Carasso Science Park, Science museum in Beersheba, Israel

Carasso Science Park is a science center in Beersheba featuring interactive exhibits and outdoor experimental installations. The park offers visitors of all ages hands-on opportunities to explore and test scientific concepts.

The park developed from a vision to strengthen Beersheba as a science communication hub. A historic building on the grounds dates from the Ottoman period and was originally used as an educational institution.

The name honours the Carasso family, who funded the park alongside the Rashi Foundation, the Beersheba municipality and the Ministry of Education. Inside, a gallery called the Avenue of Nobel Laureates presents prizewinners, and another exhibit shows scientists portrayed on banknotes. A large pipe organ built by Gideon Shamir, formerly kept at the home of composer Ami Maayani, was donated to the museum in 2020.

The site covers 17 dunams on the Gustav Levan campus in the Old City, alongside Beit Yatziv and the Meof school for gifted pupils. Exhibits fill buildings from the Ottoman, Mandate and state periods, while outdoor installations and fountains stand in the courtyard. Part of the museum occupies the 1914 school building for Bedouin children.

The grounds include a FabLab where visitors can work with advanced 3D printing technology and design their own creations. These workshops allow people to transform their ideas into real objects.