Masks and vaccinations are recommended. Plan your visit
Thursday, October 7, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Launch into the unknown—learn about curious objects in outer space.
Thursday, September 30, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Find your aha moment at the Gold Beams Social Club.
Thursday, September 23, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
An evening focused on California's charismatic and ecologically important sea otters.
Thursday, September 16, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Spark your curiosity at After Dark.
Thursday, September 9, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Dig into innovations that were once the stuff of imaginative conjecture.
Thursday, September 2, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Tonight, we turn our attention to human breath.
Thursday, August 26, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Spark your curiosity at After Dark.
Thursday, August 19, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Dive beneath the surface of the Bay—what do you find?
Thursday, February 3, 2022 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Spark your curiosity at After Dark!
Thursday, January 20, 2022 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Bring fresh eyes to old favorites and uncover phenomenal new experiences.
Align yourself with eclipse science in our video archives.
Exploring the natural, built, and social landscapes.
Bringing strangers together in public space.
Bringing relevant, timely STEM learning experiences into Arabic-speaking classrooms and homes.
Innovating ways to bring the outdoors indoors.
In this program, join filmmaker James Q. Chan as he shares his current documentary project, Chinatown Stories: You are Here, and premieres a new episode.
Vaccines contain genetic material—but can they change your genetic material?
Find out why a vaccinated person might still spread COVID-19.
Guest post by Casey Federico, an early childhood educator based in San Francisco. Her passions include supporting Bilingual and Bicultural families, teacher-led professional development, fighting for equity in early childhood, and tinkering for all ages.
Thursday, February 17, 2022 • 6:00–10:00 p.m.
SOLD OUT. Sip your science at a very Exploratorium pop-up experience: Science of Cocktails @ After Dark.
No matter how you slice it, you don’t want to miss Pi (π) Day.
Friday, February 18, 2022 • 1:00 p.m. PT
Mars Mission team members discuss how Perseverance has spent its first year on Mars,
Guest post written by Ryan Jenkins, co-founder and managing director of Wonderful Idea Co, an experimental studio that explores art, science and technology through making and tinkering. Ryan was a core member of the Tinkering Studio from 2009 to 2017 and is excited to return for a new project with the team to develop open-ended, unfacilitated (or lightly facilitated) tinkerable experiences using a wide range of tools and materials.
Thursday, February 10, 2022 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Discover the creative ways in which the natural world gets it on.