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

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 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, 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

January 29, 2010 - pocket magnifiers By Aiona Bones
For the past couple weeks I’ve been working on creating a list of good objects for floor staff to keep in their pockets while roaming the floor, to share with visitors and think about new concepts themselves. The magnifier in this post is an outtake, but it’s just so cool I wanted to put the [...]
January 12, 2010 - Baoding Balls By Aiona Bones
Don Harrington Discovery Center is currently working hard on putting together their Bounce exhibition, which opens in June, and they are getting a new set of Exploratorium exhibits to complement their own. I’ve been searching the city for interesting spheres and round things and packing them together in a big box of toys and tools [...]
November 19, 2009 - Fort Worth has Lit the Lantern… By Sam Dean
The week-long build-up to the Fort Worth opening is rolling along. Monday, the museum hosted a media preview, and at dusk officially turned on the Urban Lantern for the public.
The past two nights have been time to bring donors into the building for a first view of the new place, building up to the ribbon-cutting [...]
November 6, 2009 - ExNet Birthday Party – Fox and Hound, ASTC 2009 By Sam Dean
Happy Birthday ExNet!

It’s been 10 wonderful years for the Network for Exhibit-Based Teaching. Ten years of exhibit-trading, idea-swapping, and partnership-building.
March 3, 2009 - Visit to ISEA in Van, Texas By Sam Dean
Last week, I was fortunate to be able to take a roadtrip through Texas, visiting our ExNet and TexNet partners there while heading over to the Informal Science Education Association of Texas Meeting in Van, February 25-27, 2009.