Impact Report 2019

Table of ContentsA NOTE FROM THE TINKERING STUDIO

WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO

HIGH SCHOOL EXPLAINERS:FLASHBACK TO 1969

HIGH SCHOOL EXPLAINERS:FLASH FORWARD TO 2019

THE LIVING LIQUID PROJECT

THE STORY BEHIND A NEW EXHIBIT

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SELF, MADESUMMER 2019

ROSTEN WOO’S MUTUAL AIR

LETTER FROM CHRIS FLINK

THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS

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Welcome!

The first time I came to the Exploratorium as a kid, I felt there was going to be a lot to discover. For many kids, the Exploratorium is their first time experiencing science in a vibrant, hands-on way—and that can be transformative. That’s what happened to me. In 2008, I joined the Exploratorium as a Field Trip Explainer, and never left.

Today, I am the Program Director for the museum’s Tinkering Studio. In the Tinkering Studio, we develop workshops that allow visitors to use real tools and materials to ask their own questions and discover their own answers through building personally meaningful objects.

Tinkering is not just an action—it is a mindset. It helps you approach the world with confidence in your ability to playfully investigate until you find a solution. Tinkering helps people make sense of the world on their own terms.

My goal is that visitors of all ages who come through the Tinkering Studio experience the same spark of discovery I felt in my own early visits. Tinkering is just one of the ways the Exploratorium works to ignite curiosity and help people understand the world around them.

A NOTE FROM THE TINKERING STUDIO

I hope you’ll feel inspired reading the stories of exploration and wonder in this Impact Report. Perhaps you’ll also be inspired to join me in the Tinkering Studio to create your own Scribbling Machine or Light Play kinetic sculpture.

I can’t wait to see you at the museum!

Lianna KaliTinkering Studio Program Director

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Here’s why we do what we do.The Exploratorium is a public learning laboratory exploring the world through science, art, and human perception. Our mission is to create inquiry-based experiences that transform learning worldwide. Our vision is a world where people think for themselves and can confidently ask questions, question answers, and understand the world around them.

THE EXPLORATORIUM’S MISSION, VISION, AND VALUES

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In 1969, she was the Exploratorium’s first (and only) Explainer.

When young Peggy Karplus (later Hellweg) showed up at Frank Oppenheimer’s house on Lombard Street to interview for a position at his new Exploratorium, she was already on the path to becoming a scientist. Her parents both worked

Flashback to 1969— who was the first Explainer?

MEET PEGGY HELLWEG, HIGH SCHOOL EXPLAINER

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WHO ARE THE HIGH SCHOOL EXPLAINERS TODAY?

High School Explainers, the Exploratorium’s youngest employees, are a diverse group of students who engage visitors at exhibits, lead demonstrations, run many museum operations, and receive extensive training from leading professionals and scientists across the organization. Some are interested in science; all have a spark for learning new things. High School Explainers fill over 130 paid positions per year at the museum.

Find out more about the Explainer program at explainers.exploratorium.edu/highschool.

Over 3,500 Bay Area high schoolers have followed in Peggy’s footsteps.

a network of seismometer and accelerometer stations as the Operations Manager for the Berkeley Seismology Laboratory.

In the past 50 years, over 3,500 Bay Area high school students have followed in Peggy’s footsteps. After holding the title of Explainer at the Exploratorium, these young people have gone on to work in many different professions, becoming firefighters, CEOs, teachers, scientists, and much more.

How will the next 3,500 use their experiences as Explainers to leave their marks on the fields they pursue? We can’t wait to see.

at the Lawrence Hall of Science, and she and her siblings were drawn early to physics, chemistry, and math.

As an Explainer, Peggy gained life skills as well as scientific knowledge. “I learned that you really need to listen to people and understand where they are coming from before you can explain a concept to them, or before they can figure out how a specific exhibit works,” she remembers. “I also learned how to explore and figure things out myself, things that I might not have tried to figure out otherwise. That way I could be a better teacher than simply knowing an answer by heart.”

Today, Peggy is a seismologist with a BA and MA in physics and a PhD in geophysics. She manages

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Flash forward to 2019—how do you imagine the typical Explainer?

MEET MITCHELL CASTANON, HIGH SCHOOL EXPLAINER

How do you imagine a typical applicant to the High School Explainer program? You might not imagine someone like Mitchell Castanon.

Mitchell didn’t apply because he loved the Exploratorium, or even science.

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“I always thought I hated science,” Mitchell says. “In my education, science was more about memorizing than doing activities.” Nor was he looking for a stepping stone to college; in high school he took “the easiest way out possible.” Mitchell wanted an internship in the tech industry, hoping it would lead to a job. But a friend working at the Exploratorium encouraged him to apply here as well, and so Mitchell applied to the Explainer program as a plan B.

Being an Explainer was not what Mitchell had imagined.

As an Explainer, Mitchell rediscovered an early passion that, during high school, he’d almost forgotten—teaching. Helping people didn’t feel like an assignment to him; it was intuitive, and he loved it. After his first semester at the Exploratorium, Mitchell started spending extra time coaching, supporting, and teaching new Explainers as they joined the team. The joy of helping others grow and succeed returned, and he reconnected to his own love of learning.

Explainers learn about themselves as much as they do about the world around them.

He noticed that while friends dreaded getting up and heading to work, he woke up motivated and energized, and he soon added community college coursework to his commitments. A year and a half later, this student once intent on squeaking by was accepted to the University of California at Santa Cruz to major in education, becoming only the second person in his family to go to college.

Some Explainers arrive confident and sure of the path to their goals. Others, like Mitchell, start unsure of their futures. But through the program, Explainers learn about themselves as much as they do about the world around them, and they carry those lessons, and the friendships they make, with them for the rest of their lives.

Today, Mitchell is still Explaining—you can find him doing demonstrations and interacting with attendees at private events held at the museum. He expects to graduate from UC Santa Cruz in spring 2022.

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Can we tap, swipe, and zoom to make sense of big data?

THE LIVING LIQUID PROJECT

Whenever you check your heart rate graphs on a Fitbit, or explore maps of election poll results, you are using visualizations to make sense of big data.

Visualizations—computer-generated visual representations of data—are an increasingly critical part of our everyday lives. They help

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scientists and the public make sense of the massive, complex data sets now collected everywhere, from weather satellites to genome sequencing machines to our own wearable sensors.

It can be difficult to feel empowered to navigate this flood of information, but helping people ask questions and understand the world around them is central to our mission. As huge scientific data sets have become more prevalent, we’ve expanded our focus on making visualizations for our visitors, while continuing to research the best approaches to design and development. Jennifer Frazier, a senior scientist at the Exploratorium, is a leader in this work. Jennifer grew up in a house crammed with “cases of fossilized jellyfish” (collected by her dad, an amateur paleontologist) and vials of sand from around the world (belonging to her mom, a middle school science teacher). Inspired by this setting, and by her weekends spent outdoors, Jennifer went on to receive a BS in bioethics and genetics from University of California Davis, followed by a PhD in cell biology from University of California San Francisco. Today, Jennifer is helping visitors explore and make sense of data sets from the natural world. She is the lead researcher on our Living Liquid project, which aims to make marine biology data accessible to visitors through hands-on exhibits,

and to discover ways to encourage visitors to ask questions about that data. You can try your hand at exploring two data sets with touch-screen exhibits in our Living Systems gallery:

• Plankton Populations explores the ever-changing population of plankton throughout the world’s oceans, with data from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Darwin Project.

• Mapping Migrations investigates the migration of the ocean’s top predators, with data from the Tagging of Pacific Predators project.

In May 2019, in an extension of this work, Jennifer also led the VISUALISE: Visualization for Informal Science Education conference here at the Exploratorium. VISUALISE was the first conference focused on creating effective visualizations for science museums and informal science education venues, and it brought together museum professionals, learning researchers, computer scientists, artists, and technology developers.

Funding for Living Liquid and VISUALISE was provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. 1322828 and 1811163.

Visualizations help us navigate the huge datasets now collected everywhere.

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Can a visual illusion help us understand skin-tone bias?

THE STORY BEHIND A NEW EXHIBITBY DIANE WHITMORE, EXHIBIT DEVELOPER

In 2014, I attended a talk by Harvard psychology researcher and Osher Fellow Mahzarin Banaji. She had discovered a visual illusion that had to do with how people perceive race. The images she showed placed me face-to-face with my own unconscious skin-tone bias.

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Five years later, our exhibition Self, Made gave me an opportunity to develop that experience into an exhibit.

This prototype required new experts—and changed my development practice forever.

Exploratorium exhibit developers typically solicit feedback on prototypes from content experts, colleagues, and visitors. We gather points of view, then sift and synthesize them. This prototype, however, required a different kind of feedback and new experts—and it changed my development practice forever.

The following illusion may or may not work for you, but here are three things to remember:

• You may experience discomfort.• You might learn something new.• This is not a test for racism.

Master Exhibit Developer Diane Whitmore is in her 25th year at the Exploratorium. Her many creations include What’s Hot, What’s Not?, Pi Toss, and 3-D Shapes. Here Diane tells you the story behind When Seeing Race, Can You Trust Your Eyes?, an exhibit she developed for our summer 2019 exhibition Self, Made: Exploring You in a World of We.

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race.” I found that talking about race got easier with practice.

So I sought other voices, including from among our racially diverse cadre of Explainers, many of whom shared their personal experiences. These sources responded with generosity, expert insights, and great advice. Comments included “How can a white person say anything meaningful about racial bias?” “You need to say why this matters,” and—when I was deciding whether to show two faces or six—“It’s nice to see more brown faces.”

I was beginning to tune in to a new (to me) dimension of exhibit development: emotional feedback. I found I needed new strategies to invite, understand, and integrate people’s

Depending on what you saw, you might be surprised to know that all the faces are exactly the same tone. Only the facial features are different.

Not convinced? The exhibit includes tools that let you check this statement. Skin-tone biases have been documented in multiple published experimental psychology studies. It’s clear from this research that society and experience shape what we see and hear.

How did developing this exhibit change my practice? At first, by challenging me simply to discuss race without overt fear or defensiveness. When collecting feedback from my usual sources, I heard concerns such as “Is this appropriate for our floor?” Some saw it as an optical gray-scale illusion. I learned to say “No, this exhibit is about

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reactions. With their help, I could reconsider my prototypes through a broader lens.

The resulting exhibit, When Seeing Race, Can You Trust Your Eyes?, presents a verifiable skin-tone bias experience. It seeks both to represent people of color and clearly account for why this illusion matters in daily life.

If this illusion gave you a face-to-face experience with skin-tone bias, I hope you’ll accept it as a part of being human. Perhaps acknowledging it will change you a little, as it did me. If we can accept unconscious skin-tone bias as biofeedback, we may gain awareness. And with awareness, we can shift our conscious behavior.

Do they have different skin tones?

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What makes you you?

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...and why does a science museum care?

In our 50th anniversary year, alongside our exhibits on light, sound, and other natural phenomena, the Exploratorium transformed one large gallery into an exploration of yet another visible yet mysterious subject: what makes you you.

Why did a science museum create an exhibition about identity? Self, Made: Exploring You in a World of We isn’t our first bold exhibition. Over the years, the Exploratorium has tackled many complex subjects, including the AIDS crisis and the legacy of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Fifty years on from our founding, we’re reflecting upon the Exploratorium’s own identity as a museum of “science, art, and human perception.” And nothing shapes human perception quite like our beliefs, habits, values, and upbringing—all elements that make up our personal identities.

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We explore science, art, and human perception—and nothing shapes perception quite like identity.

In fact, many topics we think of as “science” issues are powerfully shaped by our social identities—think of views on gene modification, or opinions on climate change. Identity is a highly relevant topic for our community to explore, especially in a time when it’s become clear that the very definition of “truth” is shaped as much by prior beliefs as by scientifically verifiable facts.

How we intentionally and unintentionally construct our identities, and how our identities

are shaped by external forces, can be illuminated through both scientific disciplines (biology, neuroscience, anthropology, psychology, social and behavioral sciences, medicine) and humanities or cultural disciplines (art, history, popular culture). As a result, Self, Made is eclectic and mixed media, appropriate for a show exploring this complex topic central to human experience. In addition to creating and curating Exploratorium exhibits, we worked closely with guest co-curators, whose contributions were

essential: anthropologist Duana Fullwiley, PhD; sports journalist and author Howard Bryant; Earth historian Lauret Edith Savoy, PhD; and American studies scholar Ramzi Fawaz, PhD.

By exploring how one’s own identity—and the identities of others—are shaped, we hope our visitors leave more curious and empathetic toward anyone they may think of as “different.”

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Can you hear the air pollution?

ROSTEN WOO’S MUTUAL AIR

What if you could hear the air pollution that affects us all?

On September 30, 2018, the Exploratorium launched artist Rosten Woo’s sound installation Mutual Air. Fifteen individual sculptures, installed across San Francisco and Oakland, chimed and clicked in response to fluctuations in local air quality and global CO2 levels.

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“Mutual Air allows us to access the dynamic quality of the air, which is otherwise invisible,” says Woo, who developed the project as an Artist-in-Residence at the Exploratorium between 2014 and 2018. “I was inspired by the historic use of bells, which once kept the daily rhythms of towns and connected its residents. What if we could connect contemporary urban spaces by sonifying this resource?”

For nine months, this network of bells reacted throughout the day to fluctuations in neighborhood air quality and global CO2 levels; the artist calls them “wind chimes for air pollution.” Woo’s bells respond to particulate matter in the air, specifically PM2.5, or particles 2.5 microns across or less—tiny enough to easily enter our lungs and bloodstream. High levels of this widely used measure of poor air quality are associated with serious health risks like respiratory disease, heart disease, and diabetes.

By forming partnerships with organizations to host the sculptures across the two cities, as well as collect, frame, and share their data, Mutual Air aimed to create opportunities for residents to better understand their air quality and advocate for their communities.

Two months after installation, local events led Mutual Air to change its tune. In November 2018, during the devastating Camp Fire in Butte County, what had begun as a way to draw attention to air-quality disparities across the Bay Area quickly vaulted the region’s interconnectedness to the foreground. As smoke pollution soared, the bells sounded with nonstop distress, a vivid reminder of the unfolding tragedy to the north. As Woo eloquently says, “Sound has special characteristics—you can’t choose not to see it, and you can’t look away.”

In an era when global rhetoric often divides people, Mutual Air’s goal was to bring local communities together. Part of the Exploratorium’s focus on fostering civic agency, the project involved partnerships with and cooperation from the Oakland Museum of California, Chabot Space and Science Center, the City of Oakland Public Art Program and Cultural Affairs Division, and the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project. Mutual Air was supported by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s Open Spaces Program with additional support from Particle.

Learn more about this project at mutualair.org.

SUPPORTING OUR NEIGHBORS AFTER THE CAMP FIREPeople from around the world contributed upward of $55 million to California wildfire recovery efforts. After the Camp Fire in Butte County, the Exploratorium and our employees lent support by sending donations to North Valley Community Foundation (nvcf.org), working with corporate partner Good Eggs to send Thanksgiving meals to the displaced, personally transporting donated items north for distribution, and opening the museum—where industrial air filtration systems kept the air quality at healthier levels than outdoors—to affected local families.

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It’s our 50th year. What’s next?

Dear friends,

This year we’re basking in the glow of the Exploratorium’s golden anniversary. During our first 50 years, we’ve worked to transform science education around the globe into something more precious than gold—joyful, inquiry-based experiences that empower people to understand the world around them.

It is humbling to lead an institution that shares its anniversary with such momentous milestones as the Apollo 11 moon landing and the launch

of the Internet. With the pace of technological change ever increasing, it’s hard to imagine what a science center could look like in five more decades. But one thing, I’m sure, will remain constant: our commitment to continual innovation. Through applied research and development, the Exploratorium’s exhibit developers, educators, scientists, and artists continue to tirelessly prototype and test novel learning experiences. I invite you to explore our R&D Agenda for a preview of what’s next for the Exploratorium.

Thank you for your support: visiting, donating, learning, and exploring with us. I can’t wait to see where we go next, as we joyfully invent that future together.

Chris FlinkSakurako and William Fisher Executive Director

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INDIVIDUAL GIVING

Our thanks to the friends who helped support the Exploratorium with gifts made July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2019. Their generosity provided much-needed resources to help deepen our impact on science education and interactive learning worldwide.

Exploratorium TrustThe Bengier FoundationWilliam K. Bowes, Jr. FoundationGeorge W. Cogan and Fannie AllenTroy and Leslie DanielsMichael Jacobson and Trine SorensenThe McMurtry Family FoundationGordon and Betty MooreSandy OtelliniSakana FoundationRam and Vijay ShriramJennifer Van Natta

Leadership Circle Anonymous (2)Ravin and Alka AgrawalJennifer Caldwell and John H. N. FisherTony and Sarah EarleyMartha Ehmann ConteRoger Evans and Aey PhanachetMrs. Donald G. FisherSharon Flanagan and Patrick GalvinGermaine and Jonathan HeiligerFrances Hellman and Warren BreslauThe Dirk and Charlene Kabcenell FoundationRoberta and Chuck Katz

Richard Laiderman and Jung-Wha SongMr. and Mrs. Jude LaspaSue and Phil MarineauMr. and Mrs. Michael L. MauzéStephanie and Bill MellinKen and Kris MooreMichael Moritz and Harriet HeymanLaurie and Josh OlshanskyKenneth Rainin FoundationCraig Silverstein and Mary ObelnickiAdriana and Aaron VermutJim and Lia WhiteheadRoger Wu and Ruth Hauser WuDan Yue

Director’s CircleAnonymousAndrew J. AnagnostScott and Caroline Borduin Family FoundationNorman Brand and Nancy SperoMarilyn Burns and Jeffrey SellonBarbara Carbone and Gregg LymanRobert Chin and Julia ZaksAnne D. and Walter B. Clark Family

Donor Advised FundClay Foundation - WestThe Dolby FamilyJudy EstrinThe Julie and Greg Flynn Family FundGlasser Family FundJohn and Marcia Goldman FoundationSara G. Griffith/Griffith Family FoundationDivesh and Diksha Makan

John and Leslie McQuownKenneth and Vera MeislinRobert and Robyn MetcalfeElizabeth R. PattersonCameron A. PhlegerKevin Primat, Primed FoundationVincent and Jean RicciJack SchiffhauerShustek Dubinsky Family Philanthropic FundSkip and Ellie SmithLisa Stanton and Nicholas BakerUrbanek Family FoundationLynn and Peter WendellMike Wilkins and Sheila DuignanEsther and Stan WojcickiMr. David A. WollenbergRichard YonashDavid G. Yu

Catalyst CircleAnonymous (4)Bruce and Betty AlbertsTherese and David ArsenaultLiv BaalsrudMr. and Mrs. Joachim BechtleGordon BellStuart J. Berkowitz, PhDKathleen and Dan BomzeDr. Margarita Bratkova and Solomon BoulosKirby and Jeffrey BurkeThe Campbell FoundationKyra and Ken CarsonMegan Cayler, In Memory of Kathryn McFarland

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Elizabeth ChurchillSarah E. Cogan and Douglas H. EvansScott Cronce and Deborah MaxwellWilliam and Tammy CrownCaroline H. DamskydesJardins/Blachman FundRobert DockendorffEast Creek FundAudrey and Ted FehlhaberLaura and John FisherAlison F. GeballeLori GraceMarritje and Jamie GreeneAlan Grumet and Sonia LeeThe Handlery FoundationKimberly and John HardingCaryl and Mickey HartJosie and Dan HaspelJames A. HeagyBrian and Kristin HellerCathy Highiet-HunterChris Hirano and Chiyomi Kuroki-HiranoThe Hobson Family FoundationJames C. Hormel and Michael P. NguyenSui Sheng HuaSean Johnston and Brad ParberryKatya Kazakova and Jake MizrahiKelli, Eric, Ollie, and DevonBrian M. KincaidR. Samuel KlatchkoRanee Lan and Jeremy LiewTom LippmanMonica Lopez and Sameer Gandhi

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Family FoundationPaul S. Nadler Family Charitable TrustGlenn and Sherri OsakaKatie and Matt PaigeWilliam D. Parent Charitable AccountWill and Julie ParishMarcia and Robert PopperJoseph and Julie RatnerAlbert and Roxanne RichardsJulie and Christopher RidleyMiranda and Russell RisingDavid and Sharon RobbEileen H. RodriguezMr. and Mrs. Ray RothrockRucker FamilyChris and Anna SaccheriSanjay B. Saxena and Tejal A. DesaiJohn SellEd Snyder and Cindy PellissierAndrew and Elizabeth SpokesSrinija Srinivasan FundWilliam and Barbara StrakaSteve and Diana StrandbergTowse-Kendall Family FundJack and Helen Tramiel,

Survivors of the HolocaustJearl Walker

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INDIVIDUAL GIVING

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Tantek CelikJennifer Chaiken and Margaret HamiltonJulie ChaikenBrandon ChalkDavid and Karin ChamberlainDr. William Chan and Mrs. Gayle L. ChanElise M. ChapmanRichard ChengHarry Chesley and Suzana SebanDonald H. Cheu, MDLee and Amy ChristelWilliam Chuang and Pia DeLeonAdam Clammer and Kate ClammerJillian and Rick ClarkDiane and Bill ClarkeSusan Cluff and Neil RudolphAndy Coblentz and Shari LibickiMrs. Jaime B. CohenColonel William L. CopeKatherine Copic and Daniel SpoonhowerDr. Ramon C. CortinesFred Cox and Jessica CoxNolan, Evan, Kimberly, and Keith CoxLarry CubaMichael DahlmanPeter B. Danzig and Lava ThomasGreg Darrah and Stefanie FricanoPhilip Davidson, In Memory

of Susan M. DavidsonDonald Davis and Susan TahawiElizabeth DawsonHal Dawson and Mary McVeyCathy and Sandy Dean

Joshua S. Dillon, PhDPatricia S. DinnerManuel Alcantra Donesa Jr. and

Louie Alcantra DonesaMichael and Caroline DonohueDaniel L. DrakeMartha Ehrenfeld and Carla McKayJessica and Michael EislerJacqueline and Christian ErdmanJo Falcon and Bill SpearsTimothy and Carolyn FerrisFrank FischerJason M. Fish and Courtney BenoistJay Folberg and Diana TaylorGary Frankel and Lisa RedfernTom FrankelSarah GalloHelen T. Gan and Carrie Gan ErginSuzanne GarciaKimberly and Jonathan GarfinkelTed and Frances GeballeRobert GerrityMariela and Richard GersteinAnn and Gordon Getty FoundationAdele GoldbergFlorence GongWilliam B. Grant, PhDJerry GummesonHolly Hagens and Todd SisitskyDenise HaleJoseph Han and Amy LumMeagan and Peter HanburyMichelle and Michael Hanna

Ted J. HannigJames and Katherine HansenMichael and Marilyn HarrymanBrian K. Harvey, PhDHassan FamilyMark Henderson and Laura TauberMichael and Julie HennesseyKevin and Jenise HenriksonEllen HensonDr. Brendan HermalynPeter Hertzmann and Jill M. ChinenScott and Nancy HindesAsiff Hirji and Sarah WigglesworthDr. Peter and Dorian HirthHoenigman Family FoundationJonathan Howard and Tracy L. KaplanChris Hsu and Stella WotherspoonPamela IllianRobert and Riki IntnerBarbara and Carl JacobsonJay and Robin JeffriesBryan Johnson and Jocelyn GoldfeinElizabeth JohnsonKarla JonesHelen KahnInga Karliner and Jon ThalerKASA PartnersHidetomo KatsuraBarbara and Ron KaufmanThe Keon-Vitale FamilySusan Keyes and James SulatEugene Kim and Christine KimJohn Kirkwood

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Michael J. Kirsch FoundationAnna Hom and Paul KoLauren Kowal and Andrew KowalRobert and Karen KustelElizabeth KwanBarbara LawrenceAva Lee and David BellshawJohn E. LeeRebecca LeeMarfa LevineKian-Tat Lim and Jennie ChangKenneth Lin and Siriwan SinghasiriJennifer L. LinderDavid A. LindesTom Lockard and Alix MarduelLoud Hound FoundationDavid Low and Dominique LahaussoisElvira LowRoger M. LowGeorge Lucas Family FoundationLisa Luna Smith and Jeff SmithCynthia and Kent LundbergDavid and Cathryn LymanMelissa Ma and Cy MaHolly and Steve MasseyKazumi Matsuyama and Douglas SteedmanKarin and Greg McCluneFlicka McGurrinYasmine S. MehmetShenban Meng and Chenyu ChenMason and Anna MorfitDoug and Yvonne MorganRand Morimoto and Ana Henderson

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of the Walton Family FoundationRobert and Donys PowellMary M. PrchalAlice and Tom PulliamDavid Purdie and Michele Forté PurdieCarl and Sandy QuongDaniel RabinRadu RadutaRobyn ReissKanwal and Ann RekhiPeter A. RequeThe Riccitiello FamilyBeverly Riehm and Randall BorcherdingVerrill and Wilbur RinehartGerald and Jenny RiskAlan and Georgia RittenbergAnmarie RoacheWill and Sissy Robbins

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William and Mikiko WalkerGregory Wallace, 191666David and Rebecca WeeklyKeith and Sandra WellsAmy Wender-Hoch and John Hoch

Todd Werby and Nonie GreeneMr. Gregory S. Williams

and Mrs. Lesley A. WilliamsPat WilsonJon and Marsha Witkin

Frank and Annie WoodsRoy B. WoolseyCliff and Donna YokomizoThe Zehner FamilyJoshua and Courtney Zucker

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PARTY AT THE PIERS: ALCHEMY

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Gala Supporter Akkadian VenturesAmgen, Inc.BlackRock Financial ManagementCoblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass, LLPDodge & CoxEHDDHammel, Green, and Abrahamson, Inc.Jazz Venture PartnersKaiser PermanenteMatt ConstructionMcGriff Insurance ServicesMeyers NaveNibbi Brothers ConstructionOneRhythm LLCOracle CorporationPower Engineering Construction Co.RSMSidley Austin LLPThe Pace Gallery LLCWilson Meany L.P.

INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS

Gold SponsorJennifer Caldwell and John H. N. FisherGeorge W. Cogan and Fannie AllenRam and Vijay Shriram

Silver SponsorWilliam K. Bowes, Jr. FoundationGermaine and Jonathan HeiligerMerrill and Van KasperMr. and Mrs. Michael L. MauzéStephanie and Bill MellinKen and Kris MooreJennifer Van Natta

Copper SponsorAnonymousRavin and Alka AgrawalBengier FoundationDan and Stacey Case Family FoundationRoberta and Steven DenningDavid deWilde and Katherine August-deWildeMartha Ehmann Conte

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Charles and Roberta KatzKoret FoundationSue and Phil MarineauDeedee J. McMurtryJennifer and Frances RaininCraig Silverstein and Mary ObelnickiEllie and Skip SmithPhoebe White and Burke Norton

Chromium SponsorJohn and Nancy CassidySarah Cogan and Douglas EvansThe Julie and Greg Flynn Family FundJosie and Dan HaspelFrances HellmanJ. Michael HorwitzMichael Jacobson and Trine SorensenLaurie and Josh OlshanskyVincent L. and Jean RicciAlbert and Roxanne RichardsLynn and Peter WendellJim and Lia WhiteheadDiane B. Wilsey

Gala DonorAnonymous (3)Willie and Peggy AlfordJohn and Amanda Anderson

Anthony G. AvilaPeter BarrettDennis and Suzi BartelsAmbar K. BhattacharyyaStephen and Diane BienemanGay-Lynn BlandingSabrina Buell and Yves BeharCarolyn and Preston ButcherMitchell and Susan CohenLaurie and Alan DachsTroy and Leslie DanielsGretchen De BaubignyDavid and Camille DibbleAdmiral James O. EllisJudy EstrinAlison Scott and Seth Pedder FergusonSharon Flanagan and Patrick GalvinChris FlinkJennifer FonstadPamela Kay Frost and Daniel Ray FrostJonathan Adam Gans and Abigail K. TurinStanlee GattiGlasser Family FundMiriam and Peter Haas FundJim and Cecilia HerbertChristopher and Deirdre HockettLaura and Gary LauderRebecca Lee

Evan Marwell and Tracy LeedsNion McEvoy and Leslie BerrimanShweta and Amish MehtaMordesovich-Chase Family Charitable Fund

of Horizons FoundationSunil Nagaraj and Mary Kate Stimmler NagarajMrs. Sheila B. NahiFarzad Nazem and Noosheen HashemiRalph I. PeerJason Phillips and Sheila SchroederZakia RahmanBrian and Ann RobertsJohn Rohrer and Shona BrownSteve SeelbachJavier Soltero and Emily Morris SolteroJohn and Deborah SteinbuchDavid and Susan TunnellAaron Vermut and Adriana López VermutStephan Vermut and Barbara VermutWilliam and Kathleen VolkmannJudy L. WadeAllison K. WalshMichael and Julie WhitcombFaye Constance WilsonMr. David A. WollenbergRichard and Wendy YanowitchDavid Yu and Gretchen Wustrack

PARTY AT THE PIERS: ALCHEMY

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Our thanks to the friends who helped support the Exploratorium Capital Campaign with gifts made between 2012 and 2019.

Anonymous (3)Dennis and Suzi BartelsThe Bengier FoundationWilliam K. Bowes, Jr. FoundationGeorge W. Cogan and Fannie AllenTroy and Leslie DanielsDhanam FoundationRobin and Chris DonohoeWilliam H. Draper III and Phyllis C. Draper Fund

Tony and Sarah EarleyBrewster and Nancy ElyEucalyptus FoundationThe Julie and Greg Flynn Family FundLynn and Anisya FritzFrances Hellman and Warren BreslauScott and Nancy HindesMichael Jacobson and Trine SorensenFranklin and Catherine JohnsonRupert and Maryellie JohnsonThe Charles and Roberta Katz

Family FoundationKoret Foundation

Robert and Connie LurieSue and Phil MarineauKen and Kris MooreOak Meadow FoundationBarbara Perlman-WhymanVincent and Jean RicciArthur Rock and Toni Rembe RockSakana FoundationCraig Silverstein and Mary ObelnickiSkip and Ellie SmithStupski FoundationDan Yue

EXPLORATORIUM CAPITAL CAMPAIGN

OPPENHEIMER CIRCLE

Members of the Oppenheimer Circle help ensure the future of the Exploratorium through their personal support and legacy gifts.

Anonymous (7)Anonymous—In Memory of Mary BrownPhilip and Mary AlbertDonna M. AlbertusAnthony J. AlfidiDean AndersonRobert A. AsadorianMs. Charna BallDennis and Suzi BartelsEstate of William K. Bowes, Jr.Frish Brandt and August FischerMarcus Brooks and Donna L. StuedemanMarjorie Hom Brown

Diana BuchbinderJoseph CastrovinciRilla McCubbins ChaneyDiane and William L. ClarkeGeorge W. CoganColonel William L. CopeRobert D. CormiaCeleste Dela CalzadaAlan D. EntineLawrence M. FaganDavid FainJo Falcon and William E. SpearsM. Jean FisherSusan FlooreWilliam Fries FoundationLynn FritzEllis and Jennifer Gans

Aradhana GhoshFlorence GongJosh Gutwill and Laura WiseLinda HalickiHerbie HarmanBrian HarveyJames A. HeagyMarilyn Dobbs HigueraScott HindesSigna I. HoughtelingCory Iwatsu and Kirk LivelyAnne Jennings & Andy StacklinMaurice S. KanbarMr. and Mrs. F. Van KasperBruce Kau and Linda HansenMrs. Ellen KippAman Ishaan Kumar

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Richard Laiderman and Jung-Wha SongMichael A. LampertMrs. L. W. Lane, Jr.Jude LaspaRebecca LeeChristine Lemor-DrakeAllan S. LeonardJo MarkovichPaul Massonherbert a masters IIIAmy McCombsChuck MignaccoMr. J. Sanford Miller

James R. MurphyAlice MusbachRuediger Naumann-EtienneJohn R. NelsonTom M. NguyenCharles and Diane PaskerianGilberto Perez and Rosa VilchisRegina PhelpsCameron PhlegerRobert and Marcia PopperVincent L. and Jean RicciDavid A. RobbJeanne Rose

Peter SargentJack SchiffhauerEllie and Skip SmithKathryn StegnerWilliam and Barbara StrakaEstate of Joyce TalalKathe TraynorSusan A. Van WagnerSandy WilliamsBrian and Melissa WongAnders Yang

OPPENHEIMER CIRCLE

ENDOWMENT DONORS

Special thanks to donors that have made significant contributions in support of our endowment.

The Bengier FoundationColumbia FoundationGlasser Family FundWilliam R. HewlettFranklin and Catherine JohnsonJeanne T. MooreDr. and Mrs. Bernard M. OliverMax Palevsky and Jodie EvansSakana Foundation

Named Endowment FundsAnonymous donor, on behalf of the eBay

User CommunityEndowment for the Bowes Education CenterJohn P. Britton Education FundJim Clark Endowment for Internet EducationLeslie and Troy Daniels Fund for ExcellenceTroy and Leslie Daniels Fund for Life SciencesFleishhacker Foundation FundHambrecht Teacher-in-Residence FellowshipBarrett & Margaret Hindes Foundation

Endowment for Exhibit Development and Maintenance

Rupert and Maryellie Johnson Fund for Education

William Randolph Hearst Foundation Fund for Education Programs

Koshland Foundation FundWalter Landor Endowment

for Creative ExplorationLouis R. Lurie Foundation Endowment

for ExplainersMcBean Family Foundation Endowment

for Webcast ProgrammingNoyce Fund for Teacher EducationThe Bernard Osher Foundation FellowshipsSilver Giving Explainer FundPhyllis C. Wattis Fund for Artists-in-ResidencePhyllis C. Wattis Fund for Capital ImprovementsPhyllis C. Wattis Fund for ExhibitionsPhyllis C. Wattis Fund for Teacher Training

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The Exploratorium relies on the generosity of corporate supporters to bring our education programs to young people and their teachers. We extend our gratitude to our Luminary Partners and corporate sponsors.

Luminary Partners

Corporate SupportersAkkadian VenturesAmgen, Inc.Asset Management CompanyBain & Company, Inc.Bank of AmericaBlackRock Financial ManagementCalifornia Bank & TrustCharles Schwab & Co., Inc.

Chase Arts and Culture ProgramChevron CorporationCitadelCoblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass, LLPDodge & CoxEHDDEndless WestFirst Republic BankFort Point Beer Co.Golden State Warriors FoundationGood Eggs, Inc.Google, Inc.Hammel, Green, and Abrahamson, Inc.Hanson Bridgett LLPHeffernan Financial ServicesHint Inc.IDEO LPIntero FoundationJamestown LPJazz Venture PartnersKaiser PermanenteKPMG LLPKumon North America, Inc.Levi Strauss & CompanyMatson FoundationMatt ConstructionMcGriff Insurance ServicesMeyers NaveMUFG Union BankNational GeographicNibbi Brothers General Contractors, Inc.

Oracle CorporationParticlePinterestPower Engineering Construction Co.PrologisRSM US LLPSidley Austin LLPSoFiThe Moody’s FoundationThe New York TimesThe Pace Gallery LLCTulloch CorporationUDC Inc.United AirlinesVISAWideOrbit Inc.Wilson Meany L.P.

Matching GiftsThank you to the following institutions for matching their employees’ gifts.

Adobe Systems IncorporatedAllianceBernsteinApple, Inc.Autodesk, Inc.CA TechnologiesChevron CorporationThe Clorox CompanyThe Walt Disney Company FoundationEmerson Electric Company

CORPORATE SUPPORTERS

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ExxonMobil CorporationGoldman SachsGoogle, Inc.Hewlett-Packard CompanyIBM CorporationKeysight Technologies

KLA-Tencor CorporationLinkedInMicrosoft CorporationGordon and Betty Moore Foundation MonsantoNetflix, Inc.

Oracle CorporationPayPal, Inc.Salesforce.orgTexas Instruments, Inc.VISAWells Fargo & Company

CORPORATE SUPPORTERS

GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE FOUNDATION SUPPORTERS

We are grateful for the involvement of our government partners and foundation supporters, who make it possible for us to bring extraordinary programs to the public, both locally and internationally.

Luminary Partners California Department of Education

S. D. Bechtel Jr. FoundationThe Robert Brownlee FoundationFrank A. Campini FoundationJohn & Marcia Goldman FoundationEvelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. FundWalter and Elise Haas FundChristian Humann FoundationMoore Family FoundationNational Endowment of the HumanitiesPisces FoundationThe Society for California Archaeology

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We are grateful to the following individuals and organizations that made in-kind donations from July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2019.

Cultivar WineFort Point Beer Co.Hint Inc.Hotaling & Co. Importer/DistillerHumboldt DistilleryMr. Stephen M. LabovskyThe New York TimesNorth Channel SpiritsOld Elk Distilleries, LLCParticle

Pi BarPurity OrganicRG Nets Inc.Royal Dutch DistillersJack SchiffhauerSnapFiestaSymmetry LabsThree Babes BakeshopUnited Airlines

GIFTS IN KIND

031EXPLORATORIUM IMPACT REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2019 OPERATING INCOME AND EXPENSES

FY2019 EXPLORATORIUM PRELIMINARY ACTUALS

Total revenue: $48.15M

Final audited financial statements for FY19 will be available in the fall of 2019.

Total expenses: $47.82M

Marketing$2.3M

Programs$29.12MVisitor Experience, Design & Development, Educator Engagement, Global Collaborations, Volunteers & Program Support

Earned Revenue$25.96MAdmissions, Program Earned, Government Contracts, Museum Rentals, Membership, Retail, Pier 17

Administration$10.14MExecutive Office, Finance, IT, Institutional Advancement, Organizational Development

Contributed Income (Unrestricted)$8.39MGeneral Operating Support, Special Events

Contributed Income (Restricted)$13.8MProgram Restricted, Endowment

Campus & Facilities$6.26MFacilities & Architecture, Pier 17, Museum Rentals