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.

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 ...

The city of San Francisco designated ten Living Innovation Zones (LIZs) as a way to improve the Market Street thoroughfare. The Exploratorium was selected to develop the first LIZ. The City gave us ...

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.

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Free Admission for California Public School Teachers. California public school K–12 teachers receive free admission to the Exploratorium. Teachers who qualify will be given one free, nontransferable, ...

To request a pair of general admission tickets to the Exploratorium for your fundraising event, please e-mail a letter of request on official letterhead to donationrequest@exploratorium.edu, citing ...

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 ...

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.

The attraction and repulsion of magnets produces entrancing, unpredictable motion. Patterns of order can be found in apparently disordered systems. This pendulum—a magnet swinging over a small number ...