About Exploratorium
The Exploratorium in San Francisco is an interactive science center founded in 1969 by physicist Frank Oppenheimer. A pioneer of hands-on museums, it draws visitors of all ages with more than a hundred thousand experiments that invite you to explore the natural sciences firsthand. Instead of traditional guides, young explainers in orange vests assist guests. Originally housed in the Palace of Fine Arts, the museum has been located in the renovated Piers 15 and 17 on the Embarcadero since 2013. This innovative concept, which combines science, art, and education, served as a model for later institutions such as the Mathematikum in Giessen and the Extavium in Potsdam.
Based on the article “Exploratorium (San Francisco)” from the German Wikipedia, summarized and rephrased by a language modelLicense CC BY-SA 4.0
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- Pier 15 Embarcadero at, Green St
94111 San Francisco, USA - Phone
- +14155284444
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- visit@exploratorium.edu
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- 37.80168° N · -122.39731° E
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Along the Embaradero in between the Ferry Building and Fisherman's Wharf, The Exploratorium was the first interactive science museum in the world, and remains perhaps the best. The converted pier is filled with intriguing interactive experiments about nearly every branch of the natural and social sciences. If you're lucky, they'll conduct one of their most famous (and fascinating to most children) demonstrations: the dissection of a cow eyeball. The exploratorium also includes the Tactile Dome, a maze that you explore in pitch darkness, using only your sense of touch.
Source: Wikivoyage, „San Francisco/Fisherman's Wharf“ · authors per page history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · as of 3/17/2018