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

A downloadable series of graphics from our Faultline website gives a snapshot of seismic science.

Learn about bike gears using thread spools and a rubber band.

Get down and dirty with the surprising science of soil.

Explore mechanical elements such as cams, levers, and linkages to create your own moving sculpture.

In this memory game, a mental journey through your own house helps you remember items on a list.

Listen to bird songs and try to figure out which are songs, which are companion calls, and which are alarms.

Explore our app and measure the time of your life.

Watch Venus travel in front of the sun. 

Make a simple rocket and a rocket launcher, and watch a demonstration of how the finished rocket will fly.

Search a geological map of Ethiopia for fossils.

Interact with the Cafe Wall Illusion.

Just how do we remember a face?

Using baking soda and vinegar, you can pop a plastic bag with the power of fizz.

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

Use this handy conversion calculator to convert between the many units found in recipes.

Heat-trapping gases play a major role in polar climate change.

Have you ever wondered what makes blue cheese blue, or why some cheeses are hard and others soft?

Explore light, shadow, and motion using a variety of simple materials and light sources.

Activities and History

APE was a four-year Exploratorium project to explore strategies and tactics to shift the role of visitors from passive recipient of information to active participant in the exhibit experience.

A naked egg is an egg without a shell. Using vinegar, you can dissolve the eggshell without breaking the membrane that contains the egg.

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

What brings archeologists and astronomers alike to this ten-mile canyon in remote New Mexico?

Vsit a quirky kitchen where you can compose music with ordinary (and not-so-ordinary) objects.

The lure of Terra Australis Incognita begins with the Ancient Greeks and ends with modern cruise ships.

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

Take a virtual journey to the frog capital of the world, Rayne, Louisiana.

Why is baseball so popular in Japan?

Try these low-cost, teacher-tested activities for the classroom and the curious.

Read stories and see footage from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

Think you have a lot in common with a kiwi fruit? Genetically speaking, you do.

Grow spikes of crystals in the sun.

For most of us, science arrives in our lives packaged neatly as fact. But how did it get that way?

Come with us to Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico, which is rich with thousand-year-old artifacts of the ancient Pueblo culture and contains sites that appear to have been astronomical observatories.

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

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

Tour a hydroponic greenhouse in frozen Antarctica.

Discover secret colors hidden in a black marker!

Learn about the inner workings of a cell through this interactive exhibit.

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