¡Únete a nosotros para celebrar a los portadores y artistas de la cultura nativa de California! Aprende sobre el arte y la ciencia de su conexión con la tierra y el agua y explora tu propia relación ...

SAN FRANCISCO (April 11, 2025) – The Exploratorium is proud to be a partner of San Francisco Climate Week, presented by Climatebase, and host a series of engaging events, including the keynote by Vice ...

In December last year, the Tinkering Studio made its long-awaited return to the Exploratorium’s series of 21+ evening events called After Dark. For it, we wanted to honor the latest iteration of the ...

Shawn Rowe carries out research related to the intersections of everyday and STEM ways of knowing and thinking. With a background in applied linguistics and developmental psychology, his work has ...

Tinkering isn't just for kids—it’s a powerful learning tool for adults too. Try building balancing sculptures as a way to get started tinkering for yourself.

SAN FRANCISCO (September 11, 2024) – On Saturday, September 28, the Exploratorium will host its annual Latinx+ Engineering Day in partnership with the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) ...

Unspoken Principles: "Ideas Are Between Us" When our Tinkering Studio team is engaged in R&D to develop new activities, some unspoken principles guide us. One of them, I’d like to call "Ideas are ...

Since last year, we've been doing some interesting R&Ds on light and shadow using the CPX, and I wanted to document and share some project examples here. CPX, which stands for Circuit Playground ...

In 2021, the LEGO Foundation started a community of practice called the LEGO Playful Learning Museum Network (PLMN). A shared commitment to playful learning binds our 22 member institutions together: ...

The three activities below show one example of an “activity sequence”—a set of phenomenon-based explorations organized in a way that helps students delve into a complex concept, progressing from one ...

Building on our Tinkering At Home balance activities and online workshops, our team has been engaging in creating a playful balance tinkering experience for the Tinkering Studio. Visitors get to try ...

Some existing projects that meet the ‘ufte’ criteria that are currently at the museum include marble machines, circuit boards and animation station. Although creating new experiences is pretty tricky ...