Sheffield. The fibre optic lighting was designed and specified by Paul Ruffles of Lighting Design and Technology.
The majority of the displays and display cases were constructed on site and UFO had to work closely with the main contractor, Mivan of Northern Ireland, to make the lighting installations possible.
Most of the fibre optic end-fittings are colour coded with the interior linings of the cases; the fittings included directional and focusable downlights, tube lights, gantries and 90 degree mirror fittings, lighting anything from arctic animals to local Sheffield artifacts.
Lightsources varied from 100w tungsten halogen to 150w metal halide and 150w metal halide DMX, a total in excess of 70 lightsources.
