COMPARATIVE LIGHTNING STUDY FOR ART GALLERIES

An important aspect of the museum viewing experience is that the viewer visually adapts to the ambient illumination, and this adaptation would not be achieved by side-by-side viewing or any other form of simultaneous presentation. The subjects were each taken to the comparison situation, where one of the artworks was on display at the preset illuminance. When a setting had been made, the experimenter recorded the control reading and asked if the subject could see any differences between the two situations, using five categories of difference: brightness, clarity ,acceptability of overall color appearance, brightness or colorfulness of individual colors, naturalness of individual colors .