The Australian Racing Museum Picks the Winner with Lightmoves
The Australian Racing Museum is off and running! Located in Melbourne 's Federation Square , the racing Hall of Fame, otherwise known as "Champions", is rapidly becoming one of the city's popular attractions. Employing the latest in audiovisual and display technology, this unique exhibition showcases the history of thoroughbred horse racing in Victoria .
Lightmoves' acknowledged expertise in the museum and display field, enabled them to design, supply and commission the majority of the lighting for this project. Lightmoves' work with museums and galleries throughout Victoria includes providing the fibre optic lighting and control for Melbourne Museum . They also provided total lighting control for the entire Federation Square complex.
Fibre Optics
As the practise with most museums today, all display cabinets were lit with fibre optic lighting. The specification was performance-based, despite the contents of the display cases not being known at the time of quotation. Consequently, Lightmoves designed a system that would allow for maximum flexibility, whilst delivering the required light levels within each case.
The display cabinet lighting design was based around 48-fibre end-light cables. This was teamed with Digilin's CDC50 adjustable, recessed fibre optic lens, that offers full gimbal movement and beam angle adjustment from 16° to 35°. To illuminate exhibits deep inside the larger cases, Lightmoves also commissioned Digilin to manufacture custom, adjustable dropper-rod versions of the CDC50.
As the light sources were required to be bright, dimmable and operate quietly, after much consideration and testing, Lightmoves chose a customised version of Martin's FiberSource CMY150 as the primary illuminator. “The ability to dim each light source remotely was important, as it enabled the curators to reduce the amount of light on certain objects. Too much light or a high UV content can damage sensitive artefacts” explains Joe Casamento, Lightmoves Project Manager.
Electroluminescent Wire on the Horse Gait Display
The Horse Gait display is an interactive audio visual experience that demonstrates the four basic gaits of the horse (walk, trot, canter and gallop). The movements of the horse for each gait are illustrated by an animated sequence of outlines that appear on a black glass screen in synchronization with the sound of hoof beats. This unusual animation effect is produced by the sequential switching of a series of recessed 3mm wide Electroluminescent wires, using a programmable Dynalite controller
Function and Display lighting
Complete with its own kitchen, bar and stunning views of the landmarks along the Yarra River, the magnificent top level function room has the capacity to hold 350 guests. Here, Lightmoves supplied Aureol Beam Shaper display lights to hang on the custom Circuit Tube lighting grid, custom manufactured by Browns Welding, one of Lightmoves' partner companies. The result is a flexible installation that allows mood and scene set lighting for functions and events.
Architectural dimming
Lightmoves supplied and commissioned Dynalite dimming and lighting control for the entire three level complex. This involved intricate dimming of the fibre optics via DMX and dimming of all fluorescent, display and function lighting.
From walk to trot to canter to gallop. Lightmoves hedges no bets when it comes to innovation, technology and design.
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