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

What are the best materials for frames? What are the best designs?

Visit the Outdoor Exploratorium at Fort Mason to explore the science behind wind, waves, and more.

What happens to meat when you cook it?

Learn how some vibrant seniors exercise their minds, and find out what you can do to help your own memory.

Discover the difference between taste and smell.

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

Activities and History

Explore an interactive map.

An introduction to the concepts and theories that contribute to contemporary complexity research.

A profile of frog researcher Dr. Tyrone Hayes.

What's at fault?

Each webcast, the Exploratorium staff and teachers demonstrate their science projects and compete for the title of IRON SCIENCE TEACHER!

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.

Learn how eyes work, and watch a cow's eye dissection. Then follow step-by-step instructions to do a cow's eye dissection yourself.

Download desktop wallpaper for your computer.

Here are some activities that test your memory – and some things you can try to help you remember things better.

The 18,000-foot Mt. Parinacota presents some fitness challenges for climbers.

An evening of wine, food, and talk.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at activities and ideas we’re exploring.

Find links relevant to research at the poles.

From May 20 to June 5 1997, we presented a webcast series exploring the art and science of severe storm visualization.

What do you really know about what you see?

Use the Science Journal mobile app to investigate movement.

Find out about bicycle brakes and balance, and calculate your stopping distance on a bicycle.

Could your own brain betray you?

Learn how Hubble Telescope scientists put together those lovely pictures.

Sit down for compost tea with a visionary cultivator.

Use printable images from our time-lapse movies to make flipbooks–handheld animations that you can make at home.

Using baking soda and vinegar, you can pop a plastic bag with the power of fizz.

In celebration of Albert Einstein's work in 1905, science laboratories and museum around the world (including the Exploratorium) participated in a twelve-hour webcast that explored Einstein's influence on current physics research.

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.

Explore the process of extracting DNA from Neanderthal bones.

Can your eyes fool your nose? Find out with this experiment.

Explore the science of baseball, skateboarding, surfing, hockey and cycling.

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

Each webcast, the Exploratorium staff and teachers demonstrate their science projects and compete for the title of IRON SCIENCE TEACHER!

APE was a four-year Exploratorium project to explore strategies and tactics to shift the role of visitors from passive recipient of information to active participant in the exhibit experience.

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

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

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

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

What do you really know about what you see?