Experience the Exploratorium. Let your curiosity roam free through hundreds of exhibits in our six spacious indoor and outdoor galleries at Pier 15, San Francisco.

Download the PDF file containing the cipher wheels.; Copy and cut out the two wheels. Place the smaller wheel on top of the larger wheel and rotate them so your "key letter" on the small wheel is ...

Answers to questions about COVID safety, planning your visit, accessibility, food and more at the Exploratorium's beautiful bayside location at Pier 15, San Francisco.

At the Exploratorium, we’re passionate about curiosity-driven learning, science, and art. We create extraordinary exhibits, projects, programs, and events that ignite curiosity and cultivate the ...

Here’s a cow’s eye from the meat company. The white part is the sclera, the outer covering of the eyeball. The blue is the cornea, which starts out clear but becomes cloudy after death. Step 2: ...

You’ve probably seen an ice skater spinning on the tip of one skate suddenly start to spin dramatically faster. A diver or gymnast may also suddenly flip or twist much faster. This speeded-up rotation ...

One of the most exciting exercises I ever did as a kid was to make a scale model of the Solar System. Most of the pictures in my books made the distance between planets seem small and easy to travel.

Make models of the earth and moon. Make a model Earth by rolling out a small ball of green or blue clay. The ball should be between ½ to ¾ inches (about 1.5 to 2 cm) in diameter (click to enlarge ...

Materials. Here is a list of useful parts if you want to experiment with paper circuits at home. Essential materials. Conductive thread Thread that is made of either steel or silver will conduct ...

The pneumatic tire and the chain drive, followed by the development of gears, revolutionized bicycling in the later 1800s. In the last fifteen years, there has been a revolution of sorts in the ...

The Sun and moon aren’t really the same size, of course: the Sun is 400 times the diameter of the moon. But it’s also 400 times farther away from us, and this relationship between size and distance ...

Model the carbon cycle and its principal reservoirs and flow rates using rice. Understanding the carbon cycle is fundamental to making sense of environmental changes such as global warming and ocean ...