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Best Job for Teens
Award Winner 2006

Cuisine(s): Coffeehouse, Tea
Hours: Sun,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat 10am-5pm

Description

World-class science museum with tons of hands-on activities for children and mystifying exhibits for everyone, including the popular Tactile Dome.

"Traits of Life"

Daily

A major exhibition area with 30 biology exhibits and demonstrations that help visitors understand the fundamental elements common to all living th...
Outdoor Exploratorium

Daily

Did you know that when the Golden Gate Bridge gets hot, it sits low in the saddle? Course you didn’t: You don’t have a Bridge Thermometer, which lo...
"The Physics of Toys"

11:00 a.m. third Sat. of every month

Investigate the science behind toys at this monthly event.

2006 | Best Job for Teens

Some people spend the rest of their lives trying to recreate the perfect work atmosphere they enjoyed as a teen in the Exploratorium Explainer Program. While most of us have memories of demeaning service jobs to look back on, former Explainers get a happy, nostalgic look in their eyes when they remember working at the science museum. Something about the Exploratorium's afternoon, weekend, and summer helper gig is different from the fast-food experience. "We try very hard to get a very unique... More »
2005 | Best Extrasensory Experience

The Tactile Dome is a splendid place to suspend your overutilized sense of sight and rely instead on more primal antennae. Housed in a large geodesic dome in the middle of the Exploratorium interactive science museum, the dome is itself the hands-on experience in extremis. The interior is a pitch-black maze of tubes, chutes, and chambers that you slide, crawl, and bump through, the surrounding shapes, textures, and circumstances changing at every turn. The experience forces you to depend on... More »
2003 | Best Crazy S.F. Place to Take Out-of-Towners

Dr. August Coppola (Francis' brother and Nicolas Cage's dad) designed this touchy-feely 1971 oddity -- a one-way maze inside a geodesic dome that you must feel your way through, in complete darkness. Coppola built the attraction so that one must climb, crawl, slide, and fall to get to the end, encountering surprising and delightful textures and objects along the way. The Tactile Dome is located inside the Exploratorium, and you must make reservations and pay a bit extra to get into it. It's... More »
2002 | Best Place to Cop a Feel

Like a tunnel of love with credibly educational overtones, the Tactile Dome will have you crawling, sliding, and climbing side by side with the object of your affection in complete and total darkness. Go ahead, reach out and grab something. The whole point of this fantastic 1971 exhibit is to reacquaint visitors with the remarkable and too often neglected sensation of touch. As you clamber through the maze, housed within a geodesic dome (or Bucky Ball, as we like to call them), your body is... More »

Exploratorium After Dark: Gastronomy

By Lou Bustamante | Mon, April 2, 2012

Where: Exploratorium, 3601 Lyon Street (at Marina) When: Thurs., April 5th, 6 p.m.-10 p.m. Cost: Free with general admission to museum; 18 and over The rundown: The big brains at the Exploratorium&nb... More »
Pi in Your Face

By Silke Tudor | Wed, March 07, 2012

Mathematically speaking, pi is transcendental, irrational, and deliciously random. It is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. It never ends, and it never repeats, but only 39 decimals of pi are needed to calculate a circle the si... More »
Love and Science

By Ruby Perez | Wed, January 25, 2012

We've become a bit leery of the more easy-to-come-by Valentines day gestures: flowers, anatomically incorrect heart-shaped cards, chocolate -- no, scratch that, we like the chocolate. But still, if you're seeking something different, here's the Ul... More »
Science of Cocktails Night Returns; Chemically Bonds Drinks and Education

By Lou Bustamante | Mon, January 23, 2012

Combining science and liquor together into a frothy and delicious drink requires the brainpower of the Exploratorium's scientists, and bartending know-how from the Bay Area's best bars. The resulting ... More »
Four Out of Five?

By Michael Leaverton | Wed, January 04, 2012

It’s been our experience that a few drinks will benefit any game of Rock Paper Scissors, because then you don’t feel quite so adolescent as you bang away over some trivial decision, like who gets to sit where in the speedboat. On that front, After... More »
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