LET there be light . . . And there is light in Launceston's Lawrence House Museum, which re-opens for the 2015 season on Monday, March 30.

During the winter months, new and improved LED lighting has been installed throughout the museum — LED lighting has the benefit of both enhancing the displays and protecting them as no damaging heat is produced, and will also reduce the museum's running costs.

To celebrate the advances in lighting from the earliest times, the first exhibition in the Inner Hall is devoted to lighting and contains many curious artefacts from the museum's collection, demonstrating man's quest to see better in the dark. There is a Cornish connection because visitors to the museum can find out who first demonstrated the incandescent light bulb — was it Edison or Swan or indeed Cornwall's Humphry Davy?

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