The past development and the present technical parameters of the luminescence experimental stations HIGITI, SUPERLUMI, CLULU and VISUV at HASYLAB are described. The experimental possibilities and limitations are demonstrated with recent results from various fields including rare gas solids, rare gas clusters, matrix-isolated and dense gaseous systems. The future development of luminescence spectroscopy at HASYLAB with undulator-monochromator systems for primary excitation are briefly discussed.