The International Lighting Museum (Golden Sea)
type: Item
alternative label: Golden Sea lighting museum
Type of information: collection
Field: lighting and projection
Web: museum
City: Guangzhou
Country: China
significant person: Michael Ramsaur
significant person: Dan Redler
context: Locatedin Guangzhou at Golden Sea’s headquarters, “The International Lighting Museum”was establishedfollowing Golden Sea’s appointmentby the Ministry of National Culture as a“National Cultural Industry Demonstration Base“. The museum enhances Golden Sea’s demonstration base, promotes the history and the future of the professional stage lighting industry and its culture. The museum is the first of its kind to chart the development of Western and Chinese stage lighting and was originally established as the “Power of Light Museum” by DANOR THEATER AND STUDIO and Mr. Dan Redler, in Israel. Planning to move the exhibits from Israel to China and establish this new museum began in2013 and Golden Sea officially opened “The International Lighting Museum” in March, 2016. Alongside the original collection, the museum now includes a Chinese hall as well as the International one.The collection boasts over 500 articles which revealthe development over the last 500 years of the use of lighting in theatre in both Western and Chinese culture.
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Founding date: 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z