House of Brandenburg History, Potsdam

The House of Brandenburg-Prussian History is the central place for Brandenburg culture and history. In 2020, the entire listed building was technically updated, the entrance area was redesigned and equipped with a digital visitor information system.

Finally, in May 2022, the new “Brandenburg. Exhibition”, which brings 1,000 years of history to life in one hour - from the beginnings in the 10th century to the heyday of Prussia as a great power in Europe to the Weimar Republic, the 3rd Reich and the GDR to the present.

In order to be able to impressively present the many original objects in the exhibition, the optimal reproduction of very different materials and surfaces became the focus of the lighting design. Lighting for museums places the highest demands on the lighting tools used. The protection of paintings, the colour rendering index as well as the atmosphere and quality of stay in exhibition rooms determine whether works of art can unfold their full effect and curatorial concepts are received by visitors.

This is why the exceptionally high values for colour rendering index and colour fidelity of the "Stratas" track-mounted spotlights from InstaLighting convinced the lighting designers of Büro Rosenspiess from Berlin. A total of 120 Stratas luminaires with XICATO LED modules, different beam angles and optical attachments now set the scene for 228 objects such as the Gröben church book (from 1578), historical photographs of cloud formations from 1896 or the red Soviet star that the Red Army attached to the Küstrin fortress in 1945.