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The Exploratorium is a museum of science, technology, and arts in San Francisco, California.Founded by physicist and educator Frank Oppenheimer in 1969, the museum was originally located in the Palace of Fine Arts and was relocated in 2013 to Piers 15 and 17 on San Francisco's waterfront.
The Embarcadero and Green station (also signed as Exploratorium) is a light rail station in San Francisco, California, serving the San Francisco Municipal Railway's E Embarcadero and F Market & Wharves heritage railway lines. It is located on The Embarcadero at Green and Davis Streets, adjacent to the Exploratorium.
Pi Day is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant π (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 (the 3rd month) since 3, 1, and 4 are the first three significant figures of π, and was first celebrated in the United States. [2] [3] It was founded in 1988 by Larry Shaw, an employee of a science museum in San Francisco, the Exploratorium.
Check out 50 of our favorite free things to do in San Francisco, from the most iconic experiences that never get old to some hidden gems that locals might not know about yet.
This list of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Lawrence N. Shaw was born in Washington, D.C., on August 12, 1939, to Wilfred L. Shaw and Ida W. Shaw. [1] Larry's father worked for the Department of Agriculture. The family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in California when he was a year-and-a-half toddler.
In 2003, the City of San Francisco along with the Maybeck Foundation created a public-private partnership to restore the Palace and by 2010 work was done to restore and seismically retrofit the dome, rotunda, colonnades, and lagoon. Within January 2013, the Exploratorium closed in preparation for its permanent move to the Embarcadero.
The two-day fair and its entertainment is planned by the San Francisco Chinese Chamber of Commerce and presents over 80 concessions and booths on the weekend that the Chinese New Year Parade is held. Entertainment includes folk dance, opera, drumming, family photos, giant puppets, [ 95 ] lion dances, fine arts demonstrations, calligraphy ...