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 ...

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 (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) ...

In this blog post, I’d like to delve deeper into what happens in this shared idea space of “Ideas are between us”, using the development of Tinker with a View with OctoStudio activities as an example.

At the Exploratorium, we have an exhibit called "Sophisticated Shadows" that explores the pinhole effect, but this felt like an entirely new way to investigate pinholes.The use of multiple colorful ...

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: ...

Activity 1: Naked Egg. Use a giant cell—a de-shelled chicken egg—to explore the comings and goings of cellular substances. Naked Egg is a great beginning activity because it raises questions about the ...

At the Exploratorium booth at this year's Maker Faire, we invited visitors to work together to build five collaborative Rube Goldberg machines over the course of the weekend. On Saturday we set off ...

We’re experimenting with cardboard! In collaboration with our partners in the Brazilian Creative Learning Network as part of the LEGO Tech & Play project, we’re exploring cardboard as a material to ...

Tinkering is more than a collection of activities. It is a constructivist approach to learning based on the premise that all learners are competent and capable of making meaning of the world. As such, ...

You can always get your fix of interactive exhibits at the Exploratorium’s waterfront location. As you walk down the Embarcadero between the Ferry Building and Pier 39 take a right on the public ...

I decided to go the fingerpainting route and to make a glove with a light attached to the fingertip. Here’s where the magic of code and computation comes in; by attaching a micro:bit (a programmable ...