Explore your inventive side and celebrate the Tinkering Studio’s new book, The Art of Tinkering, featuring 150 artists and makers. Tinkered attire is strongly encouraged.
The Art of Tinkering is here! To celebrate this essential introduction to the seriously playful world of tinkering, we’ve invited makers featured within and without its pages to share their projects with you.
Look for artworks, films, and activities throughout the museum, and engage your manual curiosity with a wealth of tinkering tools and materials. Meet with makers working at the intersection of science, art, and technology, and get inspired to tinker. That is: to go forth, get stuck, get ideas, and ultimately gain insight into the way things work—on your own terms.
The Art of Tinkering was coauthored by Karen Wilkinson and Mike Petrich, Codirectors of the Exploratorium’s Tinkering Studio. Learn more about the Tinkering Studio and its team.
Schedule
Homouroboros
By Peter Hudson
The Plaza
6:00–10:00 p.m.
Outdoor Gallery
Pole Aerial Photography
With Cris Benton
6:00–7:00 p.m.
Holy Trinity of the Dogminican Order
Modified by Olek
6:00–10:00 p.m.
West Gallery
Flightless: An Interactive, Roaming Puppetry Game
By Dax Tran-Caffee
6:30–9:30 p.m.
Cinema Arts: The Art of Tinkering
Mind Cinema
6:00–10:00 p.m.
South Gallery
Sewing Circuits
With Grace Kim
6:30–9:30 p.m.
Musical Performance by Walter Kitundu
Learning Studio, South Gallery
6:00–10:00 p.m. (intermittent)
Paper Circuits
With Jie Qi
6:30–9:30 p.m.
Tapigami
By Danny Scheible
6:00–10:00 p.m.
Rolling Through The Bay
By Scott Weaver
6:30–9:30 p.m.
Cinema Arts: Stop-Motion Animations
6:00–10:00 p.m.
Central Gallery
Ray Guns
By Mikael Haye
6:30–9:30 p.m.
Speaker Demo
With the Explainers
6:30–9:30 p.m.
Cinema Arts: The Way Things Go
Central Corridor
6:00–10:00 p.m.
Webcast Studio
Ghost Horse
By Michael Brown
6:00–10:00 p.m.
Ship in a Barrel
By Benjamin Perkins Burke
6:00–10:00 p.m.
Eating My Cake and Having It Too
By Benjamin Cowden
6:00–10:00 p.m.
Tipsy
By Nemo Gould
6:00–10:00 p.m.
Cheek-to-Cheek
By Bernie Lubell
6:00–10:00 p.m.
Strobe Flower Lanterns
By Shawn Lani and PJ Reptilehouse
6:00–10:00 p.m.
Chronophotography
By PJ Reptilehouse
6:00–10:00 p.m.
East Gallery
The Papercraft of Otherlife Art
By David Canavese
East Corridor
6:30–9:30 p.m.
Bay Observatory Gallery
A History of the Sky
By Ken Murphy
6:00–10:00 p.m.
Plus many, many Exploratorium exhibits!
