A visit to the Bloomfield Science Museum will leave wonderful impressions in both children and adults. There are open interactive exhibitions, you can view integrated art objects and do something interesting for the whole family. The task of the museum is to create a bridge between science and the general public. Therefore, a lot of things can be touched inside, and expositions explain everything from the architectural principles to the application of the laws of physics in amusement parks.
In this place the museum was opened in 1992. The building has several outbuildings, an IMAX cinema and a scientific one garden. Over 20 years after the opening, the museum was visited by more than 1.75 million people from all parts of Israel; one third of them are students and teachers
There are more than 10 exhibitions in the museum. On the central, "Games of light and shadow", conduct guided tours with a guide for the whole family. It is designed as the Parisian house of Professor Archibald Shadow, researcher, dreamer and collector of shadows. Here you can see amazing, exotic and poetic shadows, dozens of active exhibits and works by leading Israeli artists. Visitors can create, duplicate and layer shadows one on another.
Other expositions of the museum are devoted to water, illusions, electricity, innovations, amusement parks and much, much more . There is a swimming pool in which children and adults can climb to work with interactive displays; all kinds of pens, levers and taps; computer panels . The exhibition "Construction in the sand" is something like an innovative sandbox with a factory for making sand bricks and other fascinating opportunities (at the end of the visitors waiting for a cleaning room with vacuum pumps) . And the station "Blue Blocks" this is a large territory created for experiments with large blocks of various shapes and sizes, like a giant voluminous puzzle .
An interesting exhibition for older visitors is devoted to the Captcha - computer The second variant of the Turing test. In the museum, this question is treated more broadly: from an interactive exposition one can understand where the capabilities of computers end, whether they are capable of creativity, and whether people should be afraid that computers will sometimes overtake us.
Biomechanical exhibition "Machines inside" tells not about cars - more precisely, about animals as machines intended for survival. Here visitors can see dozens of fossils, stuffed animals, moving models, video clips, etc., from which you can find out, for example, how the heart of a giraffe works, how birds rise so high, and which animal is the fastest in the world. The exhibition arrived in the museum from Chicago, from the Museum of Natural History Field
Practical information
Address: the museum is located on the Museum Boulevard, on the territory of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Working time: Monday to Thursday: 10:00 - 18:00, Friday: 10:00 - 14:00, Saturday: 10:00 - 15:00 (in winter), 10:00 - 16:00 (in the summer).
Admission: for adults and children over 5 years: 45 NIS (50 NIS on weekends), family ticket for parents and children under 18: 160 NIS (220 NIS on weekends) (December 2014).