Laura Zander is a strategic, results-driven executive with deep expertise in financial leadership, operations, and organizational effectiveness.

The Exploratorium is excited to invite the public to Bay Day, our annual celebration of the San Francisco Bay and ocean ...

Like a lot of people right now, my workspace looks a little different. I prototype on the kitchen table instead of in the Tinkering Studio, and I’ve essentially stopped ever taking out the recycling ...

In 2021, the LEGO Foundation started a community of practice called the LEGO Playful Learning Museum Network (PLMN). A shared commitment to playful learning binds our 22 member institutions together: ...

How effective is voting? In this video we explore some of the ways in which the democratic process can go wrong.

As a tinkerer-in-residence at the Exploratorium I’ve been playing with putting a computational spin on tinkering activities like light painting. When I started to tinker with light painting, I kept ...

Some existing projects that meet the ‘ufte’ criteria that are currently at the museum include marble machines, circuit boards and animation station. Although creating new experiences is pretty tricky ...

Composer Wayne Grim makes naturally occurring data into music. Grim began experimenting with sonifications of data gathered here on Earth, within a stone’s throw of the Exploratorium: traffic patterns ...

Last month the Exploratorium was the target of a cyber attack. This is an account of what we think happened and how we dealt with it. The story begins on September 6, when an Exploratorium staff ...

Guest post by Casey Federico, an early childhood educator based in San Francisco. Her passions include supporting Bilingual and Bicultural families, teacher-led professional development, fighting for ...

Over the past few months, we've been prototyping a tinkering activity using LEGO pieces to construct balancing sculptures. We're currently putting the idea on hiatus for a while as we prepare for an ...

Having been exposed to the Glowforge in the Tinkering Studio, I wondered how the children might experience having their sea animals cut out and engraved in wood. The teachers and parents agreed to ...