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Explore, Play, Discover: Websites, Activities, and More
Dive into websites, activities, apps, and more.
Building the Exploratorium at Pier 15: Timelapse
The Exploratorium wasn't built in a day—watch it go up in a minute.
Antarctic Seals
Crabeaters have extraordinary teeth, Weddells are downright cute, and leopards are as fierce as their namesake
Infinity Room: A Temporary Immersive Environment Experiment by Refik Anadol
Where are you in infinity? Try the Infinity Room.
Bird Call Quiz
Listen to bird songs and try to figure out which are songs, which are companion calls, and which are alarms.
Make Your Own Petroglyph
Try your hand at explaining symbols both modern and ancient, and then make your own.
Exploratorium visits the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA
See the JPL "sandbox" where robotic rovers are tested.
Crusty Science: Bread
Join us as we crunch our way through everything from our San Francisco sourdough to Injera and Pugliese.
Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know?
For most of us, science arrives in our lives packaged neatly as fact. But how did it get that way?
Dry Valleys
The nearly ice-free Dry Valleys are an Antarctic anomaly, and Earth's closest equivalent to Mars.
In The Studio
Go into the studio with some of the automata artists from our Curious Contraptions exhibition.
Illusion Songs
A collection of auditory illusions found in indigenous folk practices, popular music, and scientific research.
Solar Images
The more astronomy changes, the more it stays the same. This series of images juxtaposes ancient and modern study of the celestial bodies.
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