Enrich Your Life with Science and Art - A Tour Guide to San Francisco Exploratorium

The Exploratorium is a mid nineteen century science museum located in San Francisco. It is filled with hundreds of exhibits with most of them built on site. This museum was the brain child of an eminent physicist Dr Frank Oppenheimer. The museum experiences footfall of over 600000 tourists annually from over the world.

More on the museum history on Wikipedia.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Exploratorium

In 1991 Dr Goery Delacote, the famous French scientist was appointed as the executive director of the museum. It is with his endeavor, the museum went global through internet. He wanted to create an international network which would help the advancement of the museum. His subsequent successors carried forwarded his work for the advancement of science.

For membership related services of the museum on Exploratorium.edu

http://www.exploratorium.edu/membership/

The museum floor is a place to culture science through practical experiments. The research and development on the floor here will surely amaze you. Scientific wonders like worms glowing green with the help of chemicals from jellyfish can be seen here. The motto of the museum is to trigger human inquisitiveness towards the unknown.

More about the programs of the museum on Exploratorium.edu

http://www.exploratorium.edu/about/fact_sheet.php

The San Francisco museum has many categories from which you can choose to learn. Astronomy & Space, Culture and arts, human body, living things are some of the exciting categories. They also impart knowledge about making your own telescope, sound sandwich, building modular solar systems, insights on plant life. You will also gather knowledge about science of music, climate change, science of cooking etc.

For valuable riviews of the place on tripadvisor.com

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g60713-d102775-Reviews-The_Exploratorium-San_Francisco_California.html

The place has got a wonderful teaching program known as ExNET. This program imparts the knowledge of 40 years of research by the Exploratorium scientists and its partners. The Exploratorium was rated as the 12th most effective NGO of USA.