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Working With Artists

The mission of modern science museums is evolving. I hear more and more about the importance of deeply engaging visitors and communities, encouraging innovation, and fostering the development of...

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Learning from Research

While most science museum educators value the importance of scientific research in untangling and illuminating the world around us, it remains the case that research on informal learning itself is not...

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Meet The Explainers

The Exploratorium’s High School Explainers have been working on documenting their experiences at the Exploratorium in a series of excellent short videos published online. Here’s a sampling of the first...

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Student Made Exhibits

A small group of teachers from High Tech High in San Diego have recently begun planning for an extraordinary student project. Starting next year, highschoolers in their classes will learn by creating...

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Giant lasers, super vacuums and the search for gravity waves

Most ExNET exhibit sets can be found at science and discovery museums in the center of cities, but every rotation cycle we ship one set out to Louisiana, far from any large metropolis, to a very high...

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Prototyping New Ideas: Zoetrope and Cycloid Station

ExNET has been working on designing two new activities for our traveling tinkering show, and I recently had the opportunity to join forces with the Exploratorium Tinkering Studio team to prototype them...

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The Passing of The Torch, The Exploratorium Gets New Explainers

Here in San Francisco the rains have just started. That’s how I know that summer is officially over. The days are getting shorter, the tourists have gone home, the children have started school, and the...

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Color Uncovered: The Exploratorium’s First iPad App Takes Off

Color Uncovered, the Exploratorium’s very first iPad app, was released last week and was quickly downloaded by scores of curious users. It currently sits at #1 for free educational apps, much to the...

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Arkansas Takes On Tinkering

Visitors wandered in to The Museum of Discovery’s new tinkering studio this month for the first time, some pulling rambunctiously on their parent’s shirt sleeves, while others poked around with...

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Arkansas museums gather for tinkering

The Exploratorium is working with museums across the state of Arkansas to create spaces for open ended making at the intersection of art, science, and technology. While the studios’ infrastructure is...

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