A museum asks light to do two contradictory jobs: reveal everything and touch nothing. Lunar Telephone Company designs lighting for museums, galleries, and exhibitions that renders every object faithfully, protects what's irreplaceable, and quietly steers visitors through the story.
Museum & Exhibition Lighting Design
Color you can trust. Automotive paint has opinions about light - so do photographs, paintings, artifacts, and textiles. We obsess over color rendering and beam quality so that what your visitors see is what the curator meant. It's why the Petersen Automotive Museum and private collectors keep letting us near the cars.
Conservation without compromise. Light levels, exposure, and heat managed to protect the collection — designed so the room still has drama. "Safe" and "stunning" are not opposites; they're a design brief
We speak curator, designer, and facilities. Exhibit designers get a collaborator who serves their vision. Facilities teams get systems they can maintain without calling us back for every gallery change. Directors get both, without refereeing.
Built for the daily open sign. An exhibition isn't opening night; it's every day the doors open, for years. We design for reliability, maintainability, and the realities of an operations budget.
We're on the mission the whole way. Concept workshops, documentation, fabrication coordination, on-site programming, and the phone call three months later. Same crew, start to finish. We don't design it and drift off into orbit.
What it's like to work with us
Our museum and exhibition work includes the Petersen Automotive Museum (Los Angeles); private automotive collections; Toyota Experience Centers; photography exhibitions for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association; and "How We Know The Weather" at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (Huntsville, AL) — which, for a company named Lunar Telephone, felt less like a project and more like a homecoming.
Our exhibition work has been recognized by the Illuminating Engineering Society, including an Illumination Award for interior lighting design.
The flight log
Whether you're a director planning a reinvention, an exhibit designer with a gallery that has to sing, or a collector whose cars deserve better than warehouse fluorescents — tell us what you're building. Moonshots welcome. That's kinda the point.
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