Welcome to Fibre Optic Light and Design Limited, New Zealand’s premier fibre optic lighting specialist
We are proud of the wide range and scope of installations we have successfully completed since 1995
The applications of fibre optics are only limited by the imagination and often provide lighting solutions that conventional products cannot match
The unique properties of fibre optics open up lighting design opportunities in a wide range of applications
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National Museum - Interior of Maori meeting house with fibre optic ridge lighting, sequenced lighting of carved and woven roof and wall panels, and flush-mounted eyeball fittings in the floor


Diarama flood lighting with light emission from concealed locations


Flush-mounted fibre optic uplights


Comprehensive gallery lighting design. Note illuminated glass walk-on display

 

 

 

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Applications > Museum & art gallery lighting


Flexible stalk lights provide downward mini-flood lighting at close range


A whale skeleton illuminated with blue and white light, simulating moving water using synchronised light drivers, and clusters of robust floor eyeball fittings


Cave simulation using semi-concealed flexible ground lights


Linear cabinet lighting using lightbars with close-spaced mini lightpoints

 

FibreOptic Light and Design Ltd has played key roles in New Zealand’s National Museum (Te Papa) and the  Auckland and Otago museums, as well as several provincial museums and private galleries.

We design and produce our own acclaimed and award-winning lighting systems. These meet demanding performance criteria that imported systems are unable to attain. Our Titan quiet running and compact halogen and metal halide light drivers, fibre couplers, and specialist lensed lightheads, are unique exhibition lighting systems.

Artifacts, delicate exhibits, sensitive documents, and works of art are vulnerable to heat and ultra-violet damage under conventional lighting and daylight. They are protected and preserved with fibre optic lighting. Fibre optics can be used for signage, animated displays, safety signs, and directional devices, with results impossible to achieve by other lighting methods.

Our lockable lightheads allow precise and adjustable beam control, easy light manipulation, and controlled light direction. Clean distortion-free spotlighting can be directed exactly where required from discreet locations. Several lightheads are served by just one remotely positioned light driver, making for easy upkeep. There are no light bulbs to replace within the display space itself, meaning that there is greater flexibility in positioning lighting. It also means that exhibits need not be disturbed, and air conditioned cases are unaffected. Security and safety also benefit.

Explore the benefits of Fibre Optic lighting for your museum and art gallery projects.

Potential uses in museum and art gallery situations:

  • Individual Exhibit Lighting
  • Light Clusters
  • Spot Lighting
  • Wash Lighting
  • Continuous Illumination
  • Demarcation Lines
  • Emergency Lighting
  • Display Highlights & Features
  • Cove Lighting
  • Manuscript Illumination
  • Legend Panel & Graphic Illumination
  • Microscope Illumination
  • Special Effects