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.
Main entrance to the Exploratorium at Pier 15
Frank Oppenheimer, founder of the Exploratorium
Outdoors "Rust Wedge" display shows the enormous expansive force of rusting iron
The design scheme for the Exploratorium's Seaglass Restaurant was inspired by the exhibit Color of Water.
A science museum is a museum devoted primarily to science. Older science museums tended to concentrate on static displays of objects related to natural history, paleontology, geology, industry and industrial machinery, etc. Modern trends in museology have broadened the range of subject matter and introduced many interactive exhibits. Modern science museums, increasingly referred to as 'science centres' or 'discovery centres', also feature technology.
Entrance to the Science Museum of Virginia
The Arktikum Science Museum in Rovaniemi, Finland
The Saint Louis Science Center's James S. McDonnell Planetarium
Science Centre AHHAA in Tartu, Estonia
