March 26 - The Galleries will close at 4PM. Last IMAX film is at 4PM.
Explor-O-Rama
Get Your Hands On Science
Bernoulli girl
Bernoulli hair
Bike-Gyro
Bike-Gyro
Drawing Table
Gravity Well
Kaleidoscope
Marble Accelerator
Marble Accelerator
Pendulum Snake
Pendulum Snake
Primary Cube
Pendulum Snake
Rope Squirter Woman
Rope Squirter
Square Wheels
Square Wheels
Strobe Flower Phenomena
Strobe Flower Phenomena
Turntable
Our newest Main Gallery exhibition combines some of our all-time favorites with never-seen-before interactive exhibits from San Francisco’s Exploratorium. This collection features opportunities to explore mechanics, motion, math, hearing, electricity and many other interconnected areas of science–sometimes all at the same time! Look for new challenges with the Bicycle Wheel Gyro, Strobe Flower and Magnetic Wave Machine; and enjoy the return of popular favorites the Whisper Dishes, Tornado and Pedal Generator!
The “Explor-O-Rama” alphabet soup includes: Balancing Ball, Bicycle Wheel Gyro, Bouncing Ball, DC Motor-Generator, Drawing Table, Duck Into Kaleidoscope, Fluttering Bridge, Generator Effect, Giant Chair, Gravity Well, Hold the Phone, Lens Table, Magic Wand, Magnetic Wave Machine, Marble Accelerator, Motion Theater, Parabolas, Pedal Generator, Pendulum Snake, Pitch Switch, Primary of A Cube, Repeating Words, Rope Squirter, Speech Dissector, Spinning Eraser, Square Wheels, Strobe Flower, Tornado, Turntable and Whisper Dishes.
This exhibition has been funded in part by the County of San Diego and The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation.
Experience
Visiting
Great Balls of Fire
Comets, Meteors, Asteroids
Closing Sunday, Apr 28, 2013
Origins of Life
Closing Sunday, Jun 9, 2013
Nierman Challenger Learning Center
The Nierman Challenger Learning Center at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center is a part of a growing network of centers worldwide that are being established by the Challenger Center for Space Science Education in memory of the crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.
