Museum's Day 2015

• The Smiling  Machines retrospective honors Didi Vardi, a veteran Israeli Maker. Dozens of amusing machines and useless devices made of available or recycled materials help us learn about physical phenomena.
• Sesame Street – Fostering Curiosity! Sesame Street and its popular characters visit the Science Museum. Lots of fun activities for the whole family. Visit the TV series set. Take a Sesame selfie. Take a family tour. Challenge yourself… and lots more.

“Smiling Machines”

Didi Vardi, Israel’s veteran Maker, celebrates 30 years of creativity at the BloomfieldScienceMuseum with a new exhibition. The retrospective features dozens of active and entertaining exhibits. Some expose the mechanism that drives them. Some are made of very simple and easily available, recycled materials. Some are funny. Some make us curious. And some encourage us to explore and create.

The exhibit includes a machine that endlessly spins Chinese dishes, a giant yo-yo, a ball machine, a musical bicycle, a walking bicycle, a giant bubble machine, and lots more.

We have a wide range of activities for the whole family:

Automata Workshop

In the spirit of the Maker Movement, you can build devices out of simple materials and take a present home.

Interactive construction

Interactive Environment of Marbles  - Gil-Gula – a modular wooden wall with thousands of holes. Build a wall of marbles using pieces of wood, skewers, planks, marbles, and other simple materials. Work by yourself, with your family, or in teams, and learn some laws of physics at the same time.
 

Fun demonstration -  The Tools Race

From the workshop of Didi Vardi. A surprising and entertaining race of work tools.

The Rube Goldberg Machine

On chol hamoed Pesach we will demonstrate a machine that requires 30 separate actions for the simple purpose of….. cutting toilet paper!

Acrobatic show with audience participation

The Mistorin Theater Group performs Human Machine and reveals the secrets of balance. Three clowns attempt to build a car out of various materials, inspired by Didi Vardi’s machines. Each one is certain that he knows the right way to go about it. While running, jumping, pulling and tugging, they discover to their amazement that they have actually managed to create a balanced ‘human machine.’ Curiosity drives them to try more acrobatic ways to connect the pieces.

3D nature film

­Wings of Life: A celebration of color invites the viewer to take wing with butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, and bats. Fly from flower to flower and help pollinate the amazing flowers that bloom in different parts of the world. See the wonders of nature. Filmed using high-speed and micro cinematography. Produced by Disney Nature Studios. (NIS 10 entrance fee)

Exclusive to the Science Museum: Sesame Street 2015 – Fostering Curiosity!

The staff of the ScienceMuseum collaborated on the new season of Sesame Street and all the episodes were filmed right here. The ScienceMuseum invites you to join your favorite characters and take part in a wide range of Sesame Street activities, tours, and projects on the set where the series was filmed. Have your picture taken on the famous TV street!Take a selfie with your favorite puppets. Take a family tour of the exhibits that feature in the new season’s episodes. Try a challenging assignment at the Sand Factory in SchechterPark. And there’s lots more…