Welcome to «Old Lighting» Virtual Museum
The Virtual Museum of Electric Lamps and Historical Lighting is a community of devoted specialists and hobbyists who enjoy collecting and using electric lamps, luminaires and control gear produced in the past, as well as finding and sharing technical and historical information on this topic. We mostly appreciate pieces of professional lighting equipment, which means less chandeliers and more discharge lamps. As we position ourselves as mostly historic-oriented, we do not welcome LED lamps, chinese CFLs and other widespread and ultra-modern equipment here. So if you like slight traces of nostalgia about past century, you're in the right place!
Unfortunately at the moment the main website is in Russian only. We will try to find some opportunity to translate at least the most interesting pages into English, but as we are a non-profit community, this can take some time. So if you are still interested to see some really interested pieces of lighting equipment, you may use automated Google translation with the help of a special panel located at the top-right of each page. Yes we know that this translation is awful, but hopefully it's still better than nothing
Welcome to our pages!