Exploratorium

The Exploratorium is a museum in San Francisco, particularly on the teaching of science focused (Science Center). It was founded in 1969 by physicist Frank Oppenheimer, the brother of Robert Oppenheimer. The majority of the exhibits are interactive and designed so that demand directly to the active engagement with the issue on. This interactivity is particularly suitable for the formation acquisition in children, but also reaches adults rather than conventional documentary museum concepts. The Exploratorium is not directed specifically at children. It can be compared with the Mathematikum in Germany, although it across involving different from the Giessen means the natural sciences and the arts.

The hands-on museum has over 400 employees: scientists, artists, teachers, curators, writers and designers. Instead museum leaders to deal with conscious young, knowable by orange vests " explainer ". This conceptual change began in the early phases of the museum and has since spread widely as a model.

By January 2013, the Exploratorium was housed in the Palace of Fine Arts, since April 2013, is in at Pier 15 and 17 on San Francisco's Embarcadero. The historic Pier 15 was added previously been extensively renovated.