Welcome
to The
Exploratorium - always in motion, the busy hub of an active community.
We offer stimulating lectures, demonstrations, films and activities to
invigorate your enthusiasm for natural and perceptual phenomena. Join
our studio audience for live Webcasts featuring exciting locales,
science competitions, robot races, and more.
Click here
for a calendar of events.
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W H A T ' S N E W?
DIVE INTO THE SONIC SOUP
Listen: Making Sense of
Sound, a major new
5000-square-foot Exploratorium exhibition, three years in
the making, features over fifty-five interactive exhibits,
forty of them brand new. This exhibition is a place to
listen as a deer does when you try on alternative ears and
learn the ways the shape and orientation of an animal’s ears
affects the sounds it hears. Or, like a snake, listen with
your teeth and jawbone – turns out you don’t even need ears
to listen at all! Navigate an underground train with a blind
person as your guide. Swap the soundtracks of well-known
movies to uncover the powerful influence of sound in
creating mood. Listen combines the active,
engaging and dramatic experiences for which the
Exploratorium is famous, such as a jukebox of very unusual
music, or a 1950’s “eavesdropping” hairdryer hood, with far
more contemplative sound environments. Listen: Making
Sense of Sound is included in the price of admission
to the Exploratorium.
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DID YOU KNOW that artists—as well as exhibit developers,
educators, and scientists—created many of the museum’s
exhibits? Since the Exploratorium opened in 1969, art and
science have complemented each other on the museum floor.
Ask about our Self-Guided Arts Tour to learn more about art
exhibits throughout the museum.
"Best
Museum and Best Family Outing"
Citysearch.com,
San Francisco
Check out some of our
interactive
exhibits online that will expand
your mind and ignite your imagination! Location
The Exploratorium is located near the Golden Gate Bridge in the
historic Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco's Marina District.
The Exploratorium is wheelchair accessible. For information,
call (415) EXP-LORE.
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Reverse Ears
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San Francisco Exploratorium
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OPEN TUESDAY
- SUNDAY
10am - 5pm
Closed Monday (except select
holidays)
Closed Thanksgiving & Christmas Day.
REGULAR TICKET
PRICES*
Adults (18-64) $14
Senior citizens (65+) $11
People with disabilities $11
College Students (with ID) $11
Youth (13-17) $11
Children Ages 4-12 $9
Children Under 3 FREE
*First Wednesdays of the month FREE.
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