Exploratorium
Palace of Fine Arts
3601 Lyon Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
415-561-0360
(general information)
415-561-0362
(Tactile Dome reservations)
Open Tuesday—Sunday
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
 Closed Mondays (except certain holidays). For details, visit our events calendar.
Easily accessible free parking.
The Exploratorium is an experimental, hands-on museum designed to spark curiosity—regardless of your age or familiarity with science. Touch, pick up, and tinker with hundreds of exhibits. Your curiosity will guide you to endless discoveries!
More about the museum.
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40th Anniversary Celebrations
Enjoy uniquely Exploratorium events, a downloadable music-related podcast series, a film series (starting in 2010), and lots more.
Join us at After Dark, an evening series for adults held the first Thursday of each month, and enjoy cutting-edge performances, films, and more.
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How will you find your way out? Take an only-at-the-Exploratorium interactive excursion through the Tactile Dome, a dome of total darkness with only your sense of touch to guide you.
What do stem cells, fruit flies, and zebrafish look like under a microscope? See them and more at our state-of-the-art Microscope Imaging Station and explore life through the lens.
Are you good at faking a smile? Are you a snoop? Experiment with thinking and feeling at Mind, a collection of exhibits that illuminate the science, art, and experience of our inner lives.
How do you sort through the “sonic soup” of human speech, natural noises, machinery, cars, and music we live in? Investigate your perception of sound at Listen: Making Sense of Sound.
Do we see things as they are or do we see things as we are? Explore more than 70 Seeing exhibits that focus on how we interpret the world through our eyes, brain, and our own subjectivity.
What are the essential elements of life, and how can you distinguish between the living and nonliving world? Explore these questions and more at our collection of life science exhibits, Traits of Life.
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