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

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

Global Climate Change Explorer: Oceans and Water The Heart of Our Climate System Oceans are the heart of our planet’s weather and climate systems. Covering more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, oceans ...

Global Climate Change Explorer: Atmosphere Earth’s atmosphere does many important tasks for us—it shields us from UV radiation, generates weather, and is the very air we breathe. But its ability to ...

Learn about the Artist-in-Residence Program.

Dive into the eclipse with our live telescope feeds and educational programming. Since 1998, the Exploratorium and NASA have worked together to send expeditions to sites around the world to broadcast ...

The arts are a fundamental method of discovery at the Exploratorium.

Exhibits invite hands-on exploration; we encourage touching, testing, and tinkering! At the Exploratorium, you’ll see no shushing security guards—just our outgoing facilitators. Look for staff in ...

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Here at the Exploratorium, you don’t look at exhibits—you play with them. Dance with your own shadow, levitate, touch a tornado, mix colors and break light apart, stop time, start a conversation, ...

"Language is our essential cultural tool–we use it to share experience and so to collectively, jointly, make sense of it.… Language is therefore not just a means by which individuals can formulate ...