Ned Kahn is an environmental artist and sculptor, known in particular for museum exhibits, one of which is the Exploratorium in San Francisco. His work usually intends to make an invisible aspect of nature, visible.
Kahn, photographed in 2008
Cloud Rings at the Exploratorium
Image: Children's Museum Pittsburgh (25206956535) (cropped)
Image: Avalanche Disk (32374446152)
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.