Exploratorium

After Dark The first Thursday of every month 6:00–10:00 p.m. Experience life After Dark, an evening series exclusively for adults that mixes cocktails, conversation, and playful, innovative science and art events. Not a theater, cabaret, or gallery, After Dark contains aspects of all three. Each evening showcases a different topic—from music to sex to electricity—but all include a cash bar and film screenings, plus an opportunity to play with our hundreds of hands-on exhibits. Join us and mingle with inventive scientists, artists, musicians, programmers, and designers. Enjoy live performances, provocative films, interesting music, cutting-edge technology, unexpected extravaganzas, and more, depending on each evening's lineup. Leave the kids at home and meet friends or take a date. Where else can you find an intellectually stimulating playground for adults—with free parking? This event is included in the price of museum admission. To join the After Dark e-mail list and receive notifications of future events, contact afterdark@exploratorium.edu .

Outdoor Exploratorium
Did you know that you can use the Golden Gate Bridge as a thermometer? Or that flags flying at different heights along the San Francisco skyline might double as a wind observatory? A new Outdoor Exploratorium features a collection of 20 brand-new outdoor interactive science exhibits and artworks. Visitors can find the Outdoor Exploratorium at Fort Mason between San Francisco’s Aquatic Park and the Marina District, beginning on March 13, 2009.

Check out our links: microscopes, music, skateboarding, cow's eyes, optical illusions, complexity, dna, bubbles, listening, seeing, global climate change, polar science, gardening, cooking, sports, biodiversity, astrobiology, particle physics, space weather, solar eclipses, earthquakes, frogs, auroras, mars