Lighting

[Paul Shea]

Any one have any good sources for museum track lighting. We are re-modeling our exhibit halls and looking for types and resources. We have all the technical information.

[Jenny Wiley Arena]

Hi Paul,
The American Association of Museum’s “Museum Marketplace” Web page is a good place to start when looking for vendors. See http://tiny.cc/o1zus. If you have considered LED lighting, the American Institute for Conservation has a helpful Web page on it at http://tiny.cc/59r3v. Kristen

[Paul Shea]

Thanks Kristen. We are members of the AAM, but sometimes we forget to look at what is right under our noses.

[Connie Houchins]

We just completed two exhibition rooms and used Lightolier basic track #6000 and lamps #6296. We are pleased with the quality and versatility of the product.http://www.lightolier.com/home/home-swf.jsp

[Paul Shea]

Thanks Connie, can you provide any costs? I have to go out of state for a distributor and very few list prices. I am putting together a grant and need numbers.

[Connie Houchins]

Sorry Paul, the email went into my spam folder. Our rooms are not large. We had two rooms with 30 ft of Lightolier single track installed at costs of $1950 per room including installation; in addition, the cost of 20 low voltage 50-watt MR 16 fixtures and bulbs came to $1760. We also had dimmer switches installed which we love. They can be set to return to the amount of light usually used or changed independently depending on the conditions.

[Paul Shea]

Thanks Connie, we three large rooms and three landings we are doing. I got a local architect to help out. He called in a favor with a lighting company and we got some good numbers. Looking at our larger rooms it appears that your numbers are right in line with what I have.

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