Behr Museum MQ2-44
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| Code: | MQ2-44 |
| Name: | Museum |
| Brand: | Behr |
What color is Behr Museum?
Behr Museum MQ2-44 is a deep, muted brown-gray with a noticeable warm cast that keeps it from reading flat or charcoal-like. Its low saturation gives it an earthy, weathered appearance, with soft taupe and faint rosy-brown notes visible in balanced light. In brighter rooms, Museum can appear more like a softened warm gray, while dimmer light brings out its richer brown depth. It makes a grounded choice for a study, dining room, exterior trim, or kitchen island, especially alongside creamy off-whites, aged brass, walnut, and natural linen. Pair it with pale greige walls and warm stone finishes for contrast without introducing a sharp color break.
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What are Behr Museum undertones?
Museum is a deep, very muted earthy, slightly muddy brown. The HEX sample has a subtle orange bias, but its low chroma turns that hue into a neutral-looking color rather than a clear orange. Warm bulbs can make it look creamier or more golden, while cool daylight may mute that warmth and pull it closer to beige or greige.
HEX value:
RGB code:
104, 89, 81
Is Behr Museum cool or warm?
warm
cool
With a hue of 21°, this brown reads warm on the HSL color wheel.
MQ2-44 Museum HSL code: 21, 12%, 36%
Hue - degree on a color wheel from 0 to 360. 0 is red, 120 is green, and 240 is blue.
Saturation is expressed as a percentage. At 0%, it appears as a shade of grey, and at 100%, it is in full color.
Lightness is also a percentage value. 0% is black, and 100% is white.
How light temperature affects Museum
Natural Lighting. During the day, natural light shifts from about 2000 K at sunrise/sunset to 5500–6500 K at noon.
In addition, natural-light temperature depends on its direction:
| Direction of sunlight | Visible temp. | Hue | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| North | Cool | Bluish | All day |
| East | Warm | Yellow | Before noon |
| West | Warm | Orange-red | After noon |
| South | Warm | Orange-yellow | All day |
Artificial Lighting. When choosing bulbs, pay attention to their color temperature in Kelvins.
Use the slider to see how this brown shade looks under different lighting:
4000K
Coordinating colors.
Colors that go with Behr Museum:
Monochromatic color scheme
This scheme consists of various shades, tints, and tones of a single color. While it offers a perfect combination of hues, without accent décor it may become monotonous.
Lighter shades
Darker shades
Complementary color scheme
This color scheme is a combination of two shades that are opposite each other on the color wheel. The high contrast between these colors creates a vibrant and dynamic visual effect. For the color Museum with a red hue, complementary colors are those with a green hue close to 201, such as Behr Oceanic Climate and Nor'Wester.
LRV of Museum
Museum has an LRV of 11.02% and refers to Medium Dark which means that this color reflects very little light. Why LRV is important?
Light Reflectance Value measures the amount of visible and usable light that reflects from a painted surface.
Simply put, the higher the LRV of a paint color, the brighter the room you will get.
The scale goes from 0% (absolute black, absorbing all light) to 100% (pure white, reflecting all light).
Act like a pro: When choosing paint with an LRV of 11.02%, pay attention to your bulbs' brightness. Light brightness is measured in lumens. The lower the paint's LRV, the higher lumen level you need. Every square foot of room needs at least 40 lumens. That means for a 200 ft2 living room you'll need about 8000 lumens of light – e.g., eight 1000 lm bulbs.
Color codes
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Not sure what the difference between HEX and RGB is? We break down color models in plain language. Understanding color models
| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| HEX | #685951 |
| RGB Decimal | 104, 89, 81 |
| RGB Percent | 40.78%, 34.90%, 31.76% |
| HSV | Hue: 21° Saturation: 22.12% Value: 40.78% |
| HSL | hsl(21, 12, 36) |
| CMYK | Cyan: 0.0 Magenta: 14.42 Yellow: 22.12 Key: 59.22 |
| YIQ | Y: 92.573 I: 11.509 Q: 0.683 |
| XYZ | X: 10.766 Y: 10.682 Z: 9.277 |
| CIE Lab | L:39.04 a:4.684 b:6.89 |
| CIE Luv | L:39.04 u:9.518 v:7.709 |
| Decimal | 6838609 |
| Hunter Lab | 32.684, 1.604, 6.049 |
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