Genius Alert

For those who didn’t catch the newspapers, radio coverage, web traffic, mus-news, etc.
Our good buddy and Exploratorium artist Walter Kitundu won the MacArthur “Genius” award on Monday. Walter has so many awesome talents to share with the world and its been amazing to work with him for the past year or so on PIE projects. [...]

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A New Year of Field Trips

Today we each shared one thing that we hope that the school kids who visit the Exploratorium get out of their day. Here’s what we’re hoping:

To have a stong, positive memory of a unique experience–a personal story to tell their friends and family.
Fun, enrichment, good memories.
They figure out something new. An “ah-ha!” [...]

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Museu Da Vida

I recently got an email from our buddy Sebastian all the way down in Brazil. He’s at a science museum conference down there and has shared our blog with some of the participants. Hopefully some of the “explainers” of other museums around the world can get exposure to one of the ways it’s possible to [...]

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