In the shadow of the chess game

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Face to Face with My Father (The Chess Players), by Zvika Lachman.

As happens all too often in Israel, the sign makers couldn't get it just right.

One of the cats at Omer Open Museum considered it a good source of shade.
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Here is a Lachman exhibit catalog.
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(Linking to Our World Tuesday.)
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Music of the spheres?

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 Satellite Dish, 1999-2000, by Ofra Zimbalista at the Omer Open Museum.

We have seen two other blue people of this artist: one lady with a flute and one holding a perforated umbrella.
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A lonely blue flute player

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A lonely flute player on the big open lawn of the Open Museum in Omer Industrial Park.

We saw another very blue work by the late Ofra Zimbalista at Beilinson Medical Center.
Remember the bombastic interpretation of the symbolism of her colors that I quoted?

Behind her is one of many hi-tech companies on the campus and the sculpture by Ilan Averbuch called "Wheat in Berlin."

You'll be seeing other creations from the Open Museum collection in future posts.
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(Linking to Our World Tuesday.)
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Sleepy cats share their bench with me

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 I tried not to wake the fluffy sleeping cat, but his was the only bench I could find for my picnic.

The cats at the Open Museum in Omer Industrial Park all seem to feel protected and are laid back and pettable.

And apparently also well-fed because they didn't beg while I sat between two of them and ate my cheese sandwich.
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(Linking to Camera-Critters.)
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The 3-dimensional illusion in historical photos

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For ABC Wednesday, D is for Dina in 3-D glasses.

Dozens of glasses wait for visitors and pupils who come to the Open Museum in Omer.

You can't see them properly, of course, but here are some examples of the big three-dimensional photographs taken in Eretz Israel in the late 19th century.
Here above is Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate when it still had the Ottoman clock tower just outside the Old City wall (the tower was soon torn down by the British in 1922).

This is labeled "Ancient Fountain of the Virgin, Nazareth, Palestine."
It was fascinating to gaze at these pictures; I felt like I was really "in" the scene, mingling with the women and children. 

Fallahin plowing.

"Tiberias, a town of Jewish fisherman, Sea of Galilee"

Please click on the photo and then once again.
You can read how stereographs were made and how American publishing house Underwood and Underwood produced and sold the set about Eretz Israel in 1900, focusing mostly on the Christian market.
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What is a Messerschmitt but doesn't fly?

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Ta-da!  It opens up!
Lihi, the nice guide of the Open Museum at Omer Industrial Park, is proud to show us this special microcar.

It's a 1960 Messerschmitt Isabela, with a 690 cc, 2 piston engine, made in Germany of course.

After the war, the Allies for a time did not allow  Messerschmitt to build aircraft.
In the early 1950s the company turned instead to small motor vehicle manufacture.

The collection of 32 antique cars exhibited at the Omer Open Museum is owned by Eitan Wertheimer, son of entrepreneur and industrialist Stef Wertheimer.
I'll show you some more in future posts. 
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Making circles in the sky

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Can you remember the last time you drew circles with a compass?
From many decades ago I remember the sharpness of the metal point and the pencil lead.

This giant compass welcomes workers and visitors to a hi-tech company, one of many on the sprawling campus of the Omer Industrial Park near Beer Sheva.

Linking to ABC Wednesday and to SkyWatch Friday -- making circles in the sky.  :)
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Bronze bicycle, bare bum

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As promised, here we are at the Open Museum which is part of the hi-tech industrial park near Omer, in the Negev.

This sculpture is especially for today's ABC Wednesday.
B is for bronze bicycle and bare bum.

Too bad BICYCLE is so hard for Israelis to spell.
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The world consists of cogs

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As an old Yiddish proverb says,
The world consists of cogs: one depends on the other.
Di velt iz a hekeleh: ainer darf tsum anderen.

And on the wall, Hebrew idioms using the word "wheel," e.g. "to reinvent the wheel" and "If Grandma had wheels ...."
I found these in a play area for kids in the antique automobile museum at the Omer Open Museum and Industrial Park.
In future posts you will see their nice sculpture garden, a photography exhibit, friendly cats, and of course the old cars.
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