Universal Fiber Optics DISPLAY LIGHTING A light at the museum

Universal Fiber Optic Lighting has used to illuminate a wide range of worked with many world class lighting exhibits and artefacts in museums and designers and specifiers on high profile galleries worldwide. projects for museums and galleries around the world. We can supply complete systems using GLASS or PMMA fiber and we Our range of innovative, functional and manufacture our own class leading discrete fittings are market leaders in illuminators and end fittings. the display lighting field, and as shown in the images above, they have been Being a complete manufacturer we can 2 also make bespoke fabrications such products are always at the cutting as light tubes, rod and clamps, and edge of display lighting systems. gantry systems all finished to blend seamlessly into their surroundings. Specifying UFO products for your project, means you are partnering Our ongoing investment in new with a company that understands the technologies, such as our extensive importance of meeting deadlines, range of LED illuminators and our keeping a project within budget, and uniquely configurable MetroLED that prides itself on being 100% lighting system, means that our quality focused. 3 4 Museum of Liverpool

LIVERPOOL Opened in 2011, the Museum of Liverpool is the largest newly-built national museum in the UK for over a hundred years. The museum tells the fascinating story of Liverpool with a diverse range of exhibits, housed in a stunning building. Universal Fiber Optics fittings, specified by museum case manufacturers Click Netherfield, are used extensively throughout to provide detail enhancing down lighting to the exhibits. Images courtesy of Click Netherfield Limited 5 Cambridge Press Museum

CAMBRIDGE The rich history of the press is preserved at Cambridge University Press, where a mu seum was opened in 2011. The museum contains items relating to publishing, printing, bibles, prayer books and to print homes in Cambridge, London and the wider world. Highlights on display in the museum include a folio edition of the King James Bible printed in 1638 and a selection of John Baskerville’s punches. Universal Fiber Optics products were specified by Click Netherfield to provide delicate, safe lighting to the many precious manuscripts and artefacts on display in the museum’s display cases. Images courtesy of Click Netherfield Limited 6 7 8 The Polar Museum

CAMBRIDGE The Scott Polar Research Institute holds a unique collection of artefacts, journals, paintings, photographs, clothing equipment, maps and other materials illustrating polar exploration, history and science. Art and artefacts from the people who call the Arctic home are displayed alongside the last letters of Captain Scott and iconic Antarctic photographs by Herbert Ponting. A series of exhibits show how science is undertaken in the harsh conditions of the polar regions. Once again, fiber optic lighting is the preferred solution to lighting many of the museums display cases, with our systems providing cold, UV free illumination to the precious objects located within them. Images courtesy of Click Netherfield Limited 9 Art Gallery of Ontario

ONTARIO The Thomson Collection within the Art Gallery of Ontario comprises of more than 2,000 works of art which have been gifted to the museum by private collector Ken Thomson. It includes hundreds of works by Canadian and European artists which date as far back as the 12th century, together with a vast selection of British ship models from the 17th century through the Napoleonic era to the 20th century. UFO was selected to supply a range of fiber optic products to illuminate the large collection of model ships on display. Fiber optics provided the ideal solution for illuminating the precious and irreplaceable items as they don't emit heat or any ultra violet rays which can be detrimental to delicate, historical artefacts. The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario, Images courtesy of Click Netherfield/Kubik Maltbie 10 11 12 Robert Burns Museum

ALLOWAY The Robert Burns Birthplace Museum offers a unique encounter with Scotland’s favourite son. The museum comprises the famous Burns Cottage where the poet was born, the historic landmarks where he set his greatest work, the elegant monument and gardens created in his honour and a modern museum housing the world’s most important collection of his life and works. UFO fiber optic lighting systems are used extensively throughout the museum’s many display cases, with a combination of down lights and custom light tubes being used to light the varied artefacts. Images courtesy of Conservation By Design 13 National Museum of Scotland

EDINBURGH Situated amongst the historic cobbled streets and tenement buildings of Edinburgh's Old Town lies the National Museum of Scotland. The popular tourist attraction, which has recently undergone a £47 million redevelopment project that took three years to complete, has been voted amongst the Top 10 visitor attractions in the UK, and one of the Top 20 most visited museums and galleries in the world. Millions of visitors pass through the impressive museum's doors each year to view the spectacular collection of rare and priceless artefacts which will take them on an inspirational journey through the history of Scotland, the wonders of nature, a host of world cultures and the excitement of science and discovery. Images courtesy of Click Netherfield Limited 14 15 16 Museum of

TAUNTON Based in Castle, in the centre of this English county town, the Museum of Somerset secured lottery funding for redevelopment and reopened in September 2011. The museum hosts a collection of toys and dolls, sculptures, natural history items, fossils, fine silver, remains of pottery, and a collection of archaeological items that include the mosaic found at the Low Ham Roman Villa. Also included is the Somerset Military Museum where visitors are enabled to follow the fortunes of the Somerset Light Infantry as they carried out their campaigns across the world. Universal Fiber Optics supplied down light fittings and fiber optic light sources which are installed in cabinets throughout the museum and provide safe, UV free lighting to the exhibits. Images by Somerset Heritage Service SCC 17 The Novium

CHICHESTER The Novium houses collections which span thousands of years of human history - from Prehistoric stone tools to protest banners from the 1990s. Their social history, archaeology and geology collections catalogue the history of the district and directly connect locals to our ancestors. They tell the big stories of invasion and immigration, as well as individual stories of local heroes and villains. The name comes from the Roman name for the city of Chichester - "Noviomagus Reginorum". Fiber optic illuminators were installed in the base of the large display cases, pictured, which fed light through glass fibre optic cables to the small articulated fittings which provide light from both the top and bottom of the case. Images courtesy of Maevert 18 19 20 Maidstone Museum

MAIDSTONE Maidstone Museum is housed in a charming Elizabethan Manor House, in the centre of Maidstone - Kent's County Town. Each gallery will fascinate and surprise; with a wealth of exhibits and objects to see and enjoy as well as regular storytelling, wiggle & jiggle and children's holiday activities. UFO were contracted by case designer Click Netherfield to supply a range of end fittings, fiber optic cabling and illuminators which are all used to provide light from the base of display cases throughout the museum’s many gallery and exhibition rooms. Images courtesy of Click Netherfield Limited 21 We supply & design As well as an extensive range of standard fittings which are suited to display lighting applications, we also have an in-house design facility. This means we can work from your drawings or specifications and create a lighting system unique to your project. Visit lightingformuseums.com for more information on our products.

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We manufacture We install Our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility UFO has fully trained teams of professional is host to over £2.5 million of CAD/CAM and installation engineers who travel around CNC milling and turning technology. Our the world installing our wide range of team of highly trained engineers are able lighting products. Our teams are as much to quickly set up and run any production at home installing our lighting in delicate job. Constant investment in new museum display cases as they are technology means we are able to exceed installing systems in swimming pools, or in the most stringent quality requirements. an atrium fixing a chandelier.

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