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2nd Skin: Imaginative Designs in Digital & Analog Clothing

Science, technology, art, and fashion converge at a runway fashion show at the Exploratorium on Friday, April 25, 2008, 7-11pm. The 2nd Skin Clothesline Exhibit debuts that evening; the event also features two artists at work on their creations. If you miss the opening, artists' works will to be highlighted around the museum for five months,from April 26-September 7, 2008.

Video release date: 2008-03-31
Running Time: 00:03:50

Related Website: Second Skin

More Info:
  Press Release
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Mind: A Major Exhibit Collection with 40 New Exhibits

Preview the Exploratorium's Mind exhibit, an exhibit collection four years in the making.

In Mind, you are the exhibit. Experience your own thoughts, feelings and actions in provocative and unexpected ways in this major new 5000-square-foot collection. Discover insights into how you make decisions, the kinds of things you do (or don’t) pay attention to, and the changing landscapes and intriguing effects of your own emotions. Mind is made possible with the support of the National Science Foundation.

Video release date: 2008-03-01
Running Time: 00:04:14

Related Website: Mind

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  Mind Press Kit
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Celebrating the Anniversary of Pi Day at the Exploratorium

3/14 at 1:59 pm It's also Einstein's Birthday From San Francisco to New York, in museums, universities, classrooms and in the privacy of one’s own home - and of course on Second Life - people are celebrating Pi. In 2008, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Pi Day, an international holiday born at San Francisco’s Exploratorium.

Video release date: 2008-02-20
Running Time: 00:04:05

Related Website: Pi Day

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  Press Release: 20th Anniversary of PI Day March 14, 2008
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Scalable Cities

Artist Sheldon Brown creates an urban/suburban/rural environment in which the visitor literally "paints" the flying landscape with highways, buildings, and automobiles. This exhibit was part of the Virtual Unreality exhibition.

Video release date: 2008-01-01
Running Time: 00:02:10

Related Website: Virtual Unreality

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  Press Release: Virtual Unreality Interactive Digital Artworks
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Total Solar Eclipse: More Images from Turkey

Live program from Side, Turkey Images from the Total Solar Eclipse that took place on March 28-29, 2006.

Video release date: 2008-01-01
Running Time: 00:03:34

Related Website: Total Solar Eclipse
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Aeolian Landscape: Press Video

An clip of the Aeolian Landscape exhibit by artist Ned Kahn. Blowing air sculpts sand into an ever-changing landscape.

Video release date: 2006-01-10
Running Time: 00:00:11

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Zebra Fish Development

Witness the amazing development of live embryos at the microscope imaging station, part of the Traits of Life Collection.

Video release date: 2006-01-10
Running Time: 00:00:51

Related Website: Microscope Imaging Station
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Exploratorium B-Roll Sample

This short preview clip of the larger B-Roll video has footage of the Exploratorium, inside and out, including scenes of children interacting with museum exhibits.

Video release date: 2005-01-10
Running Time: 00:00:35

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San Francisco in Jell-O

This wobbly luminescent sculpture by Liz Hickok is both art work and a simulation of how a San Francisco neighborhood might jiggle when the Big One strikes.

Video release date: 2005-01-01
Running Time: 00:00:40

Related Website: Faultline: Seismic Science at the Epicenter
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TV PSA: Thermodynamics

A humorous look at thermodynamics at the Exploratorium, part of the Exploratorium's "For the Curious Ones" campaign.

Video release date: 2005-01-01
Running Time: 00:00:26

Related Website: Visit The Exploratorium
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TV PSA: Surgery

A humorous look at interactivity in the operating room, part of the Exploratorium's "For the Curious Ones" campaign.

Video release date: 2005-01-01
Running Time: 00:00:31

Related Website: Visit The Exploratorium
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