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| Caption | The Exploratorium is an experimental hands-on museum designed to spark curiosity – regardless of your age or familiarity with science. With hundreds of exhibits to touch look through pick up and tinker with let curiosity be your compass to endless discoveries! ---- --- --- The Exploratorium was founded in 1969 by Frank Oppenheimer a noted experimental physicist and university professor. He served as the museum’s director until his death in 1985.--- --- --- In 1949 Oppenheimer was forced to resign from his position at the University of Minnesota as a result of inquiry by the House Un-American Activities Committee. He was convinced of the need for public museums to supplement science curricula at all levels. He toured Europe and studied museums on a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1965. Then in 1969 with a $50 000 grant from the San Francisco Foundation the Exploratorium opened at the Palace of Fine Arts --- --- --- The Exploratorium's website is an extension of the experiences on the museum's floor. It provides "real" experiences for online audiences --- --- --- Artist-created wor off-site includes the Wave Organ a unique sonic experience located just past the Golden Gate Yacht Club in the Marina The Tactile Dome [designed by the late August Coppola father of actor Nicholas Cage and brother of director Francis Coppola] a three-dimensional pitch-black labyrinth that visitors must navigate using the sense of touch is still among most popular interactive exhibits decades after being introduced |
| Headline | Located at the Palace of Fine Arts since 1969 -the interactive science museum will move to piers 15 and 17 on the Embarcadero just across from Green St in 2012. |
| Copyright Notice | exploratorium.edu [award winning web site too!] |
| Date Created | 03/24/2006 |
| URL | http://www.exploratorium.edu/ |
