The Na­tio­nal Gal­le­ry in Lon­don is one of the world's most im­portant art gal­le­ries. Its de­ci­si­on to go for ERCO's LED light­ing makes it an even grea­ter lea­ding light in more ways than one.

Ar­chi­tect:
Wil­kins Buil­ding - Wil­liam Wil­kins (1778-1839); Sains­bu­ry Wing - Ro­bert Ven­tu­ri & De­ni­se Scott Brown, Phil­adel­phia.

Pho­to­gra­pher:
Rudi Mei­sel, Ber­lin

Place:
Lon­don

Lighting solutions

The Na­tio­nal Gal­le­ry is home to one of the world's most be­au­ti­ful and ex­ten­si­ve collec­tions of Eu­ropean pain­ting. Over 2300 pain­tings from the mid-13th to the 19th cen­tu­ry await the vi­si­tor. Alt­hough foun­ded in 1824, the gal­le­ry did not move to its cur­rent lo­ca­ti­on at Tra­fal­gar Squa­re until 1838. The most com­pre­hen­si­ve ex­ten­si­on was made in 1991 with the opening of the Sains­bu­ry Wing, de­si­gned by Ven­tu­ri, Scott Brown & As­so­cia­tes. This took the ex­hi­bi­ti­on area up to today's level of 46,396s­qm. A staff of 600, in­clu­ding world-re­now­ned re­se­ar­chers, con­ser­va­tio­nists and res­to­rers, looks after the art­works and the vi­si­tors.