Legend has it that one day in the fall of 1969, Frank Oppenheimer was standing in the cavernous Palace of Fine Arts, tinkering with one of the exhibits he had invented for the hands-on science museum ...

The Exploratorium museum announced Monday that it had reached a net-zero energy goal, which they said makes it the largest museum to do so in the United States. Sitting along Pier 15 in San Francisco, ...

A new mobile app from San Francisco's Exploratorium science museum lets users dig into the science behind the most extraordinary celestial event of the year: the total solar eclipse that will sweep ...

On April 17, the new Exploratorium opens on Pier 15, boasting 330,000 square feet of metaphysical playgrounds and more than 600 exhibits — both indoor and outside — that serve as a testament to ...

Kwan Liu Ma, director of the UC Davis Center for Visualization, co-developed an interactive exhibit that uses data visualizations and touch interactions to allow users to explore plankton populations ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom was joined by other state officials in San Francisco's Exploratorium museum on Friday morning to announce a ...