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The Exploratorium provided a form of "educational sightseeing" as well as the understanding of the underlying principles. [22] [23] The exhibits were arranged and structured to allow for free access to any part of the museum. Instead of tour guides, fifteen to twenty college students or secondary students, as well as some adults, were employed ...
The Exploratorium campus comprises 330,000 sq ft (31,000 m 2) of indoor and outdoor exhibit space and includes 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) of freely accessible public space. The exhibits are housed in and around Pier 15, which extends over 800 ft (240 m) over the Bay. [14] The Exploratorium at Pier 15 was designed by architectural firm EHDD. [15]
The Exploratorium and Larry Shaw utilized STEAM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Art, Math) to help visitors understand the world, long before the STEAM (or STEM) acronym was used. [ 8 ] "He loved to help people realize they are capable, and that they can get involved in areas of human thought that they thought were closed to them," said his wife.
Cloud Rings at the Exploratorium Some examples of Kahn's work to capture the invisible include building facades that move in waves in response to wind; [ 11 ] [ 12 ] indoor tornadoes and vortices made of fog, steam, or fire; [ 13 ] and a transparent sphere containing water and sand which, when spun, erodes a beach-like ripple pattern into the ...
Isabel Trecco Hawkins (born 1958) is an Argentine-American astronomer and science educator. Formerly a researcher in the isotopic composition of the interstellar medium and on the cosmic microwave background at the University of California, Berkeley, her interests have shifted to science popularization, as a senior scientist for the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Janis Paige (born Donna Mae Tjaden; September 16, 1922 – June 2, 2024) was an American actress and singer.With a career spanning nearly 60 years, she was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
The Wave Organ Audio recording of the Wave Organ in September 2011. The Wave Organ is a sculpture located in San Francisco, California.It was constructed on the shore of San Francisco Bay in May 1986 by the Exploratorium, [1] and more specifically, by installation artist and the Exploratorium artist-in-residence Peter Richards, who conceived and designed the organ, working with stonemason ...
In 1980 he began teaching evening courses for the general public at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Hewitt left both the Berkeley and Santa Cruz campuses of the University of California , choosing instead to move to Hawaii to teach at the University of Hawaii at their Hilo and Manoa campuses.