ExNET

About ExNET

The Exploratorium Network for Exhibit-Based Teaching (ExNET) is a hybrid exhibit and teaching program that shares the fruits of forty years of research by the Exploratorium and affiliated partners with a diverse group of science-rich institutions around the United States and the world.



Sam Dean
ExNET Program Director
sdean@exploratorium.edu
+1 415-353-0442 (phone)

Workshops

ExNET Workshops

Curious about new ways of learning?
We'd be thrilled to share our ongoing deep exploration and research into new ways of using exhibits as learning tools.

Exhibit Groups

ExNET Exhibit Groups

ExNET features a collection of the best of the Exploratorium’s exhibits, grouped together thematically into a number of different powerful combinations.

Partner Institutions

ExNET Partners

ExNET Partners, representing large and small museums worldwide, organize around the exchange of exhibits, people, and expertise to contribute to a worldwide culture of learning.

Recent ExNET Posts

  • October 27, 2011 - Color Uncovered: The Exploratorium’s First iPad App Takes Off By Aiona Bones

    Color Uncovered, the Exploratorium’s very first iPad app, was released last week and was quickly downloaded by scores of curious users. It currently sits at #1 for free educational apps, much to the excitement of Exploratorium staff, who volleyed emails back and forth all week, keeping each other posted on its current rating as it [...]

  • October 12, 2011 - The Passing of The Torch, The Exploratorium Gets New Explainers By Aiona Bones

    Here in San Francisco the rains have just started. That’s how I know that summer is officially over. The days are getting shorter, the tourists have gone home, the children have started school, and the rest of us have unpacked our rain gear. In the museum business this also means that field trip season is [...]

  • September 12, 2011 - Prototyping New Ideas: Zoetrope and Cycloid Station By Aiona Bones

    ExNET has been working on designing two new activities for our traveling tinkering show, and I recently had the opportunity to join forces with the Exploratorium Tinkering Studio team to prototype them on the floor. It was both fun and profoundly useful to see them in action, and we’re planning on doing more prototyping together [...]

  • August 11, 2011 - Giant lasers, super vacuums and the search for gravity waves By Aiona Bones

    Giant lasers, super vacuums and the search for gravity waves

    Most ExNET exhibit sets can be found at science and discovery museums in the center of cities, but every rotation cycle we ship one set out to Louisiana, far from any large metropolis, to a very high tech research center hidden behind a tangle of dense wet forest. This is LIGO, a Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave [...]

  • June 15, 2011 - Learning from Research By Aiona Bones

    While most science museum educators value the importance of scientific research in untangling and illuminating the world around us, it remains the case that research on informal learning itself is not widely read by the people in a position to put the research to use. I suspect one of the reasons for this is simply [...]