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NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM Los Angeles, CA

Type: Musueum Size: 200,000 SF Owner: Natural History Museum Architect: CO Architects

The scope of work for this project included an interior renovation and expansion of the existing museum, as well as architectural preservation of the existing historical building. This main renovation project was completed in 2009. The objective of the lighting design for the museum renovation project was to highlight and enhance the original architecture of the building while improving the quality and performance of exhibit lighting throughout the museum. In the main rotunda, the lighting was designed to improve the appearance of the architectural details of the dome roof, while expressing the sculpted forms of decorative elements and stained glass features, which were also renovated and preserved as part of this project. Lighting for the individual exhibits was chosen to minimize light degradation to artwork, have adjustability for future versatility of the exhibit layouts, and to recreate natural lighting that would simulate different times of day, depending upon the setting of the exhibit.mitigated using specific optics of luminaires designed to minimize light spills.