While on Spring Break, I visited the Frye Museum in Seattle, which was showing a Chinese exhibit on scroll paintings and traditional art pieces. Exhibit space is very big, and was dedicated entirely to one exhibit, so around the thousands for square footage. Walls are all permanent throughout the museum, pedestals and stages for different art pieces are brought out for different exhibits, but most stages were put away in storage. The lighting in the museum was entirely track lighting, with moveable lights for showing in different directions or locations. Natural light is evident in the design of the gallery space but isn't a major factor. Most light came from artificial lighting pieces. The exhibit doesn't have an exact path to follow and the gallery is pretty openly laid out with hallways and corridors stretching to all different parts; yet most people I observed would stick to the right entrance that goes past the gift shop. Walls are almost all white, standard for a museum. Very aesthetically pleasing but not big on color overall, possibly the designer wanted to not distract from the artwork on display.
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