Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem is a national science museums in Israel, although it is clearly aimed at children. If you think about it, this has a special meaning.

Tiny Israel took first place in the world in the number of engineers, scientists and scientific publications per capita. That science has helped create a thriving here agriculture, electronics, medicine, alternative energy. Israeli higher education is valued throughout the world.

In 1992, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem supported the proposal of the famous physicist and neuroscientist Professor Peter Hellman to establish a special museum, which exposition roused to curiosity and interest in science among children. The project is financially supported by wealthy and influential Canadian family Bloomfield. By zavedёnnoy traditions museum was named after its main benefactor.

Today the museum exposition covers an area of ​​five thousand square meters and focuses on a few major themes: physical phenomena, computers, hydraulic engineering, mechanics, electricity. The main principle - interactivity: buttons and levers exhibits you can touch, turn, pushing and see what happens in this case. In children, it makes an indelible impression, pull them out can be difficult.

The first thing the visitor sees at the entrance - a huge granite ball on the water bed. Current water lowers the coefficient of friction so that the six-ton ​​ball can turn even a child, and children, of course, do not miss this opportunity. Here, in the courtyard of the museum - swimming pools, which demonstrates the principle of operation of hydraulic devices (great attraction for hot weather, you can sprinkle in plenty).

The exposition dedicated to the nature of light, the children paint the graffiti on the walls of light, create animated movies. In a special room you can see the mirror once a hundred of their own reflections. The exhibition, dedicated to communications, demonstrates the two phones, the United transparent optical cable: seen as running lights on it, symbolizing the sounds.

Enormous popularity of the mechanical section, based on - a whopping kinematic design, is set in motion by the rotation of wheels and levers. Here - the cinematic theater "Jukebox": from the wreckage of old furniture created moving and singing design, Hieronymus Bosch inhabited by characters, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Krylov.

Next to the museum is located amusement park, where you can not only ride on a roller coaster, but to know what force does not allow them to fall to the tourist what is happening on the carousel at a trajectory flying thrown ball. Perhaps admiring the child for the first time to hear the word "Newton's laws." Hear - and be interested.