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

Explore mechanical elements such as cams, levers, and linkages to create your own moving sculpture.

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

Summertime in the Arctic is for the birds

What happens when two hockey players collide? Try our hockey collision calculator!

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

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.

Artist Bob Miller's Light Walk at the Exploratorium will change the way you look at light, shadow, and images.

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

How are creative investigations sparked? What does a state of inspiration feel like? Can inspiration be transmitted from person to person? Join us for an audio slideshow series that explores the fascinating world of how we work creatively.

What's in that cup of coffee anyway? Find out about the history and chemistry of coffee.

Learn about the inner workings of a cell through this interactive exhibit.

Search a geological map of Ethiopia for fossils.

A Scribbling Machine is a motorized contraption that moves in unusual ways and leaves a mark to trace it's path.

Interact with the Cafe Wall Illusion.

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.

A naked egg is an egg without a shell. Using vinegar, you can dissolve the eggshell without breaking the membrane that contains the egg.

By passing the winter frozen as solid as a holiday fruit cake, the wood frog breaks all rules. Scientists hoping to preserve human organs are paying close attention.

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

A fish-eye view of the brain

Do hot water and cold water mix?

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

Tinker with electricity using common objects: batteries, lights, buzzers, motors, switches, etc.

Make a paper model that helps explain the changing tides.

Read stories and see footage from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

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

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

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.

How can something as light as air slow down a hit?

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.

Richter and beyond

Come along as we explore the cool, dark world of cheese.

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

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

The lure of Terra Australis Incognita begins with the Ancient Greeks and ends with modern cruise ships.

High energy prices got you down? Discover how pickles can ease your troubles.

Make yourself giant or tiny with a snip of the scissors.

Activities and workshops for playful invention, investigation, and collaboration

Learn how to bridge the digital generation gap