Keep your viewers intrigued and engaged with the Exploratorium as your filming backdrop. Located along the historic Embarcadero, the Exploratorium provides a beautiful venue for your indoor or outdoor ...

Meet some of the remarkable creatures that call the Bay home during a day of hands-on science, live demonstrations, and ...

Students gain valuable experiences while making and tinkering. Educators can use this framework to notice, support, document, and design assessments for student learning—and to reflect on how your ...

Free livestream, museum watch party, and comprehensive online eclipse guide bring one of nature's most spectacular events to ...

Check out the Tinkering Studio blog for a behind the scenes look at activities and ideas we're exploring.

Now we have great tools like spreadsheets to do the numerical computations for us. Below you can download OpenOffice (or Libre Office), Apple Numbers or Excel format files. In these spreadsheets, you ...

It’s all in the way you look at it. Short pieces of chenille stem arranged inside a box look like a random jumble of line segments—until viewed in the proper perspective. Note: This activity is detail ...

Cells that can grow in vitro, like HeLa cells, may divide rapidly and indefinitely. With this Snack, you can figure out how long it would take for HeLa cells to grow to cover the city of San Francisco ...

We bring outstanding artists, scholars, authors, and scientists to the museum as Osher Fellows through the generosity of the Bernard Osher Foundation. Osher Fellows work with Exploratorium staff on ...

Additional Resources Want to bring DIY Exhibits into your home or classroom? See EXHIBLETS: A Guide for Creating Museum-Style Exhibits in Community Spaces, created for practitioners. What do visitors ...

Explore winds, tides, and natural phenomena. The guiding principle of the Gallery 5 is to support and expand the Exploratorium’s role as a community museum dedicated to awareness. Helping to reinvent ...

From The Inquisitive Cook, by Anne Gardiner and Sue Wilson with the Exploratorium (Henry Holt and Co., 1998). Water temperature for activating yeast designed to be mixed with the dry ingredients in a ...