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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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.

Explore how DNA gets sorted into sperm cells and egg cells. What’s special about sex cells? Figure out how they’re made (in a process called meiosis), and learn why it matters. You will see four ...

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 ...

Guest post by Bárbara Yarza, a designer and educator from Mexicali, Mexico. She loves discovering and making unexpected connections between different disciplines, people, and stories, and her work ...

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 ...

We're currently developing unfacilitated tinkering experiences focused around exploring balance, sound automata, ramps and rollers, and shadow remixes. We'll continue to share updates around what ...

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 ...