LIGHTING APPLICATION ON THE COLLECTION DISPLAY OF THE TEXTILE MUSEUM, JAKARTA

Abstract

Museum is a facility that is used as a public space with the aim of promoting culture and a meeting place for people from various backgrounds as well as being a place to preserve culture, educational and a fun recreation space. One of the well-known museums in Indonesia is the Textile Museum which is an interesting tourist destination even among the international community. The Textile Museum stores fabrics collection which are one of the featured aspects of Indonesian heritage. Display collection arrangement is important to provide proper information to visitors. To support this display design, lighting design should be prioritized as an important aspect in spotting the collection and to create space ambiance in museum. Since visitor visual perspective would create museum image, the emphasis of specific lighting design for museum interior would attract visitors more. This research is intended to obtain a guide for lighting design for Jakarta Textile museum interior design. The research method used is descriptive qualitative with reference to the design theory of Rosemary and Otie W. Kilmer. As a result, Textile museum design apply custom lighting that can provide both aesthetics to the collection and textile safety. This suggestion would support the Jakarta Textile Museum to  achieve its goal of being an attractive place of recreation and education.