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

This new version of an old game will bend your brain.

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

Is it just a glorified plank with roller skate wheels on it? Or is it a highly engineered device through which kids have reclaimed the urban landscape, bringing creativity and style back to the sterile asphalt spaces of sprawl?

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

Far north in the night sky, a faint glow appears on the horizon. Green and red flames of light stretch across the sky.

The brightest buds get all the glory – but they're not just for show.

The only continent without any countries or government . . .

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

Pickling is the art of manipulating the microbial garden in foods.

Listen to bird songs and try to figure out which are songs, which are companion calls, and which are alarms.

Join us as we crunch our way through everything from our San Francisco sourdough to Injera and Pugliese.

Make your own refracting telescope from a pair of reading glasses.

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.

Learn the science behind bad hair days, and learn how hair increases its length when humidity increases, making curly hair frizz and straight hair go limp.

Meet a kinetic sculptor.

Activities and History

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

Explore our media collection

Join us as we crunch our way through everything from our San Francisco sourdough to Injera and Pugliese.

Pick one and guess the source

View the full eclipse visible from China in 2008.

Join the Exploratorium on the playa in Black Rock Desert and explore the science of pyrotechnics, flight, dust devils, rainbows, and more.

An artist paints his childhood home from memory.

Make a scale model of the Solar System and learn the REAL definition of "space."

anatomy of a skateboard, skateboard tricks, types of skateboarding, physics glossary.