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Lightswitch illuminates Machu Picchu exhibit with Chauvet

Named after a 15th-century Incan citadel in the Peruvian Andes, the “Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru” exhibit, which opened at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, showcases a collection of 192 gold artifacts crafted by this vanished civilization. Visitors enter various immersive walk-through galleries that house the artifacts on two floors.

The lighting design by Lightswitch features Chauvet Professional fixtures supplied by Murphy Lighting Systems. Positioned on ground supported truss structures that run throughout the exhibit, integrated into the exhibit wall system, the lighting design helps to guide visitors as they walk through Machu Picchu.

“For this exhibit, we relied on the Chauvet fixtures for the graphics, scenic lighting, and circulation in addition to creating effects, such as an underwater look in one of the galleries”, says Lightswitch’s Bradley Malkus, who served as lighting designer and programmer for Machu Picchu. “This exhibit was produced and designed by World Heritage Exhibitions, a division of City Neon Group, and a select group of collaborators that we have worked with on many projects over quite a few years.”

“From World Heritage Exhibitions there were the producers John Norman and Anthony Tann; project managers Christina Wright, Stacy Sidman, and Mike Lewis; master electrician Philip Zammit; as well as our electricians Edgar Olave and Carlos Gonzalez. From Spilt Rock Studios we had exhibit designer Amanda Wambach; and from Design Electronics, Scott Daeng and Felice Taddeo have done excellent work in A/V and show control”, adds Malkus.

During the design phase of the project, the Lightswitch team was responsible for integrating lighting into the multi-dimensional exhibit, in addition to rendering power distribution design services. Then at the installation, they provided the master electrician, with Malkus onsite to supervise the lighting installation and programming.

Over 400 lighting fixtures were used in the exhibit, roughly two-thirds of them from Chauvet Professional. These included the Ovation P56-FC, Colorado 1 Quad Zoom, Colorado Batten Quad 12 and DMX4 Dimmer Packs.

(Photos: Chauvet Professional/Lightswitch)

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