See yourself as others see you in this cylindrical mirror. A flat mirror will always reflect an image that's right side up and reversed right to left. A cylindrical mirror can produce images that are ...

You don’t have to be a climate scientist to teach climate change, and you don’t have to be an experienced storyteller to infuse climate content with stories. Explore these educator resources for using ...

Jim is a high school science teacher from Mercer Island, Washington, and nationally respected learning researcher. His experience was of great use in our teacher programs, especially for the Teacher ...

The late Philip Morrison was an astrophysicist and Institute Professor at MIT, and was also a book review editor for Scientific American. Together with his wife, the late Phylis Morrison, a noted art ...

Liza Fior is founding partner of muf architecture/art, which negotiates between the built and social fabric and public and private spaces, generally in urban areas. She was recently involved in the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (December 2, 2025) – The Exploratorium is delighted to announce James Allister Sprang as its next Artist-In-Residence (AIR), following the museum’s first-ever open call for the program.

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Denise Middleton (formerly King) currently holds the position of Director of Exhibit Development at the Exploratorium. In her role, she promotes curiosity, humility, and rigor in exhibit development ...

Use your voice to make visible patterns in sand. Sand scattered on a large metal square vibrates and jumps in response to the sound of your voice. When you hit just the right note(s), the sand ...

It's all done with mirrors. Touching the spring seems easy, but the image of a spring is made by a big curved concave mirror. Light from a real spring bounces off the mirror to form the image you see.

Gas Model is a transparent plastic cylinder with bouncing balls activated by a vibrating plate. The moving balls lift a disk to a height which depends on the amount of energy introduced by the ...