SCHEDULE
Pairings: Ice Cream
7:00 p.m. | Fisher Bay Observatory Gallery 6
Learn to make your own ice cream with Chef Jerrel KeyAuthor and Exploratorium Senior Scientist Julie Yu. Then join Dr. Maya Warren for a tasty tour of the microstructure of ice cream and how structure affects the behavioral properties of all kinds of frozen aerated desserts, as well as the history of ice cream and how innovation is changing the ice cream game. Finally, get a grown-up dose of history with house mixologist Clay Reynold—he'll cover floats (boozy and not) and the history behind the soda jerks of the 1940s and 1950s.
ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING—NO TICKET REQUIRED
Five-Minute Ice Cream Making Demo
6:30 and 8:30 p.m. | Gallery 4 Explainer Station
Work for your dessert: Join Amelia Chen in mixing the ingredients and shake-shake-shaking the mixture into cold and decadent ice cream. Celebrate your efforts with samples of the homemade stuff.
Ice Cream Up Close
6:30–9:30 p.m. | Gallery 4, Bio Bar
What's in your cone? Get the scoop on what's inside your ice cream with Exploratorium staff scientist Denise King. She'll give quick tours of your frozen treat on a microscopic level—before it melts!
Pimm's Cup Ice Cream Float
Serves 1
2 oz. Pimm's No. 1
½ oz. fresh lemon juice
½ oz. mint simple syrup
Seltzer water
Cucumber ice cream*
Place one small scoop of cucumber ice cream in a chilled highball glass. In a shaker, combine Pimm's, lemon juice, and mint syrup. Shake, then strain over ice cream. Top off with cold seltzer water. Garnish with a sprig of fresh mint.
*If you don't have cucumber ice cream, you can substitute vanilla ice cream. In that case, muddle fresh slices of cucumber in the shaker with the other ingredients before shaking.
Explainer Demonstrations
6:00–9:45 unless noted
Various locations throughout the museum
Drawing Board
Ticketing at 6:00 p.m., first come, first served
Osher Gallery 1
Draw hypnotically flowing patterns with a swinging table, and watch friction cause the patterns to slowly shrink along a spiral path. Pick up a ticket to reserve your spot in line for this popular activity.
Speaker Dissection
Bechtel Gallery 3
Tune in to surrounding sounds by experimenting with strings and vibrations, and use electromagnets to build a basic speaker. Learn how to listen with your bones, and explore the workings of the inner ear.
Cow Eye or Flower Dissection (alternating)
Gallery 4
Do cows see color? How does a lens work? Examine the intricate structure of a cow eye to learn about similar structures in our own eyes, as well as some key differences.
Stigma, stamen, pistil, anther, style: Uncover the beautiful architecture of flower anatomy, and gather some surprising strategies that plants use to reproduce.
Magic Demonstration
Osher Gallery 1
Everything is not as it seems—at first. Pick a card, any card, and watch the Explainers reveal some surprising aspects of human perception.
