Architectural Lighting in Museums

Abstract

The role of light, mainly daylight, in the museum interiors is considered in three areas of its dominant usage: light for architecture, light for an exhibited item, and light as an exhibited item. This is predetermined by the architectural concept of the museum, due to the creative position of the architect, the author of the project creating a spatial composition of a museum building or complex with one or another daylighting system. Architectural form making is directly related to the nature of the exhibition lighting solution. Examples are given, mainly, from a varied foreign practice of modern museum construction on the projects of famous architects of the 20th-21th centuries in three classified areas.