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Exploratorium

3601 Lyon Street
San Francisco, CA 94123 map
cross street: Palace of Fine Arts
district: Presidio

Tel. 415.561.0360
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Events Calendar
Wed Aug 05 - Wed Dec 02
Free Day!
Museum admission is free the first Wednesday of every month.... More
Sat Nov 07 - Sun Nov 08
The Exploratorium's 40th Anniversary
Tom Noddy blows bubbles inside of bubbles. Smoke bubbles. Inside-out bubbles. Dodecahedron bubbles. Caterpillar bubbles. Yin-Yang bubbles. He will present Bubble Magic at the Exploratorium, as part of the Exploratorium's 40th Anniversary celebratio... More
Sun Nov 15
Science Writer K.C. Cole at Exploratorium in November
K.C. Cole speaks at the Exploratorium, joined by San Francisco Chronicle’s eminent science editor David Perlman, who knew Oppenheimer and the Exploratorium at its founding. A new biography profiles Exploratorium's fascinating founder Frank Oppenheim... More

About Exploratorium

Housed within the walls of San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, the Exploratorium is a collage of over 650 science, art, and human perception exhibits. The Exploratorium is a leader in the movement to promote museums as educational centers.

This unique museum was founded in 1969 by noted physicist and educator Dr. Frank Oppenheimer, who devoted his efforts to it -- and was its director -- until his death in 1985.

Admission (beginning June 1st):

Members: FREE
Adults (18-64): $14.00
University Students: $11.00
Senior Citizens (65+): $11.00
People with Disabilities: $11.00
Youth (13-17): $11.00
Children (4-12): $9.00
Children Under 4: FREE

Combined admission to the Exploratorium and the Tactile Dome is $17.00.


Hours
Sunday: 10 am - 5 pm
Monday: closed
Tuesday: 10 am - 5 pm
Wednesday: 10 am - 5 pm
Thursday: 10 am - 5 pm
Friday: 10 am - 5 pm
Saturday: 10 am - 5 pm
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Editorial Review
Reconsidered Materials Image
Reconsidered Materials
at The Exploratorium
By Clifton Lemon (03/17/2006)

" This quirky show at San Francisco's exuberant Exploratorium is a special exhibition of over ten artworks made from stuff not normally associated with "fine" art, or with art at all for that matter -- things like styrofoam, carbon, duct tape, retreads, recycled plastic, mayonnaise jars and cupric sulfate, for starters. "

Editorial Review
Mathematica: A World of Numbers and Beyond Image
Mathematica: A World of Numbers and Beyond
By Greg Youmans
By SFS Staff (03/02/2001)

" Few things are scarier than math. Other subjects, art for instance, may be daunting and inscrutable. But faced with difficult art, we can always defend ourselves with our imperious subjectivity, scoffing at an artwork's failure to affect us as intended, or, better yet, accusing a piece of simply not meaning anything. These are harder positions to take when math confronts us in our ignorance. For many of us, math is meaning. And when faced with the austere beauty of a parabola, reducible to a simple equation composed of numbers and symbols — into which the subjectivity and imprecision of language do not even enter! — a person can indeed feel s "

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