Museum lighting
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about museum lighting
Product • By Buschfeld Design • Led Line - indirect lighting module
Led Line - indirect lighting module
Not every lighting task requires a spotlight.
Sometimes architecture benefits more from a calm layer of indirect light that defines the atmosphere of a room, reveals surfaces and creates spatial depth.
Led Line adds this layer to the Sense System.
Integrated directly into the track, the Indirect Lighting Module creates a continuous line of light while remaining almost invisible itself. The light source disappears into the system and only the illuminated ceiling or architectural surface remains visible.
The module is manufactured project-specifically and integrated into the track during production. Lengths can be adapted to architectural requirements, allowing continuous light lines to follow the proportions and geometry of a space.
As... More
Product • By Buschfeld Design • Fifty - directional spotlight
Fifty - directional spotlight
Fifty is the versatile spotlight within the Sense System. With its compact 50 mm diameter, it offers a balanced combination of visual restraint, flexibility and high-quality light. Whether illuminating artwork, highlighting products, defining architectural details or creating atmosphere in residential spaces, Fifty adapts to a wide range of lighting tasks.
Like all Sense System luminaires, Fifty can be integrated into the lighting concept from the earliest planning stages. Different mounting options allow the luminaire to be used across Ceiling48, Pend48 and In48 track systems, providing a consistent lighting language throughout a project while responding to different architectural conditions.
At the heart of the luminaire is a high-quali... More
Product • By Buschfeld Design • Ninety-Five - directional spotlight
Ninety-Five - directional spotlight
Good lighting rarely calls attention to itself. Instead, it reveals architecture, materials, artworks and objects exactly as they are intended to be seen.
Ninety-Five was developed for precisely this task. As part of the Buschfeld Sense System, it combines high-quality light with a high degree of flexibility, allowing the same luminaire family to be used across residential projects, museums, galleries, retail spaces and public interiors.
The luminaire integrates seamlessly into wall, ceiling and floor systems, creating a consistent lighting language throughout a project. Different adapter configurations allow Ninety-Five to move between applications while remaining part of the same overall system.
At the heart of Ninety-Five is a focus o... More
Product • By Buschfeld Design • Bespoke Solutions
Bespoke Solutions
Not every project starts with a standard product.
For more than three decades, Buschfeld has developed lighting infrastructure for architecture, museums, heritage buildings and custom interiors. Alongside the standard portfolio, many projects require adaptations that respond directly to a space, an object or a specific design idea.
These projects often begin with a conversation. A client arrives with an idea, a challenge or a vision for a space. Rather than searching for a predefined product, we work together to develop the right solution. Sometimes this means a small adaptation. Sometimes it leads to a new component, geometry or luminaire created specifically for the project.
The result may be a custom finish, a modified luminaire, a cu... More
Product • By Buschfeld Design • Floor48 Lighting Structures
Floor48 Lighting Structures
Available as Steel48 Floor and Tri48 Floor.
Steel48 Floor brings the logic of the Sense System into the room.
Instead of mounting lighting to a wall or ceiling, the infrastructure stands freely in space. A slim vertical profile supplies power and carries the luminaires, creating a flexible lighting tool that can be positioned wherever light is needed.
The system was developed for museums, galleries and historic interiors where ceilings and walls are often unavailable, protected or simply the wrong place for lighting. Over time, Steel48 Floor became equally relevant for residential projects, exhibitions and public spaces.
Like the Wall48 and Ceiling48 Track Systems, Steel48 Floor separates infrastructure from luminaires. The vertical pro... More
Product • By Buschfeld Design • Ceiling48 - Track System
Ceiling48 - Track System
Architecture changes. Lighting requirements change. Exhibitions move. Rooms are renovated. New functions emerge over time.
The Ceiling48 Track System was developed for exactly this reality.
At its core is a single aluminium profile that forms the backbone of the Buschfeld Sense System. Depending on the application, it appears as Ceiling48, Pend48 or In48. Mounted directly to ceilings and walls, suspended within a space or integrated into architecture, the system follows the needs of the project rather than forcing a predefined solution.
The profile itself remains deliberately discreet. At only 10 × 28 mm, it introduces a precise line into a room while carrying power, control and luminaires along its entire length. Linear runs, corn... More
Product • By Buschfeld Design • Wall48 - Track System
Wall48 - Track System
Wall48 was developed around a simple architectural question:
How can artworks, objects and changing displays be illuminated without filling walls with cables, fixtures and mounting points?
The answer is a continuous wall-mounted infrastructure that combines picture suspension, power supply and lighting within a single track.
For more than two decades, Buschfeld wall tracks have been used in private residences, galleries, museums and collections. Rather than treating lighting and picture hanging as separate systems, Wall48 brings both functions together. Artworks, photographs and objects can be suspended directly from the track, while luminaires can be positioned precisely where they are needed.
As collections evolve, walls can be rearra... More
Product • By Designplan Lighting, Inc. • R-SL-16
R-SL-16
R1-SL-16 is an LED light bar (24VDC) with a profile of Ø0.67”, and mounting for screw or magnetic spotlights (12VDC – C1-mini-R-SL). It is rotatable 360°, and available in 3 static color temperatures or tunable white and 3 standard finishes. C1-mini-R-SL Spotlight sold separately. More
Product • By Designplan Lighting, Inc. • C1-Mini-HC Adjustable LED Spotlight
C1-Mini-HC Adjustable LED Spotlight
C1-mini-HC is an LED spotlight for installation on a magnetic track, suitable for showcase lighting in museum and retail settings. It is 180° rotatable, 90° swiveling and available with a variety of optics, 5 color temperatures and 3 standard finishes. More
Product • By Designplan Lighting, Inc. • C1-Mini-S-VL
C1-Mini-S-VL
C1-mini-S-VL is an LED spotlight for installation in display cases, suitable for showcase lighting in museum and retail settings. It is 360° rotatable, 135° swiveling, has an attachment with mounting flange and is available with a variety of optics, 5 color temperatures and 3 standard finishes. More
Project • By Designplan Lighting, Inc. • Museums
Cartier and Islamic Art Exhibit
In 2022, a unique exhibit of Cartier jewelry and Islamic Art hit the Dallas Museum of Art that needed a specific and special brand of lighting to showcase these rare and iconic pieces. Corporate Friends showcase lighting was the solution found for the exhibit entitled “Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity” that sought to explore the influence of Islamic art and architecture on European and American design.“Islamic art was a formative inspiration for Louis Cartier and the Maison Cartier in the 20th century. The major exhibition explores the analysis and adaption by Cartier’s designers of shapes, techniques, and materials from India, the Middle East, and North Africa. Through the lens of the Maison Cartier,... More
Project • By QPRO • Exhibition Centres
Eltsin Centre
MFC “Eltsin Centre” – is a complex humanitarian cultural learning location formed by a museum, a library, a convention centre, a bookshop, a children`s scientific park and university etc. The construction of the building with a semi-transparent facade implies good illumination of the inner space. The rooms of MFC “Eltsin Centre” are full of air due to day-lighting in the building – so we had to maintain this perception of easiness with the help of light.
Concert and Show Hall AgoraThis space is used as a multiservice one and the lighting concept was designed considering two alternatives: basic lighting – ambient steady light for dancing or cocktails. TV shooting – ambient steady light wi... More
Project • By FORM • Exhibitions
MMOMA 99/19
“MMOMA 99/19” exhibition is made to time of the 20th anniversary of Moscow museum of modern art. The projects continues the line of anniversary exhibitions of MMOMA — “Open Day” (2009 — 2010) and “Fortune Museum” (2014 — 2015). The main theme of these projects is to show MMOMA’s collection in a new way as well as its historic building in Petrovka, 25 created by famous architect Matvey Kazakov.
Exhibition’s turning point is an artwork “Everything Is Going To Be Alright” by British artist Martin Creed — for a few years this neon writing welcomes the visitors of MMOMA at the entrance. In the exhibition’s design neon goes inside — a party vibe was c... More
