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 ...

Ground was broken last week on the new home of the Exploratorium museum at Piers 15 and 17, two piers on San Francisco's historic northern waterfront at Embarcadero and Green Streets. Developed in two ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco's Exploratorium has been closed since March because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even though you can't physically walk inside the museum, there are still a lot of ...

Installation view of Inflatable: Expanding Works of Art at the Exploratorium Explore, play, and wonder at gigantic, fantastical, artworks at Inflatable: Expanding Works of Art — a new summer ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- As Monday's total solar eclipse approaches, eclipse fever is spreading, but it infected San Francisco's Exploratorium a long time ago. The hands-on museum has been working for ...

After forty-three years in the Palace of Fine Arts near the Golden Gate Bridge, the Exploratorium is moving to a restored pier on the Embarcadero. The move is a big experiment for the museum: how to ...

San Francisco’s Exploratorium is celebrating Pride Month with three consecutive LGBTQ+ themed editions of its weekly After Dark Online events for adults. The first event, on June 3, features 500 Queer ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Sept 13, 2018) - The Exploratorium announced this week the launch of its new Global Climate Change Explorer, a website created to give the public firsthand experience with climate data.

32 years ago, at a staff retreat, Exploratorium physicist Larry Shaw came up with the idea to celebrate pi — the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter — as a fun activity for his ...