The Exploratorium, located in San Francisco, is a world-renowned, playful learning laboratory of provocative exhibits and experiences that ignite curiosity and transform the way people learn.
Happy Bike to Work Day, San Francisco Bay Area!
How do you like our NEW bike? It’s a Camera Obscura Rickshaw Bicycle. With the help of a small pinhole, visitors take a ride in the back and see the world fly by, upside-down and projected on the walls inside the rickshaw.
Want to learn more about Bike to Work Day? Details from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition here: http://www.sfbike.org/?btwd
Photo by Gayle Laird
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Confused Sea exhibit
Photo by Amy Snyder
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Tinkerer’s Clock, created by tinkerer Tim Hunkin for the Exploratorium’s new home at Pier 15 and located at our Tinkering Studio, is normally at rest folded up on tower, but lights up and unwinds itself at the top of every hour.
Photos by Amy Snyder
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Rotating Lath House, a new Outdoor Exploratorium exhibit on Pier 15.
Exploratorium Fog Bridge interactive sculpture created by artist Fujiko Nakaya
Photos by Gayle Laird and Thomas Humphrey
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Happy Bike to Work Month Bay Area! From inside our new full-body immersive Recollections exhibit.
Photos by Alex Smith
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We are open! On April 17, 2013, the Exploratorium reopened at Pier 15 in San Francisco. In celebration of our big reopening Obscura Digital enveloped our new home in stunning animation, two nights in a row, April 17 and 18.
Watch and learn more about Obscura Digital’s animation creation and process for the big opening here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2ZMH1XIxBI
At our new campus we have tripled our size. We now have 330,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor gallery areas, including 1.5 acres of free-access civic space. With 150 brand new exhibits, over 600 total, three times the capacity for teacher training, four times the space for meetings, workshops, and camps, and the benefit of being accessible from every direction by public transit, our educational reach will dramatically increase. We are located a short 10- to 15-minute walk from San Francisco’s Ferry Building.
Photos by Amy Snyder and Lowell Robinson
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Giant curved bench in front of a giant curved mirror = a flat #reflection. #exploratorium
“I took a trip to Ohmega Salvage over the weekend, and ended up the proud owner of two broken doorbells, one oven knob, 25 mismatched drawer pulls, one suitcase handle, one doorknob and 14 handles. Now what can I make with all this junk? There must be something …”
(via making faces | The Tinkering Studio Blog | Exploratorium)
The Exploratorium’s new Algae Chandelier created by exhibit developer Denise King. #getsbetterwithage!
Photo by Gayle Laird
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Reggie Watts explores new Exploratorium digs at Pier 15 in San Francisco.
Photos by Dana Goldberg
The Exploratorium’s new doors at Pier 15 are open and celebrations go all day and into the evening til 11pm tonight. Come on down!! #exploratorium (at Exploratorium)
Can you believe it?! #3daystilopening
Exploratorium Geysers exhibit at Pier 15.
Photo by Alex Smith
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Good times! @reggiewatts rocking out at the #exploratorium gala
