Exploratorium's annual light-based art exhibition will feature dazzling new works and fan favorites ...

Get to know the Wave Organ in San Francisco Bay.

Let this gyroscope take you for a spin. Tilt a spinning bicycle wheel while you’re sitting in a swivel chair and—surprise—you’ll start spinning in circles, too. You can also witness the same ...

What's So Interesting About Blood? — A Scientist's View ...

Thank you for attending Wonder Funday 2024. We hope you had a Bay-utiful day at Pier 15! Over 250 kids, parents and grandparents joined in on the fun and embarked on an expedition of the Bay. Together ...

This circular piece of Exploratorium history has held pride of place in π Day festivities since 1988. Footer CTA Visit Join Give Pier 15 (Embarcadero at Green Street) San Francisco, CA 94111 ...

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 ...

Mars in a Minute-How do you land on Mars?

The Exploratorium—Piers 15 and 17—San Francisco, Susan Schwartzenberg ...

Seeing Your Breath: Using Science to Choose the Proper Mask ...

Exploratorium Artist-in-Residence Nina Katchadourian works across various media—including photography, sculpture, video, and sound—incorporating playful juxtapositions and conceptual twists to provoke ...

Suspend a ball in a stream of air. Levitating on an invisible stream of air, a beach ball seems to defy gravity. If you try to pull the ball out, you can feel a force pulling it back in—the same force ...