The Deutsches Museum in Munich, one of the world's largest and most traditional science and technology museums, attracts around 1.5 million visitors every year. With an impressive exhibition area of around 40,000 square metres at five different locations, it offers more than 30 exhibitions covering an enormous range of topics - from nuclear physics to aeronautics and space travel, from chemistry to bridge and hydraulic engineering, from musical instruments to health.
At the largest location, the Museum Island in the heart of Munich, Lightnet, among others, sets the scene for the exhibitions with around 3,000 metres of Matric P9 track profiles and 3,000 integrated recessed downlights. In this impressive lighting system, 3000lm downlights have been seamlessly integrated and offer the highest colour rendering (Ra98) as well as optimum values in accordance with TM-30-15 for ambient lighting. In addition, track was used to illuminate the exhibits, while the flush-mounted safety lighting ensures maximum safety. Optional indirect lighting and UGR-compliant microprismatic optics specially integrated for the office areas ensure optimum light at the workplace. All these specific features are combined in one multifunctional profile.
This unique project was planned and realised from 2016 to 2022 and required highly precise planning and preparation. The level of prefabrication was very high, each individual luminaire was supplied by Lightnet in predefined lengths and individually numbered to ensure it was installed in its predetermined location. The on-site installation was like a complex game of Tetris, where each element had to be matched to the millimetre. In some cases, the luminaires were installed at a dizzying height of 30 metres.
"A project of unrivalled size and importance," says Jochen Orth from 3F Filippi, who was in charge of planning the project. "Thanks to Lightnet, we were able to develop solutions that were previously unthinkable."
"The speciality of this project was to create a luminaire profile that did justice to the visionary ideas of the client," describes site manager Danny Linke from Kreutzpointner. "The result is breathtaking exhibitions with light lines of up to 60 metres in length. Everyone pulled together - we'd be happy to do it again any time."
Gerrit Faust, Head of Press and Public Relations at the Deutsches Museum: "Since the modernisation, the exhibitions at the Deutsches Museum are bright and light and make an open, accessible impression; the exhibits are shown to much better advantage than before. We are extremely satisfied with the current appearance. And the public success of our museum since the opening of the new part of the museum shows that visitors also really appreciate the redesign."
We at Lightnet are proud of the successful realisation of this extraordinary project and would like to thank our partners for their great cooperation.
