Experience the Exploratorium at Pier 15
Experience the Exploratorium. Let your curiosity roam free through hundreds of exhibits in our six spacious indoor and outdoor galleries at Pier 15, San Francisco.
Visit the Exploratorium at Pier 15
The Exploratorium is more than a museum—it’s a gateway to exploring science, art, and human perception with every visit. Let your curiosity roam through more than 700 interactive exhibits in six spacious indoor and outdoor galleries.
Explore, Play, Discover: Websites & Activities | Exploratorium
We’ve been making our own interactive exhibits since 1969. Dive into the Exploratorium's websites, online and at-home activities here.
Museum Map - Exploratorium
Download our visitor map to learn about our galleries.
About Us - Exploratorium
Located in San Francisco, California, the Exploratorium is a public learning laboratory exploring the world through science, art, and human perception. Learn about our unique institution here.
Explore Our Exhibits - Exploratorium
Here at the Exploratorium, you don’t look at exhibits—you play with them.Dance with your own shadow, levitate, touch a tornado, mix colors and break light apart, stop time, start a conversation, capture a wave, explode your mind; it all can (and does) happen here.
Things to Do During Your Visit - Exploratorium
Step inside a tornado, turn upside down in a curved mirror, walk on a fog bridge, and explore more than 650 hands-on exhibits. You'll find all of this and more at our beautiful bayside location.
Glow | Exploratorium Museum Exhibition
Step into the art and science of light … and recharge your winter wonder. Discover luminous artworks that dazzle and surprise: Play experimental LED dungeon crawlers (Robin Baumgarten).Delight in glowing geometries, then fold and build your own (Collective Paper Aesthetics).See real objects float with movie screen technology (Toshio Iwai).Count the craters on a vast glowing moon (Luke Jerram).
Our Story - Exploratorium
We Broke the Science Museum Mold. The Exploratorium was the brainchild of Frank Oppenheimer.At various times, Frank was a professor, a high school teacher, a cattle rancher, and an experimental physicist.
History - Exploratorium
Located in San Francisco, California, the Exploratorium is a public learning laboratory exploring the world through science, art, and human perception. Learn more about the Exploratorium's history here.