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 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Amber S. Mohr Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 4:32 PM To: [log in to unmask] 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/ ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).