Silicon Valley favorites include the Tech Museum in San Jose and the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
All the data will also be available for free on the Exploratorium's website.
CNN: San Francisco's Exploratorium opens in sparkling new home
The Exploratorium was originally opened in that location in 1969 by physicist Frank Oppenheimer.
CNN: San Francisco's Exploratorium opens in sparkling new home
Now the Exploratorium is releasing its second free educational iPad app, called Sound Uncovered.
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And in the Exploratorium's shiny new space, the experience is just as much for adults as it is for children.
CNN: San Francisco's Exploratorium opens in sparkling new home
"The Exploratorium is really a laboratory, " said senior scientist Ron Hipschman, who has been with the Exploratorium for 41 years.
CNN: San Francisco's Exploratorium opens in sparkling new home
The new quarters have taken the original spirit and contents of the old Exploratorium and given them a sophisticated makeover.
CNN: San Francisco's Exploratorium opens in sparkling new home
San Francisco (CNN) -- At the Exploratorium, one does not stand stiffly in front of musty exhibits and read tiny placards.
CNN: San Francisco's Exploratorium opens in sparkling new home
The culture of the Exploratorium has long been intertwined with the Maker Faire, the Bay Area festival that celebrates do-it-yourself projects.
CNN: San Francisco's Exploratorium opens in sparkling new home
Founded in 1969, the Exploratorium is preparing for its opening in its massive new digs at Pier 15 on San Francisco Bay.
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Furthermore, the Exploratorium aspires to make the pier a net zero building, meaning it will eventually generate as much energy as it uses.
CNN: San Francisco's Exploratorium opens in sparkling new home
Education remains a major focus of the Exploratorium, which hosts webcasts, builds apps, trains science teachers and sells exhibits to other museums around the world.
CNN: San Francisco's Exploratorium opens in sparkling new home
One day he stumbled into the Exploratorium, a San Francisco museum dedicated to the natural world and the forces that shape it, and he was hooked.
At the Exploratorium in San Francisco, children will gather around what's described as a Pi Day shrine to sing Pi Day songs and perform Pi Day rites.
When the doors open on Wednesday morning, crowds of fans will find that the unique atmosphere, which people loved about the original Exploratorium, made the move intact.
CNN: San Francisco's Exploratorium opens in sparkling new home
She is a recipient of numerous awards, including the AERA Scholars of Color Distinguished Scholar Award, the AERA Division C Sylvia Scribner Award, a Bernard Osher Fellowship with the Exploratorium Museum of Science, and a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences.
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