
Peter Taylor's Tool Belt
by Steve Gennrich • January 7, 2017
Peter Taylor, Exploratorium Super-Technician, talks about his outdoor installation tools.
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Make a simple rocket and a rocket launcher, and watch a demonstration of how the finished rocket will fly.
What happens when two hockey players collide? Try our hockey collision calculator!
Walk the border with Guillermo Galindo's boundary-breaking artistic work.
Make a spinning disc called a stroboscope, which lets you create your own animated cartoon.
Journey into Chaco Canyon, where ancient people built monuments to the cosmos. Journey to Chichén Itzá, where the Maya built monuments to the sun.
Playing games is a great way to exercise your brain. Even a simple game like Tic-Tac-Toe can teach you about strategy.
Learn about common techniques for peering inside the body in order to diagnose disease and injury.
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.
Can a gum wrapper have a story? Discover just how important and meaningful an object can be.
Learn about the rovers that have been exploring Mars since 2004, and view the amazing images they've taken.
Get mesmerized by choreographer Alonzo King and soundscape artist Bernie Krause.
Check out ColorFest, a two-month extravaganza celebrating color at the museum from July 1 to September 5.
by Steve Gennrich • January 7, 2017
Peter Taylor, Exploratorium Super-Technician, talks about his outdoor installation tools.
Experiment with water, temperature, and light to see what makes a seed come out of its shell.
A downloadable series of graphics from our Faultline website gives a snapshot of seismic science.
Explore the surrounding sounds that everyday objects make. Build a noise contraption from these objects, then add a PicoCricket to automate your contraption. Finally, add a light sensor and program your sound automata to "play" when triggered by light.
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.
Bubbles are round when they float free through air. But what happens when you pack bubbles together?
Your thumb and index finger can help you test a steak's degree of doneness.
Build cantilevers from bamboo garden poles and drinking straws and discover the importance of scale.
by Rob Rothfarb • February 11, 2011
Visitors experienced the sights and smells of "Meta Cookie', an augmented reality installation at After Dark: Get Surreal.
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.
Our bodies contain 30 trillion microbes, a microbiome that seems essential for our well-being.
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.