The Exploratorium in San Francisco is one of my favorite museums. I have visited the museum dozens of times since I was a child. I also worked there as an explainer for two summers as a teenager. I highly recommend the Exploratorium to anyone who is interested in science.
The Exploratorium was founded in 1969 by Frank Oppenheimer, brother of Robert Oppenheimer, the inventor of the atomic bomb. Both Robert and Frank were blacklisted in the 1950s, during the McCarthy era, for their involvement in the communist party. Frank decided to make something good of the rest of his life by founding the Exploratorium, the world's first hands-on science museum.
The Exploratorium is housed in the Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina. This is the only one of 18 remaining buildings which were build for the Pan American Exposition in 1915. Since its inceptiion, the museum has grown considerably. Now it contains over 1000 exhibits.
The museum is divided into several sections, including weather, animal behavior, vision, sound, heat and temperature, electricity, and light and color. Most of the exhibits are hands-on, meaning that the viewer can play with them to see how they work. Children love the Exploratorium for this reason.
I had the privilege of working at the Exploratorium as an explainer for two summers. We wore orange jackets with name tags and were assigned to a particular section of the museum for an hour at a time. We went around to visitors and explained and demonstrated various exhibits to them. There were also two demonstrations we performed, a helium-neon laser and a cow's eye dissection.
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