29 Facts About Exploratorium

Exploratorium is a museum of science, technology, and arts in San Francisco, California.

The new Exploratorium building is working to showcase environmental sustainability efforts as part of its goal to become the largest net-zero museum in the country.

Exploratorium offers visitors a variety of ways—including exhibits, webcasts, websites, and events— to explore and understand the world around them.

In 2011, the Exploratorium received the National Science Board's 2011 Public Service Science Award for its contributions to public understanding of science and engineering.

Exploratorium is the brainchild of Frank Oppenheimer, an experimental physicist and university professor.

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Exploratorium was blacklisted from academic positions across the country and withdrew with his family to run a Colorado cattle ranch for almost a decade.

Exploratorium received a grant from the National Science Foundation, which he used to build models of nearly a hundred scientific experiments.

In late August 1969, the Exploratorium opened with little fanfare at the Palace of Fine Arts.

Exploratorium relocated from the Palace of Fine Arts to Piers 15 and 17, located between the San Francisco Ferry Building and Pier 39 along the San Francisco Embarcadero, in April 2013.

The Exploratorium holds a 66-year lease on the piers with the Port of San Francisco.

The piers had been neglected for decades leading up to the Exploratorium's move, and extensive renovation and repair were required.

The cafe at the west end of the Exploratorium is named the Seismic Joint in honor of the joint, that cuts through the area of the building where the cafe is situated.

Exploratorium has multiple features designed to reduce its water consumption.

Bechtel Central gallery houses many of the "classic" Exploratorium exhibits, including many of those that have been on display since the very earliest years of the museum.

Exploratorium seeks to bring hands-on inquiry to education, including training teachers in the teaching of science.

Teacher Institute, founded in 1984, is an Exploratorium-based professional development program geared towards middle and high school science teachers.

Two out of three teachers applying were being turned away due to space limitations, by the time the Exploratorium closed at its former location; following the move to the Piers, the Exploratorium has been expanding its professional development for teachers through the Teacher Institute.

The Institute for Inquiry is a professional development program of the Exploratorium geared towards educators, scientists, administrators, and policymakers.

The Exploratorium operates as afterschool tinkering program in partnership with San Francisco chapters of the Boys and Girls Club.

In 2012 the Exploratorium was awarded a grant to create the California Tinkering Network, in collaboration with the Community Science Workshops, Techbridge, the Discovery Science Center, the California Afterschool Network, and the California STEM Learning Network.

Lifelong Learning programs further the Exploratorium's stated dedication to informal learning and the museum as teaching tool, and include day camps, workshops for families, the Homeschool Science series, the Girl's Science Institute, and excursions for adults.

The Exploratorium is home to XTech, a science education program for underserved middle school students.

Exploratorium wanted to provide a visitor experience that was a learning experience in a museum context and allowed for guesswork and the absence of "correct" answers.

Exploratorium felt young people would be more capable than adults at conveying the open-ended experience he was looking for.

Former Explainers often cite their experiences at the Exploratorium as defining elements of their success, including several notable tech CEOs.

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Exploratorium has an equally long history with musical, film and other performances.

In 2007, the Exploratorium was highlighted in the book Forces For Good as one of the 12 most effective non-profits in the United States, and was the only West Coast institution and only museum to make the list.

Online since 1992, the Exploratorium was one of the first museums to build a site on the World Wide Web.

Exploratorium's website is an extension of the experiences on the museum's floor and provides a large number of hands-on activities and exhibits for online-only visitors.