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

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

A brief history of Chichen Itza.

What does it take to block gamma radiation?

Zoom into a fossil chimp tooth.

Watch Venus travel in front of the sun. 

Find out why biodiversity benefits plants and people alike.

The common ground between pickles, cheese, bread, wine, and many other foods.

Your guide to the Northern and Southern Lights (also in 'Observatory')

Students become Internet researchers and learn about NASA satellites.

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

In February 2009, the Exploratorium hosted Darwin Days, a series of presentations, debates, and discussions exploring the ways scientists continue to learn from and apply their knowledge of evolutionary biology to a broad range of pursuits.

A little physics can go a long way on that shortboard.

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

What kinds of candy are made and enjoyed in where you live?

A window on regeneration

Activities and History

Build a stripped-down motor, a simple, easy-to-make version of the electric motors found in toys, tools, and appliances.

The nearly ice-free Dry Valleys are an Antarctic anomaly, and Earth's closest equivalent to Mars.

A multifaceted exhibition that explored genetics and the Human Genome Project from a variety of perspectives from April 8 to September 4, 1995.

Bubbles are round when they float free through air. But what happens when you pack bubbles together?

See links relevant to the themes presented in the Traits of Life exhibition.

Show yourself how a pinch of salt can take the bitter taste away.

Meet the competitors and their humongous pumpkins at Half Moon Bay's Great Pumpkin Festival.

Technological developments have changed how we view Earth. See LandSat images and learn more about our home planet.

In this activity, students make bridges using an oil-based modeling clay (plasticene).

Make a spinning disc called a stroboscope, which lets you create your own animated cartoon.

Play with the stuff that makes dough stretchy.

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

You can make a light painting with a light source, a darkened room, and a digital camera.

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

A fish-eye view of the brain

Can't decide if you're sandy or silty? Try this simple test.

Can a gum wrapper have a story? Discover just how important and meaningful an object can be.

Bone conduction is another pathway to listening.

Make a fantastic toy that shimmers when you shake it.

Grow spikes of crystals in the sun.

Get a taste of how the earth's plates move.

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

Learn how to tie the six knots most useful on a voyaging canoe.

Four downloadable workshop guides for teaching introductory genetics in a museum or other informal education setting.

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

Your guide to the Northern and Southern Lights (also in 'Observatory')