RP-30, Museum Lighting and Lighting for Fine Art
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About this Course
The IES offers a series of webinars that provide supplemental education to coincide with a recently revised or new IES Standard (Recommended Practice - RP, Technical Memorandum - TM, etc.). You can view this standard in the IES Webstore.
Description: The paradox of museum lighting is that the same spectral energy used to illuminate museum displays also causes fragile materials like pigment, fabric, wood, and metal to deteriorate. This presentation will provide insight into how to utilize IES’s Recommended Practice for Museum Lighting (RP-30-17) to deal with the conundrum of preserving light-sensitive materials while providing a dynamic visitor experience. Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course learners will be able to...
1. Describe the RP-30 document and recommendations therein, and review document navigation.
2. Identify lighting criteria that impacts the perception and interaction of color.
3. Understand unique challenges within the museum and fine art realm, and relate them to lighting selection and placement.
4. Explore typical lighting solutions for museum exhibitions.
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LockedScott Rosenfeld
Lighting Designer
Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery
Scott Rosenfeld is the Exhibit Lighting Designer at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery, where he studies how the qualities of light and luminaires shape successful lighting design. He is especially interested in comparing the insights of lighting measurements with the judgment of a designer’s eye. To explore this, Scott has worked with scientists to study appearance, engineers to create better lighting controls, conservation scientists to assess light’s potential for damage, and the U.S. Department of Energy to test LED products in museum settings. He contributed to the 2025 revision of the definitive text on cultural heritage preservation, The Museum Environment Revisited, and as a Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society, he leads the development of RP30:2025, The Recommended Practice for Museum Lighting.