Outdoor San Francisco science museum opens
Posted on: Monday, 16 March 2009, 10:41 CDT
An outdoor, interactive science museum has opened along San Francisco's waterfront, offering visitors both toys and tools to explore scientific principles.
The Outdoor Exploratorium at Fort Mason, a historic military post established in the 1860s, takes advantage of the natural and man-made landscape. Included among the exhibits is the Bridge Thermometer -- a calibrated telescope that allows viewers to see how the Golden Gate Bridge -- engineered to move up and down as much as 16 feet at its center in response to thermal expansion and contraction -- changes height depending on temperature and traffic.
The 20 exhibits, funded by a National Science Foundation grant, were designed by scientists and artists from The Exploratorium, a popular hands-on museum inside the Palace of Fine Arts at the site of the 1915 San Francisco World's Fair.
This is not what you typically envision when you think of a museum,
project developer Bryan Connell said in an interview. This is the future.
Source: United Press International
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