SAN FRANCISCO (April 11, 2025) – The Exploratorium is proud to be a partner of San Francisco Climate Week, presented by Climatebase, and host a series of engaging events, including the keynote by Vice ...

The Exploratorium is a portal to the astonishing scientific phenomena that animate our world and shape our actions. We create extraordinary learning experiences that ignite curiosity, upend ...

Shawn Rowe carries out research related to the intersections of everyday and STEM ways of knowing and thinking. With a background in applied linguistics and developmental psychology, his work has ...

Visitors can look forward to wandering through light-filled spaces that blur the boundaries between what’s real and what’s imagined. Be prepared to question your own eyes as light shifts, distorts, ...

You will see four different images, each showing a starting cell and four sex cells (eggs or sperm) generated from the starting cell through meiosis. All four images are correct, but they represent ...

Latinx+ Engineering Day is part of the Exploratorium's ongoing commitment to inclusivity and representation in STEM education. The event is designed to be accessible and engaging for all, regardless ...

In this blog post, I’d like to delve deeper into what happens in this shared idea space of “Ideas are between us”, using the development of Tinker with a View with OctoStudio activities as an example.

Tinkering Inventive Play Sets (TIPS) As part of this network, in addition to our recent light and shadow idea shares, we've been developing playful learning experiences we're calling Tinkering ...

SAN FRANCISCO (August 31, 2023) – The Exploratorium’s acclaimed public project Middle Ground: Reconsidering Ourselves and Others will celebrate its latest installation on September 14, 2023 with a ...

Kelli Anderson is an artist/designer/tinkerer who draws, photographs, cuts, engineers, prints, codes, and creates kinetic and interactive work. She has taught at The School of Poetic Computation, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (July 12, 2023) – The Tactile Dome, the Exploratorium’s iconic and largest interactive exhibit, is reopening to the public on July 15, 2023. Visitors are invited to once again journey ...

At the Exploratorium booth at this year's Maker Faire, we invited visitors to work together to build five collaborative Rube Goldberg machines over the course of the weekend. On Saturday we set off ...