Explore, Play, Discover: Websites, Activities, and More

How do different sounds combine to make the unique audio environments of specific places? Build the soundscapes of a beach and a train station.

Download desktop wallpaper for your computer.

Stand outside on a sunny day with a watch in your hand, and you can tell which way is north.

Wind tubes are a playful and inventive way to explore the effect that moving air has on objects.

Four downloadable workshop guides for teaching introductory genetics in a museum or other informal education setting.

About Anaglyphs. How do I make 3-D glasses?

The Okeanos Explorer is the newest vessel in NOAA's fleet and the first to be dedicated solely to exploration and discovery missions. Follow along with the scientists and crew on their discovery voyages.

Stories about science, art, and human perception—from 1998. 

The Physics of Skateboarding Tricks

An introduction to the concepts and theories that contribute to contemporary complexity research.

Check out ColorFest, a two-month extravaganza celebrating color at the museum from July 1 to September 5.

A trash-filled median blossoms into a community oasis.

How are creative investigations sparked? What does a state of inspiration feel like? Can inspiration be transmitted from person to person? Join us for an audio slideshow series that explores the fascinating world of how we work creatively.

See links relevant to the themes presented in the Traits of Life exhibition.

An introduction to spectra and to the space-based telescopes. The site includes a number of hands-on activities.

The more astronomy changes, the more it stays the same. This series of images juxtaposes ancient and modern study of the celestial bodies.

Each webcast, the Exploratorium staff and teachers demonstrate their science projects and compete for the title of IRON SCIENCE TEACHER!

The Antarctic food web is the simplest on the planet, and krill are at its hub.

Who lives in the Arctic, and how did they get there?

Introduce students to unique life science activities that let them work with our research-quality microscopic images and videos.

Watch this timelapse video to see a zebrafish develop from a single cell into an embryo

The three most densely populated cities on the planet where seismologists expect major earthquakes are San Francisco, Tokyo, and Istanbul. Find out why the effects in each city will be very different.

A do-it-yourself cartoon kit. It's easy to make pictures move!

Complete an electrical circuit with your body and explore ways to control the flow of electricity.

How good is your friend's driving? You be the seismometer, and find out whether your pal is a smooth sailor or a mover and shaker.

The untold stories behind scientific discovery.

Discover how researchers study climate change and examine the latest scientific data.

An incubator for innovative public space ideas, projects and news

Learn the science behind bad hair days, and learn how hair increases its length when humidity increases, making curly hair frizz and straight hair go limp.

Explore the ideas behind Science of Sharing with these Activities.

Get down and dirty with the surprising science of soil.

Imaginative Designs in Digital and Analog Clothing

How do different sounds combine to make the unique audio environments of specific places? Build the soundscapes of a beach and a train station.

Experiment with rhythm through stepping, a musical dance form that uses the body as a percussion instrument.

What goes on under the ground during an earthquake? Use a Slinky to model the various seismic waves that make the earth tremble.

In this activity, students make bridges using an oil-based modeling clay (plasticene).

They're a menace to ships, but life thrives in these frozen oases.

The Exploratorium is taking it outside to explore natural and human-made phenomena in and around San Francisco. Look for new episodes twice each month.

Use the numbers on four cards to make up equations that equal the number on a fifth card.