To use a quote by Warren Buffett: Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked. For LED track lighting, when it is used in the museum do you find out its good quality or bad, and it’s the popular lighting fixtures for museum illuminating, compare with other track lighting, it seems to be no much difference for most people, but in fact, there is alternative specifications for both applications. However, track lighting fixtures are widely used in many fields, so it’s not easy to know the differences and judge the quality in a few words.

In recent years, commercial forms seem to have have more clear and distinct demarcations, and the market competition in lighting industry is aggravating more and more, most of manufacturers are developing lighting products with more fuctions and specifications to meet the new requirements on the markent, for example, they focus on office lighting products, and also focus on chain stores, restaurants, hotels and other commerical applications. For museum lighting, many people may think that track lighting is just for spotlighting the exhibits, what’s the difference from the normal commercial track lighting fixtures? Not only for illuminating the exhibits, but also highlight their features and details, so more functions and parameters are required for special applications.

From the illustration above, we can feel the light beam with tender, comfort and uniformity. The visual appearance of the exhibits is inseparable from many factors, such as area space and objects, etc. Certainly, spotlighting is extremely important, once the lighting you use is not proper, that would not show the characteristics of objects and fail to builld the well atmosphere in the showroom.

Spotlighting in hotel or store generally comes with a bit and dull, many people may think that the light beam should be a clear boundary hale sense. However, museum lighting is not the case, in order to make the exhibits prominent and clean, light with soft and uniformity is very important, especially for paintings and photos. With regard to the lighting for hotel, the spotlight comes with uniform scallop-shape light beam that can build a orderly sense of illuminating & decorating.

Overall, there are some differences between museum track lighting and commercial track lighting fixtures:

1. Difference of the shape of light beam and spot. Spotlighting in hotel or store generally comes with a bit and dull, many people may think that the light beam should be a clear boundary hale sense. However, museum lighting is not the case, in order to make the exhibits prominent and clean, light with soft and uniformity is very important, especially for paintings and photos. With regard to the lighting for hotel, the spotlight comes with uniform scallop-shape light beam that can build a orderly sense of illuminating & decorating.

2. Difference of color temperature and quality of light beam, lighting quality for museum is same as store and hotel lighting. For commercial track lighting fixtures, as most of store owner generally requires a bright ambiance to show their products and environment, so higher lumens are more popular, and track light heads are compactly located, lumen efficiency usually need to be more than 80lm/W, color temperature at 3000K can show more white and brighter, and chromatic aberration can be hidden. For museum illuminance, lighting need to be darker to create the exhibiting atmosphere. Of course, some special galleries and museums will have very bright requirements for exhibition halls, which are due to the protection of antiques, Some antiques in the museum will have annual exposure control. Interested parties can be self-employed, furthermore, the atmosphere created to make it, so most of the lighting efficiency of light 35-55lm / W, designers and owners pay more attention to the consistency of light color and color rendering index.

3. Requirements for dimmable lighting, exhibits and level of antiques in museum may be widely different, so adjustable illumination is required for different effects and different styles.