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The Exploratorium is a public science museum located in the Marina District at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, California. It is one of San Francisco's most popular museums, drawing over 500,000 people a year.
Founded in 1969 by the physicist Dr. Frank Oppenheimer, the Exploratorium is dedicated to teaching science through hands-on exhibits. Many of its exhibits are created by visual and performing artists as well as scientists and educators. Exhibit designs that have been created at the Exploratorium often are duplicated for other science museums worldwide. Some exhibits, of course, can't be duplicated such as the off-site Wave organ, a unique sonic experience located on a point of land jutting into the San Francisco Bay.
The Exploratorium has an extensive website with many online science exhibits and experiments, which has received the Webby Award for Best Science Site four times since 1997.
The Exploratorium in the movies
The dome of the Palace of Fine Arts just outside the Exploratorium and the adjacent lake have often been used as backdrops for movies. One of the more famous sequences takes place in The Rock where FBI agent Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage) finally catches up with John Mason (Sean Connery).
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