Smoke billows at the exploratorium

The Exploratorium is a public science museum located in the Marina District at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, California. It is one of San Francisco's most popular museums, drawing over 500,000 people a year. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 385 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Mushroom cloud Exploratorium ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 385 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Mushroom cloud Exploratorium ... A typical exhibit at a modern science museum. ... A museum is typically a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Palace of Fine Arts The Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco, California is a building originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition. ... City nickname: The City by the Bay Location Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Government County San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Physical characteristics Area      Land      Water 600. ...

Founded in 1969 by the physicist Dr. Frank Oppenheimer, the Exploratorium is dedicated to teaching science through hands-on exhibits. Many of its exhibits are created by visual and performing artists as well as scientists and educators. Exhibit designs that have been created at the Exploratorium often are duplicated for other science museums worldwide. Some exhibits, of course, can't be duplicated such as the off-site Wave organ, a unique sonic experience located on a point of land jutting into the San Francisco Bay. Frank Friedman Oppenheimer (August 14, 1912 – February 3, 1985) was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, was a target of McCarthyism, and was later the founder of the Exploratorium in San Francisco. ...

The Exploratorium has an extensive website with many online science exhibits and experiments, which has received the Webby Award for Best Science Site five times since 1997. The front page of the English Wikipedia Web site. ... Exhibition is a word with several meanings. ... In the scientific method, an experiment is a set of actions and observations, performed to support or falsify a hypothesis or research concerning phenomena. ... Presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, the Webby Awards are a set of awards presented to the worlds best websites. The awards have been given out since 1996. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

A photo of Exploratorium

Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2304x2123, 562 KB)Photographer: Petr Grolmus, Czech Republic Title: Exploratorium Taken on: May 31, 2005, 17:16 Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2304x2123, 562 KB)Photographer: Petr Grolmus, Czech Republic Title: Exploratorium Taken on: May 31, 2005, 17:16 Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...

External links

• Exploratorium official site