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Exhibits invite hands-on exploration; we encourage touching, testing, and tinkering! At the Exploratorium, you’ll see no shushing security guards—just our outgoing facilitators. Look for staff in ...

A thin window of soap creates an ever-shifting array of colors. Soap film hits the big time at this exhibit, featuring a giant square soap bubble the size of a picture window. The cascading colors you ...

Use homemade conductive and resistant play-doh to build electronic sculptures that light up, move, and make sounds. Anyone who has ever tasted play-doh knows that it’s a salty substance. The salt ...

You’ve probably seen an ice skater spinning on the tip of one skate suddenly start to spin dramatically faster. A diver or gymnast may also suddenly flip or twist much faster. This speeded-up rotation ...

Martin Lauber Founder and Managing Partner, 19York Alison Mauzé Philanthropist Mary Hope “MH” McQuiston Vice President, Autodesk Saul Perlmutter Professor, University of California, Berkeley Vijay ...

Strange things can happen when your brain gets confused. Some objects or figures are “ambiguous,” providing visual input that your brain can interpret in more than one way. In this Snack, you’ll ...

A square wheel can roll smoothly—if the "road" is the right shape. A square wheel can roll smoothly—if the "road" is the right shape. A smooth ride on square wheels—amazing, no? This works because as ...

Up close, Posavec’s artwork is a colorful collection of symbols: cyan clouds, magenta lips, yellow suns, black cats, and more. From afar, the experience is very different—walk back a ways and you’ll ...

You may not be able to put a square peg in a round hole—but you can make a square wheel roll on a round road. Square wheels roll smoothly on a surface with bumps of the right size and shape. Using hot ...