Impact Report 2020 Table of Contents

WELCOME FROM THE EXPLORING CELLS TO SELF, 03 LIVING SYSTEMS LAB 15 A NEW EXHIBIT COLLECTION

WHY WE DO WE EXPLORE TOGETHER— 04 WHAT WE DO 17 WHEREVER WE ARE

ENGAGING EDUCATORS LETTER FROM 05 DURING A PANDEMIC 18 CHRIS FLINK

THE CAMBIO PROJECT AND OPERATING INCOME 07 LATINX BELONGING 19 AND EXPENSES

MIDDLE GROUND IN THANK YOU TO 10 SF’S CIVIC CENTER 20 OUR SUPPORTERS

TRISTAN DUKE’S 13 APERTURE LUCIDA

On the cover: Play with Sophisticated Shadows, Colored Shadows, or our other shadow exhibits, and you’ll notice that shadows can be surprisingly complex. Here, multiple light sources illuminate a single object—a foam “O” salvaged from our Exhibit Development Shop— to create colorful overlapping shadows. Welcome! LAB NOTES FROM A RESIDENT MICROSCOPIST

As a Living Systems lab tech, I love interacting I often facilitate at our Bio Bar, “serving up” like everyone else’s! It’s personal, yet universal. with Exploratorium visitors. Our doors are microscopic demonstrations: the visible DNA At the Bio Bar, not only families recognize how closed to the public as I write this, so I’m glad of a fruit fly, the moment of fertilization between amazingly similar they are at a cellular level; to greet you here. I hope you’ll enjoy these sea urchin gametes, or comparing cheek cell diverse school groups witness it too. stories of the collaborations and connections samples from two or more visitors. Visitors you helped make possible this year. “choose their own adventure,” and it’s their When we get up close with the microscopic questions, reactions, and actual cells that world, we can broaden our minds and give When I interact with visitors, I’m reminded of make these experiences possible. ourselves a different view that’s useful in our my elementary school days, when I charted own lives. So zoom in. What do you have to learn? my life course to becoming a scientist—during I’ve had the pleasure of observing a breadth of a school assembly on marine biology, presented “No way!” reactions in my visitor-collaborators. by a science research institution. Now with every For example, I like to point out that the tiny discovery I help facilitate under the microscope, blue blob at a cheek cell’s center may look I hope our visitors, too, get a glimpse into the insignificant, but it contains every inch of the Veronica Johnson life of a scientist. As scientists, we passionately six-foot-long DNA strand that makes an individual Lab Technician explore, question, and uncover the world in unique. No matter who you are, your cheek cells Gallery 4: Living Systems ever-new ways. are uniquely yours, and yet they also look just

EXPLORATORIUM IMPACT REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2020 WELCOME FROM THE LIVING SYSTEMS LAB 03 Here’s why we do what we do. THE EXPLORATORIUM’S MISSION, VISION, AND VALUES 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. We value lifelong learning and teaching, curiosity and inquiry, our community, iteration and evidence, integrity and authenticity, sustainability, and inclusion and respect.

EXPLORATORIUM IMPACT REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2020 WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO 04 Can we teach hands-on science—and connect— wherever we are?

ENGAGING EDUCATORS DURING A PANDEMIC

These days, coping with isolation is something to which we can all relate.

But if you’re a teacher, on the morning of March 14, 2020, you were tasked with much more: rebuilding your classroom community online and keeping young people engaged, despite their isolation and yours. Your lessons required adaptation; your students had wildly different tools at home and access to resources; and, as a science teacher, students and families were looking to you for answers to this new and scary situation.

The shift in the learning environment created by the COVID-19 pandemic was stark, both physically and emotionally. Fortunately, the Exploratorium’s Teaching and Learning team was ready to help. Environmental scientist Dr. Suzanne Pierre in her backyard. While stuck at home, she and the rest of the Exploratorium’s Teaching and Learning team are finding creative ways to support their fellow educators, including “Sidewalk Science” workshops on discovering the plants in your own neighborhood.

EXPLORATORIUM IMPACT REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2020 ENGAGING EDUCATORS DURING A PANDEMIC 05 “I never expected to be an online teacher. Without these positive examples, I don’t know where I would have started.”

They tapped into the Exploratorium’s California Leading up to Earth Day, Suzanne and Lori Statewide Science Leader Network, a robust presented two workshops that prepared teachers community of teachers and education leaders, with the tools to bring environmental science to EXPANDING OUR ABILITY TO in order to discover, “What do teachers need life in their own online classrooms—along with the TEACH TEACHERS ONLINE most right now?” The answer was confidence. space they craved to ask questions and connect. In a little over 10 weeks—between March 18, their And connection. first online workshop on the science of viruses, Suzanne and Lori then hosted a public, online and the end of May—the Exploratorium’s Teaching So the Exploratorium team expanded resources Earth Day program on April 22. Segments and Learning team: and partnerships and used their decades-long addressed broad environmental science topics, • hosted 20 online workshops • partnered with four other education- expertise in online learning to reach more such as climate change and pollution, as well focused organizations educators than ever before. In a world of as conversations on environmental justice and • and connected 3,197 teachers and unknowns, the Exploratorium worked to activities intended to connect viewers with their teacher leaders and approximately provide a home base where educators could immediate environments. The aim was to build 10,000 early childhood educators to resources they needed to succeed. build resources and strategies—together. confidence around environmental education in the many adults—both educators and caregivers— The impact of this work has been immediate and With April 22 fast approaching, our new now supporting students in new ways, and from powerful. Said one workshop participant: environmental educator Dr. Suzanne Pierre a wide variety of home bases. “I am so thankful for the online classes that I have teamed up with veteran Exploratorium educator attended with the Exploratorium this year. I never Lori Lambertson to focus the team’s efforts on The resulting program was watched around would have expected to be an online teacher, Earth Day. It was an opportunity to bring 10,000 times on April 22 alone and has (literally) and without these positive examples I don’t know together the needs of teachers, the needs gone down in history; the United States Library where I would have started. They provided me with the confidence to lead other teachers in of families, and a fresh look at virtual learning. of Congress selected it for inclusion in its Earth engaging in this new realm we are living in, and Day 2020 Web Archive. they gave me the framework for providing online classes to students myself.”

EXPLORATORIUM IMPACT REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2020 ENGAGING EDUCATORS DURING A PANDEMIC 06 Dr. Isabel Hawkins demonstrates the indigenous technology of the Q’eswachaka suspension rope bridge in the Peruvian Andes with young visitors on Latinx Engineering Day at the Exploratorium.

THE CAMBIO PROJECT AND How does a museum LATINX BELONGING At its core, the Exploratorium is a research and development museum. Beyond our work create belonging for developing ways to exhibit phenomena, our Visitor Research and Evaluation team also studies how we engage audiences. As a community museum with a successful track Latinx communities? record of inquiry-based exhibit development for sister institutions worldwide, it’s crucial for the Exploratorium to be responsive to the needs

EXPLORATORIUM IMPACT REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2020 THE CAMBIO PROJECT AND LATINX BELONGING 07 and aspirations of many overlapping communities—including the diverse Latinx communities. That’s where Cambio (“change” in Spanish), our 2020 National Science Foundation award, comes in. This five-year project, our collaboration with the Cultural Competency Learning Institute, a partnership led by the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose, aims to build Latinx-focused cultural competence across the field of informal science education through professional development.

Cambio’s focus on authentic exchange between museums and Latinx communities requires museums to have a nuanced understanding of how diverse the communities are. The authenticity comes from truly infusing every aspect of the museum, from marketing to visitor experiences, with respect for Latinx perspectives and identities. That means co-creating STEM experiences with Latinx communities, increased Latinx representation in all departments and levels of management, and data analysis in conjunction with community dialogue.

Cambio’s ultimate goals are transformative: a museum field that is inclusive of Latinx communities, cultures, and audiences at all levels of the organization; cultural competency in every museum worker; and achieving sustainable change. This initiative builds on 15 years of work at the Exploratorium around Latinx audience engagement, and is a direct outgrowth of our 2017 NSF-funded summit GENIAL. GENIAL participants and organizers celebrate after the summit’s first day of sessions.

EXPLORATORIUM IMPACT REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2020 THE CAMBIO PROJECT AND LATINX BELONGING 08 Authenticity comes from infusing every aspect of the museum with respect for Latinx perspectives.

Making Latinx cultural responsiveness part of the fabric of institutions will amplify the Cambio is co-led by intersection between Latinx identities and Veronica Garcia-Luis, Jenni Martin, and STEM. This compromiso, or commitment, is Dr. Isabel Hawkins well expressed by Veronica Garcia-Luis, one (left to right). of Cambio’s three co-principal investigators: BRINGING LIVED EXPERIENCE TO WORK “The essence of the work is to support Cambio is crucial to our field because many Latinx “Being the first in my family to go to college brought audiences don’t identify with the culture of museums. museum practitioners to increase their a series of realizations, including that I didn’t know On a personal level, it’s also crucial to Veronica I could work in museums, I didn’t grow up going to expertise in designing experiences that will Garcia-Luis, who co-leads the project in addition to them, and I figured they were not for me,” Veronica invoke emotional engagement, spark curiosity, her role as our Program Director of Diversity, Equity, says. “Little did I know that the Exploratorium and the and build excitement. We are committed to and Inclusion, because as a young Latina, she never museum field would become my professional journey.” saw herself as a part of the museum world. doing this in ways that explicitly value our Cambio is a collaborative project co-led by Latinx identities and make visible the rich Only when Veronica got a job at the UCLA Wight Garcia-Luis and Dr. Isabel Hawkins, both of the legacy of STEM in our communities.” Art Gallery, as a bilingual gallery educator for their Exploratorium, and Jenni Martin of the Children’s Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation exhibition, Discovery Museum of San Jose and the Cultural Cambio and GENIAL are based upon work did she realize that she not only belonged in the Competency Learning Institute. supported by the National Science Foundation museum world—she and other Latinx were needed under Grant Nos. 1906595 and 1611143. there. Today Veronica uses both her cultural and lived Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or experiences and her educational and professional recommendations expressed in this material background to inform her work and guide the are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily Exploratorium on our learning journey. reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

EXPLORATORIUM IMPACT REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2020 THE CAMBIO PROJECT AND LATINX BELONGING 09 Can we build empathy, one exhibit at a time?

MIDDLE GROUND IN SF’S CIVIC CENTER Even before COVID-19 reshaped our social interactions, most of us walked through the city in an imaginary bubble, rarely pausing to connect, actively avoiding eye contact. But what if instead we created spaces for people to have a playful moment, think deeply, and connect with one another? What if we took the spirit of the Exploratorium’s exhibits, and put them in public spaces for anyone to find?

If you’ve walked past San Francisco Public Library’s main branch since August 2019, you probably spotted the collection of bright yellow chairs on its front steps. This free-to- all installation, Middle Ground, blends the Exploratorium’s learn-by-doing culture and the latest social science research. Fourteen interactive exhibits encourage both conversation and introspection. They invite passersby to consider stereotypes and bias, prosocial behavior, and social polarization. They even get strangers talking.

But the exhibits don’t do this alone. People are their partners—specifically, skilled stewards who care for and mediate the installation.

EXPLORATORIUM IMPACT REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2020 MIDDLE GROUND IN SF’S CIVIC CENTER 010 At Middle Ground, you’ll see strangers talking— often across social, racial, and ability lines.

These practitioners work for Urban Alchemy, The full Middle Ground experience only happens a San Francisco nonprofit and a key shaper of at Civic Center; as we write this, we’re working to the Middle Ground project. They facilitate the extend it beyond its temporary closure due to the WHAT IS URBAN ALCHEMY? experiences for visitors, mentoring, mediating, COVID-19 pandemic. However, you can explore Urban Alchemy is a San Francisco nonprofit that and encouraging thoughtful interaction. many of the ideas, videos, and interactives on aims to bring peace and respect to urban areas the Middle Ground website. And what we’ve struggling with extreme poverty, addiction, mental Middle Ground comes out of the Exploratorium’s learned from this extraordinary project will illness, and hopelessness. The organization Global Collaborations group, which works with continue to influence exhibits and experiences in prioritizes hiring individuals who experienced long-term incarceration and have dedicated partners both locally and worldwide. Project the Exploratorium’s Bernard and Barbro Osher themselves to healing and redemption through lead Shawn Lani says its aim is to “transform Gallery 1: Human Phenomena. service. the library’s plaza into a place comfortable enough, safe enough, and intriguing enough The installation was designed and developed by the These practitioners bring inclusive, prosocial leadership and their communication and to open up that wondrously massive human Exploratorium, in close partnership with the San Francisco Public Library, the Civic Center Commons Initiative, and negotiation skills to projects across San Francisco, capacity to question, explore, and learn.” other site partners. Middle Ground was funded by the working to ensure safe and clean public restroom National Science Foundation and Science Sandbox, a facilities, BART elevators, sidewalks, and parks Sometimes it can be hard to see the impact Simons Foundation initiative dedicated to inspiring a for everyone. Their involvement in Middle Ground deeper interest in science. challenged and inspired the Exploratorium team of museum exhibits. But at Middle Ground to think about engagement and public installation you’ll see the exhibits and stewards creating in a whole new way. visible, powerful moments of empathy. You’ll see strangers in Civic Center talking, laughing, and connecting—often across social, racial, and ability lines.

EXPLORATORIUM IMPACT REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2020 MIDDLE GROUND IN SF’S CIVIC CENTER 011 Middle Ground’s emphasis on social connection opened this Federal Court worker’s eyes (above left) to how little human contact she had at work. So she sat down Strangers often hold hands at Hands On Music to close the electrical circuit and made a sign saying “Hi!,” hoping someone would that makes music play. One day a visually-impaired visitor (above center) sat talk to her. Jesse Zamora, an Urban Alchemy steward, nearby, listening and tapping his toes. Another visitor invited him to join her, did just that. These two strangers—different enough but he demurred, saying he needed his cane to stand. But Zamora jumped that, ordinarily, their lives might never intersect—talked in to suggest that together they could steady him. They guided him into the deeply for more than half an hour. chain, for a moment of joyful connection.

EXPLORATORIUM IMPACT REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2020 MIDDLE GROUND IN SF’S CIVIC CENTER 012 Can a hologram illuminate how we’re all connected? TRISTAN DUKE’S APERTURE LUCIDA

Mind-bending plays on perception. Optical Duke’s journey to his final artwork at the illusions that use science and art. Playful Exploratorium was not a straight line. During investigations that encourage you to think the two years, he explored filming video with a about something in a new way. Artist Tristan lens made of ice, creating entirely new fabrication Duke and the Exploratorium’s Artist-in-Residence processes with the Exhibit Development Shop, (AIR) program have a lot in common. and more. This interdisciplinary dialogue, this dreaming and exploring, this creation of something The AIR program is a two-year journey that that simply wouldn’t be possible without deep begins with the exploration of myriad scientific collaboration and trust—these are hallmarks of principles and artistic ideas, progresses through the AIR program. By encouraging artists to work concepts and prototypes, and culminates in a hand in hand with the Exploratorium team, the thought-provoking work of art. program, Duke says, gives “birth to something that has never been seen before.”

EXPLORATORIUM IMPACT REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2020 TRISTAN DUKE’S APERTURE LUCIDA 013 A hallmark of the AIR program is creating something that would be impossible without deep collaboration and trust.

In February 2020, Duke’s culminating work as Artist-in-Residence, Aperture Lucida, was installed in the Exploratorium’s Black Box. Step into the installation space and you’ll see a ball of light floating in midair. Walk toward the illusion, enter it, and its mechanism becomes visible: light is being focused by a series of screens, drilled with half a million precisely aligned holes.

To Duke, the piece has a deeper meaning, which he has found particularly powerful as the global pandemic has forced us all into prolonged separation: “In the hologram, we find a striking physical demonstration of interconnectedness: break a hologram into pieces and in each separate shard, you will still glimpse the entire image. In this time of physical separation, I hope we can all remember our interconnectedness— and access the knowledge that the whole is truly contained in each of us.”

EXPLORATORIUM IMPACT REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2020 TRISTAN DUKE’S APERTURE LUCIDA 014 Artist-in-Residence Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Chelsea E. Manning’s Probably Chelsea, 2017.

EXPLORING CELLS TO SELF, Does your DNA A NEW EXHIBIT COLLECTION Whatever you learned about cells in school, the picture is infinitely more complex. define you? Yes, cells are the building blocks of all living organisms. But cells also act as timekeepers, alarm systems, “microphones” that perceive sound, and much more. How all these cells work together to make you you is the topic of Cells to Self, a permanent collection of life science exhibits unveiled in fall 2019.

EXPLORATORIUM IMPACT REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2020 EXPLORING CELLS TO SELF, A NEW EXHIBIT COLLECTION 015 Your cells act as timekeepers, alarm systems, microphones, and more.

Cells to Self exhibits allow visitors to zoom in on a fascinating microscopic world. Get a startling view of your own skin, scars, or tattoos at the Self Scope; see live human heart cells mimic your heart rate at Give Heart Cells a Beat; or feel the length of a neuron (your body’s longest cell) via an electrical pulse at Nerve Journey. In Give Heart Cells a Beat, grab hold of the heart rate sensor and watch the live, beating human heart cells on the screen—you’ll see their rhythmic contractions adjust to match your heart beat. But beyond physical complexity, cell biology can also shed light on complex questions of Now that HeLa cells have lived and divided by Dewey-Hagborg extracted and interpreted ethics and identity. trillions for seven decades in labs around the Manning’s DNA to create this set of 3D-printed world, are they still Henrietta Lacks? And to portraits: 20 possible faces, all interpretations of Consider—are your cells you? This question is whom do they belong? the same genetic information. posed by a Cells to Self exhibit about “HeLa” cells and the person they came from, Henrietta And your DNA—how much does it determine Cells to Self reminds us that biology plays only Lacks. This “immortal” human cell line divides who you are? We know that DNA dictates our one part in the formation of “you,” that science is indefinitely and helped revolutionize biomedical eye color, our nose shape, even aspects of our not neutral and carries its own ethical challenges, research, from the polio vaccine to studying personality. But with how much precision are and that art can bring the possibilities of biological human tissue in space. But the original HeLa those instructions carried out? science to light. cells—cervical cancer cells—were sampled from Cells to Self is a multi-year initiative encompassing both Lacks, an African American mother of five who You can ponder that at artist Heather Dewey- exhibit development and museum visitor research projects. died of her cancer shortly after, in 1951 without Hagborg’s piece Probably Chelsea, produced It is made possible through the generous support of the her knowledge or consent. Troy and Leslie Daniels Fund for Life Sciences and from in collaboration with activist and whistleblower Genentech, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Chelsea Manning. and the National Science Foundation under grants 1514612, 1612831, 1322828, and 1548297.

EXPLORATORIUM IMPACT REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2020 EXPLORING CELLS TO SELF, A NEW EXHIBIT COLLECTION 016 We explore together— wherever we are.

During shelter in place, we continued to expand our global movement of tinkerers through social media invitations like #RoundTheWorld_ChainReaction and #LightUpOurDays. Thank you for joining us in the joy of learning through play.

Photos (clockwise from top left) courtesy of Casey Federico, Jennifer Frazier, Bradley Quentin, Deanna Gelosi, Lamplighter School, Luigi Anzivino, and Deanna Gelosi.

EXPLORATORIUM IMPACT REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2020 WE EXPLORE TOGETHER—WHEREVER WE ARE 017 Ask questions. Question answers. Together.

Breakthroughs are rarely made by one person Global Collaborations team co-creates with You, our esteemed donors, are indispensable working alone. a diverse range of partners around the world. partners too. Your generosity has propelled us through 51 years of learning and growing. When That’s not how science or innovation typically This year, the global COVID-19 pandemic the pandemic required us to close our doors, work. Complex problems are best solved challenged us to rethink how we collaborate. you went above and beyond to help sustain the with skilled collaborators, who ask questions, And the renewed momentum of the Black Lives Exploratorium. question answers, build on one another’s Matter movement and the societal reckoning ideas, and debate assumptions. with police brutality against Black people We are phenomenally grateful. Your continued further opened our eyes to the importance support is essential and gets us closer and closer You need a partner to get the most out of many of holding space for the expertise and to recovery. I can’t wait to invite you all back into of our interactive exhibits, too—and doesn’t it feel experiences of Black, Indigenous, and People our museum to make new discoveries—together. terrific to share your “aha!” moment with a friend? of Color in everything we do. Thank you, At the Exploratorium, no one works alone. The Exploratorium is only at its best when our Artists collaborate with talented makers in our smart and passionate community of staff and Exhibit Development Shop. Visiting researchers partners thrives. We continue to evolve and are work with Living Systems staff and our educators working to improve as a more equitable and Chris Flink to bring new learning experiences to life. Our anti-racist organization. Sakurako and William Fisher Executive Director

EXPLORATORIUM IMPACT REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2020 LETTER FROM CHRIS FLINK 018 FY2020 EXPLORATORIUM PRELIMINARY ACTUALS

Total revenue: $39.42M Total expenses: $46.18M

Contributed Income Marketing (Unrestricted) $2.42M $7.41M Programs General Operating Support, $28.42M Special Events Visitor Experience, Design & Development, Educator Engagement, Campus & Facilities Earned Revenue Global Collaborations, $5.95M $21.34M Volunteers & Program Facilities & Architecture, Support Pier 17, Museum Rentals Admissions, Program Earned, Government Contracts, Contributed Income Museum Rentals, Membership, (Restricted) Retail, Pier 17 $10.67M Program Restricted, Administration Endowment $9.39M Executive Office, Finance, IT, Institutional Advancement, Organizational Development

In addition to the income listed above, the Exploratorium applied for and received a $5.8M loan from the Payroll Protection Program (PPP) under the 2020 CARES Act.

Final audited financial statements for FY20 will be available in the fall of 2020.

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Our thanks to the friends who helped support Germaine and Jonathan Heiliger Judy Estrin the Exploratorium with gifts made July 1, 2019, The Christian Humann Foundation Roger Evans and Aey Phanachet to June 30, 2020. Their generosity provided The Dirk and Charlene Kabcenell Foundation Mrs. Donald G. Fisher much-needed resources to help deepen our Roberta and Charles Katz John and Marcia Goldman Foundation impact on science education and interactive Vinod and Neeru Khosla Sara G. Griffith/Griffith Family Foundation learning worldwide. Richard Laiderman and Jung-Wha Song Caryl and Mickey Hart Mr. and Mrs. Jude Laspa Kelson Foundation Exploratorium Trust Alison and Michael Mauzé Michael A. Lampert The Bengier Foundation Stephanie and Bill Mellin Laura and Gary Lauder Advised Fund at Aspen George W. Cogan and Fannie Allen Gordon and Betty Moore Community Foundation Martha Ehmann Conte Michael Moritz and Harriet Heyman Marissa Mayer and Zack Bogue Frances Hellman and Warren Breslau Laurie and Josh Olshansky Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman Michael Jacobson and Trine Sorensen Cameron A. Phleger Kenneth and Vera Meislin Sue and Phil Marineau Nicholas J. Pritzker Kevin Primat, Primed Foundation The McMurtry Family Foundation Albert and Roxanne Richards Vincent L. and Jean Ricci Ken and Kris Moore Adriana and Aaron Vermut Miranda and Russell Rising Sakana Foundation Esther and Stan Wojcicki Mr. and Mrs. Ray Rothrock Ram and Vijay Shriram Roger Wu and Ruth Hauser Wu Shustek Dubinsky Family Philanthropic Fund Craig Silverstein and Mary Obelnicki Dan Yue Skip and Ellie Smith Jennifer Van Natta Mr. David A. Wollenberg Director’s Circle Richard Yonash Leadership Circle Anonymous David G. Yu Anonymous (2) Nicholas Baker and Lisa Stanton Ravin and Alka Agrawal Samantha and Darren Bechtel Catalyst Circle Jennifer Caldwell and John H. N. Fisher Dr. Margarita Bratkova and Solomon Boulos Anonymous (8) Terry and Anne Clark Marilyn Burns and Jeffrey Sellon Andrew J. Anagnost David deWilde and Katherine August-deWilde Barbara Carbone and Gregg Lyman Therese and David Arsenault Tony and Sarah Earley Robert Chin and Julia Zaks Liv Baalsrud Dana and Bob Emery and Family Clay Foundation - West Gordon Bell Eustace-Kwan Family Foundation William and Tammy Crown Stuart J. Berkowitz, Ph.D. David and Angela Filo Stephanie DiMarco and Jim Harleen Dr. Anthony Bernhardt and Ms. Lynn Feintech Sharon Flanagan and Patrick Galvin The Dolby Family J. Michael Bishop The Julie and Greg Flynn Family Fund The Elkes Foundation Ms. Meriko L. Borogove

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Richard D. Cheng Elizabeth Eyre Dr. Brendan Hermalyn Harry Chesley and Suzana Seban Jo Falcon and Bill Spears Peter Hertzmann and Jill M.Chinen Lee and Amy Christel Christopher Ferro and Dalynn May Hoenigman Family Foundation William Chuang and Pia DeLeon Frank Fischer Anna Hom Ko and Paul Ko Adam Clammer and Kate Clammer Jason M. Fish and Courtney Benoist Claire Hudson Donald R. Clark, Jr. Laura and John Fisher Pamela and Glenn Illian Diane and William Clarke Jay Folberg and Diana Taylor Robert and Riki Intner Susan Cluff and Neil Rudolph Gary Frankel and Lisa Redfern Barbara and Carl Jacobson Andy Coblentz and Shari Libicki Tom Frankel Jay and Robin Jeffries Danielle and Rufus Coleman Stefanie Fricano and Greg Darrah Bryan Johnson and Jocelyn Goldfein Katherine Copic and Daniel Spoonhower Marissa Gallagher Franklin and Catherine Johnson Dr. Ramon C. Cortines Helen T. Gan and Carrie Gan Ergin Ellen Jones and Cassius Jones Nolan, Evan, Kimberly, and Keith Cox Suzanne Garcia and Rob and Bernie Brackett Karla Jones Michael Dahlman Kimberly and Jonathan Garfinkel Don and Roz Kahn Peter B. Danzig and Lava Thomas Stanlee Gatti Jonathan and Tracy Kaplan Philip Davidson, In Memory of Susan M. Theodore H. Geballe Inga Karliner and Jon Thaler Davidson Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation The Keon-Vitale Family Frank and Cheryl Davis Adele Goldberg Mariza and Alex Kermani Elizabeth Dawson Jerome Goldstein and Thomas Taylor Susan Keyes and James Sulat Hal Dawson and Mary McVey Florence Gong Margorie King Cathy and Sandy Dean Lori Grace Michael J. Kirsch Foundation Sargun Dhillon Michael Sidney Grosse and Susan Joy Lauren Kowal and Andrew Kowal Josh Dillon Davenport Elizabeth Kwan Harold and Judith Dittmer Jerry Gummeson The Lamond Family Robert Dockendorff Denise Hale Leslie Lamport Matthew Dolan and Sandeep Bhadra Joseph Han and Amy Lum Barbara Lawrence Jesse Donaldson Ted J. Hannig Nancy Leavens Fund Manuel Alcantra Donesa Jr. and Louie Alcantra Kimberly and John Harding Jason and Angela Lee Donesa Michael and Marilyn Harryman John E. Lee Michael and Caroline Donohue Brian K. Harvey, Ph.D. Carole Leita Laryn Dorronsoro Hassan Family Marfa Levine Daniel L. Drake Brian and Kristin Heller Michelle M. Lewis Martha Ehrenfeld and Carla McKay Mark Henderson and Laura Tauber Kian-Tat Lim and Jennie Chang

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Jennifer L. Linder Mary M. Prchal Laszlo Tokes Mr. Gary Loeb Carl and Sandy Quong Erik and Ellen Topp Loud Hound Foundation Radu Raduta Kathe Traynor Roger M. Low Kanwal and Ann Rekhi Gene and Suzanne Valla Cynthia and Kent Lundberg Beverly Riehm and Randall Borcherding Luis Villa David and Cathryn Lyman Verrill and Wilbur Rinehart Jenny Vincelette Roya Malekian Anmarie B. Roache Luke Wachter Holly and Steve Massey Will and Sissy Robbins J. Patrick Waddell and Franklin Smyth Kazumi Matsuyama and Douglas Steedman Eileen H. Rodriguez Margaret Wadhwani Christine and Stan Mattison Barbara and Richard Rosenberg Harvey and Leslie Wagner Bobbie McChristy Nattinee Sae-Ho Lucas Wagner Karin and Greg McClune Peter Sargent Jearl Walker John and Charlotte McConkie Peter Schmidt and Dorothy McMath William Walker David McGavern Celestine and Scott Schnugg Brian and Molly Walsh Michael and Renee McKenna Olivia Sears and Craig Bicknell Keith and Sandra Wells Yasmine S. Mehmet Sanjay and Mahika Shamdasani Todd Werby and Nonie Greene Jessica and Jason Moment Emily and Brett Sheridan Patrick Whitgrove and Mona Baroudi Patrick and Trisha Moore Nika and Ali Shirani Brigitta Whiting Amy Morgan and Ryan Morgan Steven Smart and Javier Barreto Sandy and Jennifer Williams Doug and Yvonne Morgan Lee and Perry Smith King Won and Linda Won Dennis Mulqueeney and Patricia Rossi Dr. Thomas Smith and Dominique Monie Stella Wotherspoon and Christopher Hsu Rosemarie and Tae Hea Nahm Brian and Teresa Snook-O’Riva Sam Yee and Hilda Yee Cathie Nelson Audrey and Bob Sockolov Sophia Yen, M.D. David and Sherri Nichols Cherrill M. Spencer Cliff and Donna Yokomizo No Starch Press Victor and Gail Standiford Arthur and Charlotte Zitrin Foundation Bud and Kathi Oderio and Family David and Laurie Stevenson Stephen Zocchi and Roe Gallo Zocchi John Osterweis and Barbara Ravizza E.O. Stinson Joshua and Courtney Zucker Ted and Marilyn Panofsky Eleanor Sue and Wendy Mines Lisa and Travis Pearson Nate Sulat and Lajhem Cambridge The Carrie and Greg Penner Fund of the Tate Family Walton Family Foundation Sally Adamson Taylor The Philanthropy Fund Dr. Martin and Elizabeth Terplan Robert and Donys Powell Helen Thompson and Robert Thompson

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We are grateful to our spring gala sponsors Gala Donor Sue and Phil Marineau whose gifts were received by June 30, 2020. Anonymous (2) Alison and Michael Mauzé Ravin and Alka Agrawal McMurtry Family Gala Supporter Brandee Barker Stephanie and Bill Mellin Asset Management Company Bengier Foundation Laurie and Josh Olshansky Autodesk, Inc. John Seely Brown and Susan Haviland Orona Family Foundation BlackRock Financial Management Jennifer Caldwell and John H. N. Fisher Sandra L. Otellini BNY Mellon The Dan and Stacey Case Family Foundation David and Victoria Polatnick, CityPass George W. Cogan and Fannie Allen Newmark Pacific, Inc. Dodge & Cox Sarah Cogan and Douglas Evans Peter Reque Glynn Capital Management Roberta and Steven Denning Vincent L. and Jean Ricci HGA Architects & Engineers David deWilde and Katherine August-deWilde Craig Silverstein and Mary Obelnicki Index Ventures, Inc. Martha Ehmann Conte Ellie and Skip Smith JAZZ Venture Partners Greg and Julie Flynn Andrew and Elizabeth Spokes Kaiser Permanente Jennifer and Diego Fonstad John Steinbuch and Deborah Barrera Koret Foundation Mr. Lynn Fritz and Dr. Anisya T. Fritz David and Susan Tunnell MATT Construction Mariela and Richard Gerstein Jennifer Van Natta McGriff Insurance Services Jerome Gummeson and Elizabeth Welonek Aaron Vermut and Adriana López Vermut Nibbi Brothers General Contractors, Inc. Josie and Dan Haspel Lynn and Peter Wendell OneRhythm LLC Germaine and Jonathan Heiliger Phoebe White and Burke Norton Power Engineering Construction Co. Brian and Kristin Heller Jim and Lia Whitehead Rootstock ERP Nelson and Terrie Ishiyama Foundation Roger Wu and Ruth Hauser Wu RSM US LLP Roberta and Charles Katz David Yu and Gretchen Wustrack Sidley Austin LLP Rebecca Lee Sandra Yu Cheung

EXPLORATORIUM CAPITAL CAMPAIGN

Our thanks to the friends who helped support Anonymous (3) Caldwell Fisher Family Foundation the Exploratorium Capital Campaign with gifts Amgen, Inc. George W. Cogan and Fannie Allen made between 2012 and 2020. Gerson Bakar Foundation Troy and Leslie Daniels Dennis and Suzi Bartels Dhanam Foundation The Bengier Foundation Robin and Chris Donohoe William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation William H. Draper III and Phyllis C. Draper Fund EXPLORATORIUM IMPACT REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2020 THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS 24 EXPLORATORIUM CAPITAL CAMPAIGN

Tony and Sarah Earley Rupert and Maryellie Johnson Vincent L. and Jean Ricci Brewster and Nancy Ely The Charles and Roberta Katz Family Foundation Arthur Rock and Toni Rembe Rock Eucalyptus Foundation Knight Foundation Sakana Foundation Eustace-Kwan Family Foundation Koret Foundation The Scorpio Rising Fund The Julie and Greg Flynn Family Fund Chris Larsen Fund Craig Silverstein and Mary Obelnicki William Fries II Foundation Robert and Connie Lurie Skip and Ellie Smith Lynn and Anisya Fritz Sue and Phil Marineau Stupski Foundation Heising-Simons Foundation Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Jennifer Van Natta Frances Hellman and Warren Breslau Ken and Kris Moore The Anne Wojcicki Foundation Scott and Nancy Hindes Oak Meadow Foundation Dan Yue Michael Jacobson and Trine Sorensen The Bernard Osher Foundation Franklin and Catherine Johnson Barbara Perlman-Whyman

OPPENHEIMER CIRCLE

Members of the Oppenheimer Circle help Diana Buchbinder Ellis and Jennifer Gans ensure the future of the Exploratorium through Joseph Castrovinci Aradhana Ghosh their personal support and legacy gifts. Rilla McCubbins Chaney Florence Gong Diane and William L. Clarke Josh Gutwill and Laura Wise Anonymous (7) George W. Cogan Linda Halicki Anonymous - In Memory of Mary Brown Colonel William L. Cope Herbie Harman Philip and Mary Albert Robert D. Cormia Brian Harvey Donna M. Albertus Celeste Dela Calzada James A. Heagy Anthony J. Alfidi Alan D. Entine Marilyn Dobbs Higuera Dean Anderson Lawrence M. Fagan Scott Hindes Robert A. Asadorian David Fain Signa I. Houghteling Ms. Charna Ball Jo Falcon and William E. Spears Cory Iwatsu and Kirk Lively Dennis and Suzi Bartels M. Jean Fisher Anne Jennings & Andy Stacklin Estate of William K. Bowes, Jr. Susan Floore Maurice S. Kanbar Frish Brandt and August Fischer Greg and Julie Flynn Mr. and Mrs. F. Van Kasper Marcus Brooks and Donna L. Stuedeman William Fries Foundation Bruce Kau and Linda Hansen Marjorie Hom Brown Lynn Fritz Aman Ishaan Kumar

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Richard Laiderman and Jung-Wha Song Alice Musbach Jack Schiffhauer Mrs. L.W. Lane, Jr. Ruediger Naumann-Etienne Dale Scott Jude Laspa John R. Nelson Ellie and Skip Smith Rebecca Lee Tom M. Nguyen Kathryn Stegner Christine Lemor-Drake Charles and Diane Paskerian William and Barbara Straka Allan S. Leonard Gilberto Perez and Rosa Vilchis Estate of Joyce Talal Jo Markovich Regina Phelps Kathe Traynor Paul Masson Cameron A. Phleger Susan A. Van Wagner herbert a. masters III Robert and Marcia Popper Sandy Williams Amy McCombs Vincent L. and Jean Ricci Brian and Melissa Wong Chuck Mignacco David A. Robb Anders Yang Mr. J. Sanford Miller Jeanne Rose Mrs. Ellen Kipp James R. Murphy Peter Sargent

ENDOWMENT DONORS

Special thanks to donors that have Named Endowment Funds Rupert and Maryellie Johnson Fund made significant contributions in Anonymous donor, on behalf of the eBay for Education support of our endowment. User Community Koshland Foundation Fund Endowment for the Bowes Education Center Walter Landor Endowment for Creative The Bengier Foundation Jim Clark Endowment for Internet Education Exploration Columbia Foundation Leslie and Troy Daniels Fund for Excellence Louis R. Lurie Foundation Endowment Glasser Family Fund Troy and Leslie Daniels Fund for Life Sciences for Explainers William R. Hewlett Sakurako and William Fisher Endowed McBean Family Foundation Endowment Franklin and Catherine Johnson Executive Director Fund for Webcast Programming Jeanne T. Moore Fleishhacker Foundation Fund Noyce Fund for Teacher Education Dr. and Mrs. Bernard M. Oliver Hambrecht Teacher-in-Residence Fellowship The Bernard Osher Foundation Fellowships Max Palevsky and Jodie Evans William Randolph Hearst Foundation Silver Giving Explainer Fund Sakana Foundation Fund for Education Programs Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for Artists-in-Residence Barrett & Margaret Hindes Foundation Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for Capital Improvements Endowment for Exhibit Development Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for Exhibitions and Maintenance Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for Teacher Training

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The Exploratorium relies on the generosity of General Motors Tulloch Corporation corporate supporters to bring our education Glynn Capital Management United Airlines programs to young people and their teachers. Greentech Capital Partners WideOrbit Inc. We extend our gratitude to our Luminary Hammel, Green, and Abrahamson, Inc. Partners and corporate sponsors. Hanson Bridgett LLP Matching Gifts Heffernan Financial Services Thank you to the following institutions Luminary Partners Hint Inc. for matching their employees’ gifts. IDEO LP Index Ventures, Inc. Adobe Systems Incorporated Jamestown LP Airbnb JAZZ Venture Partners AllianceBernstein Kaiser Permanente Amgen, Inc. Ketchum Inc. Apple, Inc. Kevita Chevron Corporation Levi Strauss & Company Cisco Systems MATT Construction The Walt Disney Company Foundation Corporate Supporters McGriff Insurance Services Elasticsearch Asset Management Company Moody’s Foundation Expedia, Inc. Autodesk, Inc. MUFG Union Bank Exponent Partners BAESK8 Nibbi Brothers General Contractors, Inc. Genentech, Inc. Bank of America OneRhythm LLC Gilead Sciences, Inc. BlackRock Financial Management Oracle Corporation Google, Inc. BNY Mellon Pacific Gas and Electric Company The Home Depot California Bank & Trust Polatnick Properties Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Power Engineering Construction Co. IQVIA Chase Arts and Culture Program Prologis Jones Lang LaSalle Chevron Corporation Rootstock ERP Kaiser Permanente Citadel RSM US LLP Keysight Technologies CityPass Samsung Electronics North America LinkedIn Cruise Automation Sidley Austin LLP Microsoft Corporation Dodge & Cox Subaru of America Foundation, Inc. Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation First Republic Bank

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Netflix, Inc. Pacific Gas and Electric Company VMware NVIDIA Salesforce.org Wells Fargo & Company Oracle Corporation Varian Medical Systems

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.

S.D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation The Robert Brownlee Foundation Frank A. Campini Foundation John & Marcia Goldman Foundation Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund Walter and Elise Haas Fund Heising-Simons Foundation Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation The William G. Irwin Charity Foundation Moore Family Foundation Pisces Foundation Seed Fund

GIFTS IN KIND

We are grateful to the following individuals Autodesk, Inc. NEFT Vodka and organizations that made in-kind donations Fort Point Beer Co. Rodney Strong Vineyard from July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020. Hint Inc. Royal Dutch Distillers Humboldt Distillery United Airlines MasterClass Vintage Wine Estates EXPLORATORIUM IMPACT REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2020 THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS 28