Lunada

The story

Lunada is a children's museum in the Nahal Ashan neighborhood, close to the Tuviyahu high school and the children's park, in a large building in which a branch of “Havayeda” was previously housed. It was built in 2015 and is named after the brothers Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel, who donated five million dollars to the Beersheba municipality for its establishment. The center and its contents were initiated, created and developed by the company “Playpus” headed by Tamar Hadar and Efrat Adiv, and the design and the planning of the installations were done by Yael Tavet and Roi Roth. The museum is intended for children from the age of a year and a half to the age of twelve and for their parents, and it is the first in the country whose areas are multi-age and were planned so that a whole family, over a wide range of ages, would find in them a shared interest. Entry to it is without shoes, in order to induce calm and a homely feeling. On its three floors, over four thousand square meters, are eight areas and more than fifty activities: “Seeing the World”, with a maze, a globe on which animals are attached according to their place of living, a climbing wall with the names of mountains and their heights and a space maze; the “Moving” areas, for the development of gross motor skills, among them a dark room through which laser beams pass and ball cannons; an art and music area, with a wall that serves as a giant coloring page of famous paintings; an area of emotions and self-expression; and a languages area, in which the same picture appears with a caption in Hebrew, in Russian, in English, in Arabic and in Amharic, and at a station in it the child reads passages from the Declaration of Independence and is filmed. At the foot of the museum the children's park extends over fifty-four dunams, and at the entrance stands a long sculpture of cylinders arranged according to the colors of the rainbow.

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