The Exploratorium’s new home is at Pier 15 on San Francisco’s Embarcadero


continue to resonate in the museum and science education fi elds even now, 27 years after his death.


What is its aim? At the Exploratorium, the goal is to change the way the world learns. By combining science, art and


perception, we’ve created active, per- sonal explorations of our natural, social and digital worlds. The Exploratorium’s philosophy is inquiry-based and experiential: Question everything. Learn by doing.


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Fun exhibits include (left) a string squirter; (centre) seeing and listening; (right) a drip chamber


Show, don’t tell. And the best answer is often another question. By sharing this philosophy and our knowledge and programmes with museums and schools the world over, it has produced some of the world’s most innovative exhibits, as well as generations of critical thinkers, with more still to come.


Why was a new site opened? Principally, we ran out of space to do our work. The new location places the Exploratorium at the heart of the San Francisco waterfront, at the gateway to the City and at the nexus of public transit, radically improving educational access to all. Previously, two out of three teachers had to be turned away from the Exploratorium’s nationally rec- ognised Teacher Institute – considered one of the premier professional train- ing opportunities for K-12 science and maths teachers in the Bay Area and


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