Amber:
You should get in touch with the Toy & Miniature Museum in Kansas City ( or
come down and see their exhibits and talk to staff).  They re-installed MANY
cases for miniatures using LED lights when they re-opened a few years ago
with great success.

Contact: Jamie Berry, Exec. Director or Mary Wheeler, Asst. Curator at
816-333-9328.

Jean Svadlenak
Consultant to Museums
624 Romany Road
Kansas City, Missouri  64113-2037
(816) 361-5639
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Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 4:32 PM
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] LED lamps in exhibitions


Does anyone have experience using LED (Light Emitting Diode) lamps in your
exhibitions and how successful have these lamps been for you?
I manage a gallery of miniature furnishings and decorative arts, and our
case exhibitions consist of several roomboxes made out of white 1/8" Plexi.
I'm primarily attracted to LEDs because they do not emit UV or IR light and
emit very little heat.  We currently have florescent lamps, which give us
enough visible light but emit harmful spectrum and increase the temperature
in the cases daily.  We tried several of the "clip" LED lights (five small
lamps per clip, which could be moved about within the case) but the amount
of visible light was far too low for display and the lamps only backlit the
Plexi boxes and did very little to illuminate the objects within.  I'm now
hoping to find a solution in an LED product, but am open to anything that
will help solve my heat/UV/IR problems.
If anyone has any experience with the product or with your own lighting
design solutions, I would be very happy to hear them.
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Amber

Amber Mohr
Curator/Collections Manager
The Kruger Collection
University of Nebraska
133 Architecture Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588-0107
402. 472. 3560
http://krugercollection.unl.edu/

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