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

Learn about scale and structure with eight great activities designed for the elementary classroom.

Explore the ideas behind Science of Sharing with these Activities.

Download desktop wallpaper for your computer.

Find out why biodiversity benefits plants and people alike.

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

Spin the bottle to see beautiful swirling shapes

A model for heart development

Skilled listeners share their secrets.

Enjoy the early memories of some of the visitors to this website.

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.

What do you really know about what you see?

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

Watch old pennies turn bright and shiny right before your eyes!

Your CRT screen may appear to wiggle when you give it the raspberry, but the only thing wiggling is you.

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

Tiny shrimplike crustaceans, krill play a critical roll in many marine food webs, even feeding huge baleen whales.

A model for heart development

Capture the sound of your beautiful voice by singing into a wok.

Exploring the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the oceans

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

You can make sentences without words!

This stuff can't make up its mind -- is it a liquid or a solid?

How many pennies will your bridge hold?

Learn how living things get energy from dead ones in this interactive exhibit.

Get down and dirty with the surprising science of soil.

See a map of recent earthquakes in the United States, and learn why earthquakes happen so frequently on the West Coast.

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

On March 29, 2006, a total solar eclipse occurred when the new moon moved directly between the sun and the earth. The moon’s shadow fell on the eastern tip of Brazil, sped eastward across the Atlantic, through northern Africa, across the Mediterranean, an

Journey into Chaco Canyon, where ancient people built monuments to the cosmos. Journey to Chichén Itzá, where the Maya built monuments to the sun.

When you pick up a baseball, it immediately suggests its purpose: to be thrown fast and with considerable accuracy.

Peter Whitehead is an instrument builder, performer, and composer.

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

What geometric shapes can you find on the playground?

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

Explore gluten, the substance that gives bread its structure.

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

Investigate the interior angles of polygons with your feet.