A new mobile app from San Francisco's Exploratorium science museum lets users dig into the science behind the most extraordinary celestial event of the year: the total solar eclipse that will sweep ...

Cakes that look like a museum’s Mondrians. Seawater cocktails served atop an exhibit on icy bodies of water. And optical illusion cupcakes that mess with your mind. These days, no self-respecting ...

The multi-sensory exhibition will be on view through Sept. 13, bringing over 50 exhibits, activities and artworks to San ...

Legend has it that one day in the fall of 1969, Frank Oppenheimer was standing in the cavernous Palace of Fine Arts, tinkering with one of the exhibits he had invented for the hands-on science museum ...

The Exploratorium, San Francisco's acclaimed science museum, has decided to eliminate 80 of its 435 paid positions after attendance in the four months since it opened at its new waterfront location ...

In the 1974 Academy Award-nominated documentary “Exploratorium,” the camera zooms in on a hypnotic spiraling “Depth Spinner,” an exhibit designed to show how the eye and brain process motion (and make ...

SAN FRANCISCOSAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco’s Exploratorium science museum is holding a groundbreaking ceremony at what will be its new home along the city’s waterfront. The ceremony is scheduled for ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- En route to becoming one of the first and largest zero net energy museums in the world, the Exploratorium itself is an exhibit. While we know and love the award-winning ...

At the Exploratorium, one does not stand stiffly in front of musty exhibits and read tiny placards. There is no room for boredom or passively observing. The installations at this interactive science ...