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

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Tour the Breads of the World

Take a peek at the colorful world of plant sex.

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

Make a paper model that helps explain the changing tides.

A model for heart development

Close your eyes – and open your ears.

In 2009, the ECHO (Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations) Partners hosted a national symposium held at the Exploratorium to discuss the effects of climate change on the planet. You can watch archived webcasts of the symposium.

Art/science teams explore the underlying systems that give the San Francisco Bay Area its unique character.

What does it take to block gamma radiation?

Listen to internationally recognized authorities on human thought and behavior, including Temple Grandin and Paul Ekman.

Play with the stuff that makes dough stretchy.

Rube Goldberg-inspired cause and effect contraptions using everyday materials and found objects.

Zoom into a fossil chimp tooth.

Cuatro exposiciones lo suficientemente pequeñas para caber en tarjetas postales.

What does it take to block gamma radiation?

From 1977 until 2003, the Exploratorium published a quarterly magazine. The Exploratorium Magazine Online is a companion to selected issues of the print magazine, providing key articles and activities and including multimedia features.

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

What's really going on when you bake? Find out.

Explore gluten, the substance that gives bread its structure.

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

A rock-climbing physicist explores the mechanics of his hands.

Activités pour la classe élémentaire.

There are about 500 dispatches from scientists working in the Arctic and Antarctica, along with original videos, photos, webcasts, and articles.

The majority of Barrow residents are indigenous people who live both traditional and modern lives

See living stem cells and find out why they are the "stem" from which all other cells develop.

Make a fantastic toy that shimmers when you shake it.

A series of talks celebrating both the historical and contemporary dimensions of the Eames design legacy.

With polarized light, you can make a stained glass window without gla

Explore the ideas behind Science of Sharing with these Activities.

On Saturday, May 6th, 2000 we hosted a live panel discussion and webcast to explore the amazing phenomena of Star Trek.

What do you really know about what you see?

In an earthquake, some older structures collapse and others stand tall. The difference is usually retrofitting.

Join the Exploratorium on the playa in Black Rock Desert and explore the science of pyrotechnics, flight, dust devils, rainbows, and more.

Try your hand at explaining symbols both modern and ancient, and then make your own.

See for yourself how the tilt of the earth's axis results in what we experience as the seasons.

Use your naked egg to experiment with osmosis, the movement of water across a membrane.

Bring movie, TV, and cartoon images to life.

How does drafting help a cyclist? What is skin friction?

Discover the secret colors hidden in black ink. With a paper towel, a black marker, and a cup of water, create a rainbow of colors while exploring capillary action and chromatography.

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

Explore the deadly beautiful world of carnivorous plants.

It's easy to fold a sheet of paper in half. But can you fold a sheet of paper in half ten times?

Polarized light passing through sugar, water "rotates" to reveal beautiful colors.

Looking at the night sky can help you see how your eyes and brain make sense out of moonlight.