We offer Nonmembers and Members of all ages and interests a variety of fantastic things to do and create! Bring the whole family to the museum to explore some of our most popular demonstrations, or take to the outdoors with excursions that let you see a different side of hands-on science. Enjoy brand-new family and adult art workshops—plus much more!
Excursions:
Join Exploratorium educator Ken Finn for Exploratorium-style learning and fun out and about in San Francisco. Please note!: Because our excursions take place in public locations, children are not permitted to attend without a participating, paying adult. Excursions are $15 per person, and preregistration is required.
Flower Dissections
Saturday, February 25, 10:30am - 12:00pm
As we walk through San Francisco's largest garden—Golden Gate Park— we'll explore flower anatomy and learn about reproduction. Everything you need to dissect the flowers will be provided.
Black Sand Treasure Hunt
Saturday, March 17, 10:30am - noon
Search for elusive "black sand" (aka the magnetic mineral magnetite) at Ocean Beach. Tools and materials are provided, and you'll go home with black sand, magnets, and an activity sheet so you can make your own miniature Black Sand exhibit.
Family Investigation Workshops:
Please check back for more information about fall 2012 family investigation workshops.
Get ready to be hands-on and minds-on with your family. You may have seen our popular cow’s eye and heart dissections at the museum, but with Family Investigation Workshops you and your family are invited behind the scenes to do these same hands-on explorations with us. Each family workshop will feature one of the activities from our award-winning Exploratopia publication and will focus on practicing the “Tools for Exploration” found in the book. These tools can be used anywhere, anytime, to actively explore the world.
Open to families with children ages 7 and up.
Adult Programs:
Build a Working Coffee-Can Robot
Sunday, March 4, 9:00 a.m. - Noon
Three Sundays: March 4, 11, and 18
Open to Ages 16 and up
In this series of three classes taught by Michael Shiloh, you will build a robot based on the popular and easy-to-learn Arduino microcontroller system. Using a variety of simple sensors, you will program your robot to sense the world around it and to navigate autonomously. You will learn how to extend your robot by adding other sensors or actuators. All hardware is provided; please bring your own laptop for programming.
Michael Shiloh has a BSc in electrical engineering and computer science. He’s been a consultant to artists, inventors, designers, and others, often creating unusual devices and contraptions. In 2005 he founded Teach Me To Make, an educational organization dedicated to the principle that technology and construction techniques should be open, public, and accessible to all. In addition to teaching at workshops around the world, Shiloh teaches classes at several Bay Area colleges.
$270 Non-members / $240 Members
Girls Programs:
Check out our 2012 Spring Break Camp for Girls.
Please check back for more information about fall 2012 workshops.
Excursions, Family Investigation Workshops, and Adult Programs are an exclusive benefit available only to current Members of the Exploratorium.
Members receive free admission every day, along with many other benefits!
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