Sustainable lighting of museum buildings

Tillmann De Graaf, Mennatalla Dessouky and Helmut F.O. Müller

Renewable Energy, 2014, vol. 67, issue C, 30-34

Abstract: The sustainability of museum lighting is twofold, as not only energy efficiency is required for high quality illumination but control of damage to objects by optical radiation in addition. The conservation of objects, which can be highly responsive to radiation, is as fundamental as the cultural education by the medium of exhibition.

Keywords: Museum lighting by daylight and artificial light; Damage to museum objects by optical radiation; Energy efficiency of lighting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2013.11.035

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