Current AIR James Allister Sprang, selected through last year's first open call, is developing a large-scale sound ...

Legend has it that one day in the fall of 1969, Frank Oppenheimer was standing in the cavernous Palace of Fine Arts, tinkering with one of the exhibits he had invented for the hands-on science museum ...

The Exploratorium, San Francisco's acclaimed science museum, has decided to eliminate 80 of its 435 paid positions after attendance in the four months since it opened at its new waterfront location ...

The Exploratorium has been an integral part of the San Francisco experience for more than 50 years. The museum was conceived by Frank Oppenheimer, a former physicist, college professor and high school ...

Throughout the month of July, the Exploratorium will present a diverse range of offerings and lunar programming as part of the ongoing celebration of its 50th anniversary, as well as that of the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (July 31, 2018) - In advance of the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, the Exploratorium is hosting a month-long series of events about the world's oceans, focusing on ocean ...

At the “Give Heart Cells a Beat” exhibit, a visitor's heart rate is sent as an electrical signal from handlebar sensors to a lab dish of living heart cells, located behind a window a few feet away.

San Francisco's Exploratorium, one of the nation's most successful science and technology centers, has just opened its brand new location. Spencer Michels reports on how the center's hands-on teaching ...

At the Exploratorium, one does not stand stiffly in front of musty exhibits and read tiny placards. There is no room for boredom or passively observing. The installations at this interactive science ...