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

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

These unique – and uniquely beautiful – seal species spend their lives amid the sea ice

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

Interact with the Cafe Wall Illusion.

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

Meet a kinetic sculptor.

What do you really know about what you see?

Find out why biodiversity benefits plants and people alike.

How has imagery changed the way we look at our bodies—over time and in different cultures?

Explore the science behind food and cooking with recipes, activities, and archived Webcasts.

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

Decorate your desktop with some of the most intriguing pattern and perception images from the Exploratorium.

Why do teens take risks, and what do our notions of risk tell us about the dangers of growing up?

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

Use live data to check the weather in space, and learn how it can affect us here on earth.

Activities and workshops for playful invention, investigation, and collaboration

Visit an organic egg farm, and see the science behind raising those eggs.

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

Sperimenta interattivamente l'illusione del muro del caffé.

Tour the Breads of the World

Everyone seems to love the sound of their own voice in the shower. That's because a simple shower stall produces some complex sound-altering effects.

Use dominoes to model a nerve cell's transmission of a signal

Everything you ever wanted to know about bubbles, but were afraid to ask.

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

Why is your shadow longer in winter than in summer? Grab a basketball and some paperclips and find out!

Wind tubes are a playful and inventive way to explore the effect that moving air has on objects.

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

A collection of auditory illusions found in indigenous folk practices, popular music, and scientific research.

Your brain is always looking for blank spaces and filling them in. Sometimes, your brain leaps to the wrong conclusion. Then you get a surprise!

Scratch Film, also known as Direct Animation, is the process of drawing and scratching designs directly onto film.

Make a simple musical instrument that sounds like a swarm of buzzing bees when you spin it around.

Wind tubes are a playful and inventive way to explore the effect that moving air has on objects.

These unique – and uniquely beautiful – seal species spend their lives amid the sea ice

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

Commemorate the 1906 quake! Rummage through live earthquake data, subductive science, and more. Learn about earthquakes in Faultline: Seismic Science at the Epicenter

This is an easy grafting project for beginners.

Learn about the body's vital defense force.