¡Únete a nosotros para celebrar a los portadores y artistas de la cultura nativa de California! Aprende sobre el arte y la ciencia de su conexión con la tierra y el agua y explora tu propia relación ...

SAN FRANCISCO (April 15, 2025) – The Exploratorium is thrilled to announce the first-ever Open Call for its esteemed Artist-In-Residence (AIR) program. Since the program’s inception in 1974, the ...

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 ...

Exploratorium to celebrate 38th annual homegrown holiday alongside a lunar eclipse SAN FRANCISCO (February 28, 2025) – Get ready for a stellar celebration as the Exploratorium marks its 38th annual Pi ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (October 15, 2024) – This winter, Pier 15 will once again shine brightly as Glow returns on November 21, 2024. Our much-anticipated annual exhibition invites visitors of all ages to ...

Explore how DNA gets sorted into sperm cells and egg cells. What’s special about sex cells? Figure out how they’re made (in a process called meiosis), and learn why it matters. You will see four ...

SAN FRANCISCO (September 11, 2024) – On Saturday, September 28, the Exploratorium will host its annual Latinx+ Engineering Day in partnership with the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) ...

Unspoken Principles: "Ideas Are Between Us" When our Tinkering Studio team is engaged in R&D to develop new activities, some unspoken principles guide us. One of them, I’d like to call "Ideas are ...

In 2021, the LEGO Foundation started a community of practice called the LEGO Playful Learning Museum Network (PLMN). A shared commitment to playful learning binds our 22 member institutions together: ...

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, ...

Visitors are invited to immerse themselves in total darkness for a unique sensory adventure SAN FRANCISCO (July 12, 2023) – The Tactile Dome, the Exploratorium’s iconic and largest interactive exhibit ...