A thin window of soap creates an ever-shifting array of colors. Soap film hits the big time at this exhibit, featuring a giant square soap bubble the size of a picture window. The cascading colors you ...

Tinker with your LEGO bricks in a new way—construct whimsical contraptions by combining LEGO with everyday materials. You can playfully investigate topics such as kinetic sculptures, marble mazes, sky ...

New works invite visitors to experience art as a process of experimentation, investigation, and discovery SAN FRANCISCO (October 20, 2026)—This fall, the Exploratorium is expanding its longstanding ...

You may not be able to put a square peg in a round hole—but you can make a square wheel roll on a round road. Square wheels roll smoothly on a surface with bumps of the right size and shape. Using hot ...

Exhibits invite hands-on exploration; we encourage touching, testing, and tinkering! At the Exploratorium, you’ll see no shushing security guards—just our outgoing facilitators. Look for staff in ...

Discover real-time locations of Mars rovers, landers, and orbiters. Developed by NASA, the Mars Relay Network helps us to better understand the red planet by passing information between Earth and ...

Martin Lauber Founder and Managing Partner, 19York Alison Mauzé Philanthropist Mary Hope “MH” McQuiston Vice President, Autodesk Saul Perlmutter Professor, University of California, Berkeley Vijay ...

Sunday (Daytime Members/Donors Only 10:00 am to Noon): 12:00 pm—5:00 pm ...

Sunday (Daytime Members/Donors Only 10:00 am to Noon): 12:00 pm—5:00 pm ...

Happy National DNA Day, which commemorates the successful completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 and the discovery of DNA's double helix in 1953. Published sixty-four years ago in the journal ...

Can you smell time? Your dog can. On a very basic level, so can you: When you crack the lid on that old quart of milk, tentatively sniff and—peeyouu!—promptly dump that foul stuff down the sink, you ...

Our social lives are filled with ritualistic touching: from hugs to high fives to pinky-swears. These acts of interpersonal contact create feelings of connection between people—both literally and ...