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Israel opens dazzling new Nanoscience and Art Museum Nanoscience and Art Museum...continued from previous page

Who says science and art don’t mix? Bar-Ilan University opens unique museum that
aims to expose visitors to the vast research possibilities in the natural sciences.

By Abigail Klein Leichman, ISRAEL21c.org, July 8, 2021
ow do 150,000 stretchy rub- stitute’s 71 biology, physics, chemistry, A multiscreen work by sound artist Cohen’s research into crystalline for-
ber bands depict the healing engineering and computer science labs. Elad Shniderman and Prof. Moti Frid- mations.
Hprocess of damaged neurons? The inaugural exhibit, “New Lan- man uses 16 violinists to illustrate a Eili Levy created a track for a wa-
How do 16 electric violin players pin- guages,” comprises 13 works co-creat- new scientific discovery about patterns ter drop that moves on hydrophobic
point the moment that synchrony tran- ed over three years. surfaces produced in
sitions to chaos? A wooden arch created by Mah- the lab of Prof. Shlo-
These and other works at Israel’s mood Kaiss with an arabesque motif mo Margel. It’s an
newest museum are brilliant experi- was inspired by nanocrystal structures allegory, Levy says,
ments in what happens when scientists researched in the Light Matters Lab of to the journeys under-
and artists put their talents together. Prof. Adi Salomon. Elad Shniderman’s multiscreen work on chaos theory taken by the human
The one-of-a-kind Joseph Fetter (photo by Michael Amar) soul.
Nanoscience and Art Museum opened in the threshold between synchroniza- Ela Goldman translated Prof.
at Bar-Ilan University’s Institute of tion and chaos. Dror Fixler‘s experiments using gold
Nanotechnology and Advanced Mate- Vardi Bobrow’s rubber-band sculp- nanoparticles as disease detectives in
rials (BINA) on July 8. ture provides a visualization of Prof. the human body into a sevivon – spin-
Displayed in spaces through- Orit Shefi’s discovery of how defective ning top – showing how molecules
out five of the nine floors in BINA’s neurons stretch and grow in the process emit light and then come crashing
three-building complex, the artworks of regeneration. down when they run out of power.
give visitors a dynamic view of the mi- Mahmood Kaiss’ wooden arch inspired by “We ventured on a journey to Celebrating great science
croscopic magic happening in the in- nanocrystal structures (photo by Sharon Goldman) conceptually and technically distant Fixler, BINA’s current director, tells
ISRAEL21c he is de-
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JFEDSRQ.org/SRQSafe how science is relevant
to them,” says Fixler.
“Stretching Boundaries” by Vardi Bobrow (photo by Michael Amar) “Now, everyone in Ela Goldman’s spinning and resting tops carry fluorescent molecules to illustrate Prof. Dror Fixler’s
worlds, which are at the same time our area will know what we are doing experiments using gold nanoparticles to detect disease (photo by Michael Amar)
very close to the essence of our being,” and celebrate with us the great science
says curator Tal Yizrael. we do and understand its importance.”
PRESENTS to the wonderland of the invisible. Like ginning, Fixler says. “We are work-
“In so doing, we opened a window
“New Languages” is just the be-
art, nanoscience delves deep into sub- ing with Tel Aviv University and with
Holocaust Museums

Holoca ust Museums stances and essence, allowing us to dis- other museums on lots of collabora-
cover new phenomena and universes.”
tions.”
Magnificent experiences
Beyond great science

and Memorials Caroline Maxwell used saltwater from BINA’s previous director, Prof. Yuval
and Memorials
Garini, was the visionary behind the
the Dead Sea and the Great Salt Lake
orld
Around the World in Utah, crystallized over several museum, which was funded by the Fet-
Around the W
years through nanometric processes,
ter family.
to create a work based on Gili Taguri-
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