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Happy Lunar New Year, explOrers! We hope the Year of the brings you boundless prosperity and curiosity!⠀
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Art by Exploratorium’s own @trashbag_jones! ⠀
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Repost: 新年快乐! Happy Lunar New Year! Here’s the observatory board I did today in honor LNY. A dancing Lion announces the animal of 2019! Pigs! Shout out to @earthlytravelthings for helping me with translations!⠀
#illustration #dryerase #weterase #lunarnewyear #yearofthepig #exploratorium (at San Francisco, California)
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Join us at #NightofIdeasSF—an evening of cultural discussion @SFPublicLibrary on Sat. 02/02 from 7pm-2am! Exploratorium exhibit developers and scientists will be sharing our work on fostering human connection in public spaces through interactive experiences inspired by social science.⠀
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Please join Exploratorium’s Shawn Lani, Director of Studio for Public Spaces, and Heike Winterheld Ph.D., Program Director of Social Sciences, in conversation about promoting compassion through interactive social experiences.⠀
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*Registration is now closed. Tickets may be available at the door* Link in bio for more info! ⠀
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#socialscience #socialpsychology #research #educationforall #prototype #sanfrancisco #exploratorium (at San Francisco Public Library)
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#MyExploratorium means so much to so many people, including the dedicated and passionate team that makes the magic happen at our Pier 15 home—just like Vanessa: one of our amazing Exploratorium Store managers, who’s literally always getting caught up in the magic of science and arts education!! ✨⠀
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Share your favorite Exploratorium memories using #MyExploratorium for your chance to be featured on #MyExploratoriumMonday and be entered to win our monthly prizes!⠀
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Repost @ms.mama.v : Things that happen at work when I’m the manager on duty ⚗️#hobermansphere #isokinetic #icosidodecahedron #funwithcoworkers #exploratorium #myexploratorium #frontline #ibelieveinscience #workworkwork #managersbelike #managerlife #bosslady #girlboss #workingmama #museumstore #retailexperience (at San Francisco, California)
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✨ Don’t forget to look up. ⠀
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#rainbow #reflection #refraction # #alwaysSF #onlyinSF #sanfrancisco #exploratorium (at San Francisco, California)
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The Exploratorium’s Staff Picks Holiday Gift Guide

The Exploratorium’s retail team did a round up of their favorite gift ideas for the holidays! The product picks in this gift guide are sure to surprise, challenge, and delight even your hardest–to–shop-for friends and family. Take a look at the highlights, then head to our Creative Gifts Playlist on YouTube to watch the team unbox and review their top picks!

Watch Jeff rock the circuits with the Little Bits Electronic Music Inventor Kit here.

Just wait for it—a furry friend comes to visit as Ernest explores our museum with his handy dandy mobile phone Clip-on Microscope! Watch here.

Is science and curiosity in your future? Lauren unboxes our Science Tarot Card Deck in this video and gives us a look at how science can lead us to self-reflection! 

Imagine the sweet, stress relief of fidgeting with 512 rare earth metal magnets… Now watch it here in this video as Rachel demonstrates how fun (and gorgeous) the latest Speks Luxe edition kits are.

Crank up the fun with Ryan as he reveals the mystical, automata Pegasus for the first time in this charming video inspired by our winter Curious Contraptions exhibition!

Over-the-top cuteness meets cutting-edge technology with the Kiko 893 Robot. In this video, Antoine shares the joy of engineering and making as he sets the Kiko 893 on adventures around our retail store.

To learn more our Staff Picks and see our complete holiday gift guide, visit our Exploratorium online store! Happy Holidays!

We’re halfway through the week, which means #ExploAFTERDARK is almost here! Tomorrow night, we’re featuring all things Electric! From Van de Graff generators and plasma tubes to the synapses in our bodies, to superconductors to Earth’s magnetic field, electricity is everywhere—and we’ll feature it ALL at the Exploratorium!⚡Get tickets with link in bio.⠀
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Repost @sivakumarchellamuthu: #color #shadows #exploratorium #sanfrancisco #afterdark #thursday #night
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⚡️Get ready to have your hair stand on end (literally) at this week’s #ExploAFTERDARK: It’s Electric! Link in bio.⠀
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With high-voltage direct-current electricity turned down to low current levels, our #VanDeGraaff generator will (and won’t!) shock you. This Thursday night at #Exploratorium!
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#ICYMI: The most curious, brilliant, and compassionate minds were awarded the #NobelPrize last week by @nobelprize_org! A big, explOrer round of applause for these incredible breakthroughs in Chemistry, Physiology/Medicine, Physics, Peace, and Economic Sciences! Swipe to see this year’s winners! Link in bio for the full Nobel Prize announcements. #Exploratorium #Science #Chemistry #Physics #Physiology #Medicine #Economics #NobelPeacePrize ⠀
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(from the Nobel Prize Twitter Page)⠀
-The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the #NobelPrize in Chemistry 2018 with one half to Frances H. Arnold and the other half jointly to George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter.⠀
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-The 2018 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation.”⠀
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-The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the #NobelPrize in Physics 2018 “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” with one half to Arthur Ashkin and the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland.⠀
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-The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018 to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict. ⠀
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-The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2018 to William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer.
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It’s #IndigenousPeoplesDay! Here in San Francisco, we find ourselves on #Ramaytush and #Ohlone land. Curious about the native history in your town? The free Native Land App makes it easy to learn more! Link in bio.⠀
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From the app via the #Ramaytush official website:⠀
“The Ramaytush (pronounced rah-my-toosh) are the only original people of the San Francisco Peninsula… The title Ramaytush Ohlone recognizes the Ramaytush as a part of a larger group of the Ohlone/Costanoan peoples who lived in the area of the San Francisco Bay south to Monterey. Prior to the arrival of the Spanish in 1769, the Ramaytush Ohlone numbered approximately 1400 persons and lived in eleven tribelets.⠀
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#Exploratorium #SanFrancisco (at San Francisco, California)
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✨ #PayItForward! Our “Pay-It-Forward Cafe Pop Up” debuted at today’s Civic Center Commons Block Party—have you seen it? ☕ This exhibit collaboration with @sfcoffeecruiser celebrates coffee, curiosity, and compassion! Come through the Civic Center Commons til 3pm today and buy a coffee for a stranger ‍♂️⠀
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Stay tuned to find out where it’ll pop up next! @civiccentercommons @asianartmuseum #exploratorium #sanfrancisco (at Civic Center Commons)
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Happy #WorldTeachersDay! We’re honored to support teachers all over the world, from Tibetan monks and nuns to those in our own backyard. Today, we celebrate you! ⠀
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✏‍‍ #ExploEDU #Exploratorium
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