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In article <hatunenCtwuur.Foq@netcom.com>,
DaveHatunen <hatunen@netcom.com> wrote:
>In article <1994Aug2.042128.13260@xyzoom.info.com>,
>Rob Lingelbach <rob@xyzoom.info.com> wrote:
>>I read somewhere that there exists in San Francisco a place called the
>>"Exploratorium" and that it has a series of dark "rooms" connected
>>with tunnels, or somesuch places, where you can navigate by touch
>>only.  I'd like to know: does it indeed exist, and is it as
>>interesting as it sounds?
>
>The Exploratorium in SF is the world's best science museum. It does
>have the place you describe within it, but that requires a reservation.
>I don't recall the requirements. I've been to the Exploratorium a dozen
>times, and it's fantastic without that, anyway.
>
>

Not to burst anyone's bubble, but I went to the Exploratorium a
couple of months ago and found it pretty bad.

Many of the exhibits were broken, the layout appears haphazard and
ill thought out, and the exhibits themselves are so static and 
separate from its surroundings that the educational value derived
from them is very difficult to digest.  

It was extremely disapointing, to say the least.

The Griffith Park Observatory has better exhibits and are much
more interesting.  It's also free, as opposed to the Exploritorium,
which cost (I think) $8 a person.  The museum of Science and Industry
in Exposition Park in LA blows it away, as far as I'm concerned.

If you want to go to a science museum in San Francisco, I suggest the
Academy of Science in Golden Gate Park.  It houses a planetarium,
and an aquarium amongst a bunch of pretty nicely laid out stuff.

The Exploratorium is good if you have some kids that you wish to let
run around to hysterically bang on their exhibits until they drop.

Otherwise, it's a waste of time.