Located in San Francisco, The Exploratorium is a sort of hands-on museum which aims to explain and question some of the most typical assumptions on the world and how we perceive it, thus the tagline: “the museum of science, art, and human perception”; the site is really something to watch out for, as it presents a variety of interactive and media-rich features which don’t really reproduce –nor pretend to— the exhibits, but rather work as an entrée or dessert to them, as a starter of reflection or something to think a bit more after you’ve visited the shows. The site is, in a way, like wikis are for meetings: an increasing number of companies and research teams use wikis for each of their meetings as a platform to ensure everyone read the same materials before showing up, having all the same charts and white papers at hand during the course of the meeting, and adding to that materials reflections and conclusions when the event has finished.
That’s the concept behind it, and nothing you should care very much about while you immerse in the webcasts to see a live (and explained) scan of the brain, a photographer explain the medical and social traditions behind some strange instruments, the library of simple science experiments, and many other hi-tech and ubersimple features which will definitely make any science lover’s day, and which will hopefully become an example for other museums of the kind of service they should be offering in the times of Google and Wikipedia. 
