Hey Kathie,

You may want to look into getting a copy of Guidelines for Selecting Solid-State Lighting for Museums, a 2012 report from the Getty Conservation Institute.  It was recommended during a Connecting to Collections Care webinar on LED lighting as a great resource on the subject.  Of course, some things may have changed since then.

I don't have any personal tips to share.  Unfortunately, when the lights in our museum were changed to LEDs a couple years after I had done this preliminary research, I wasn't actually included in the conversations.  :(  Maybe that's the tip -- if you have information to share, demand a seat at the table!

~Liz Cisar
Collections Assistant
Center for Western Studies
Augustana University
2001 S. Summit Ave.
Sioux Falls, SD 57197


On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 3:54 PM Kathie Gow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi Listers. We are replacing our 8-foot-long fluorescent tube light fixtures in two large display cases (due to a smelly blown-out ballast!), with new LED fixtures, and I need to decide the color temp of the new lights. I am thinking we want warm light, but something that will still show whites as white. Would 2700K do the trick?

(We are a small historical society museum with lots of oak and other wood cases, whitish walls (that are mostly covered) and some exterior LED fixtures that have cooler light...

Happy for all LED lighting tips and things you've learned!

best,
--Kathie


Kathie Gow

Curator, Hatfield Historical Museum     hatfieldhistory.weebly.com

Oral History Producer     wordspicturesstories.com


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