SAN FRANCISCO (February 28, 2025) – Get ready for a stellar celebration as the Exploratorium marks its 38th annual Pi Day on ...

Wave Organ is a wave-activated acoustic sculpture located on a jetty that forms a boat harbor in the San Francisco Bay.The concept was developed by Peter Richards and was installed in collaboration ...

Take off and fly in a mirror that makes half your body look whole. Here’s an exhibit where watching is at least half the fun. Positioned at one end of this large flat mirror, you can create any number ...

Light projected through a drop of salt water reveals an abundance of life. Plankton Drag Footer CTA Visit Join Give ...

Edmark’s 3-D printed sculptures, called blooms, animate when spun under a strobe light.

In Search Of Universals In Human Emotion with Dr. Paul Ekman ...

Use a microscope to investigate live embryos—developing eggs—from zebrafish. Here you can see inside living zebrafish embryos, watch their blood circulate, and compare your own pulse to theirs.

Using a calculator at the exhibit you can divide the number chips by the number of crossings. The more chips you throw the closer this ratio gets to pi. This surprising method of calculating pi, known ...

Scientific American and Exploratorium present: You Make It Happen with Ken Finn (Loop de loop) ...

Explainers are stationed throughout the Exploratorium doing structured and open-ended demonstrations. Ask an orange-vested Explainer to help you explore.

“If you take a child through a museum and you show them a marble statue they’ll appreciate it, but it’s very doubtful they’ll go home that night and start chipping away at a marble slab. But everyone ...