This project, entitled Local Color, aims at revitalizing tourism and boosting the local economy, while wedding aspects of history, culture and ecology. Judging from the meager efforts on view here, I don't anticipate that prosperity will suddenly result. A tulip bulb comes in a handsomely textured little box made of, wait for it, compressed cow dung. This a varied display in which the possibly bemused visitor is required to separate the cow dung from the bulldust. But it's well worth a visit.
Texts are in English and Hebrew but the accompanying crowded leaflet is in Hebrew only.
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