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

Use printable images from our time-lapse movies to make flipbooks–handheld animations that you can make at home.

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

Learn more about the process of making Champagne.

Measure your reaction time with just a meter stick and some help from a friend.

Get outside and explore geometry (and other math) all around you.

Bring movie, TV, and cartoon images to life.

Tour the Breads of the World

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

You may be surprised at the results of this "wimpy" workout.

Learn about the body's vital defense force.

This 2011 conference, hosted at the Exploratorium, explored the role aesthetic inquiry in public interdisciplinary environments.

Close your eyes – and open your ears.

Explore the unknown world inside your brain with these fun activities.

This 2011 conference, hosted at the Exploratorium, explored the role aesthetic inquiry in public interdisciplinary environments.

Build a stripped-down motor, a simple, easy-to-make version of the electric motors found in toys, tools, and appliances.

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.

Learn about the rovers that have been exploring Mars since 2004, and view the amazing images they've taken.

Meet a kinetic sculptor.

An incubator for innovative public space ideas, projects and news

Make your own miniature "Lava Lite."

Want to understand how to predict when the good waves are coming to your shore? It helps to start with the basics behind the formation of ocean waves.

Make a paper model that helps explain the changing tides.

Where is the Center of the Universe? Here, there, and everywhere.

Search a geological map of Ethiopia for fossils.

Los movimientos del ojo hacen parecer que el dise�o brilla.

Build cantilevers from bamboo garden poles and drinking straws and discover the importance of scale.

Saving seeds helps preserve the culture of Native American farmers in the American Southwest and northern Mexico.

How do scientists establish the age of artifacts, rocks, and settlements?

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

Listen to the sound of a rainstorm – anytime, anywhere.

Watch tiny blue, green, and white molds grow on leftover food.

Study ultraviolet radiation from the sun and other sources using UV beads.

Explore new social science exhibits at San Francisco’s Civic Center.

A bicycle, masking tape, paper, pencil, and a little curiosity are all you need to find out how the gears of a bicycle work.

What does it take to block gamma radiation?