from The New York Times
It's Just Daylight, but It Has Endless Shades
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Very often in the present-day context of museums, we tend to think of acceptable lighting as primarily artificial ones. However, there is a recent trend in museum design which looks back to the original way the interior of museums are illuminated - using daylight. It was also found that users react more favourbly to day-light in buildings, museums being no exception. And if it is the business of museums to reach as wide an audience as possible, could then the use of appropriate natural day-light in museum galleries be an important (human) consideration in "inducing" repeated visits, conservation concerns notwithstanding?