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Thanks for the alert, Claire! In honor of the Exploratorium's last day at
"home" I just lifted some favorite Frank quotes out of my copy
of "Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World
He Made Up" by K.C. Cole:
"The Exploratorium is not designed to glorify anything. We have not built
exhibits whose primary message is 'Hasn't someone done a great service to
the American way of life?'"
"No scientist works on Formica! You got to be able to bang with your
hammer, burn holes with your soldering gun; it's gotta look like a real
environment that a scientist would work in. That's the only way people can
know what it's like...I don't care how expensive it is, it's gotta look
cheap."
Regarding his students (who had not climbed trees or taken apart bicycles)--
"Their experience was so meager, their contact with the natural world so
restricted, that I thought a place was needed where they could walk through
a kind of woods of natural phenomena."
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Rebecca Prosino <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
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> What about a giant party instead? I hope y'all have that in the plans.
> A trip to the Exploratorium at age 12 is what made me major in mechanical
> engineering and, later, get into this field. Thank you for showing me that
> engineers can have a great time too.
> So happy for the Exploratorium!
>
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> > Nice! Love to you all on this new chapter, and thanks for the memories.
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> > Eric
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> > On Jan 2, 2013, at 4:39 PM, Claire Pillsbury <
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> > > Dear colleagues,
> > > As many of you already know, the Exploratorium is moving from the
> beloved
> > > Palace of Fine Arts building in San Francisco to Pier 15 & 17 on the SF
> > > waterfront. Today is our last day open at this location for the
> public,
> > > after more than forty years it will be a big change but one we are
> > looking
> > > forward to - our new building, a converted industrial warehouse is
> > > beautiful! (Open April 17)
> > >
> > > The media has done a number of wonderful stories looking at our past
> and
> > > future -- the link below is a particularly nice tv news story that
> > includes
> > > some great archival footage.
> > >
> > > A look back at how SF's *Exploratorium* came to
> > > be<
> >
> http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story%3Fsection%3Dnews/assignment_7%26id%3D8938883&ct=ga&cad=CAEQAhgAIAAoATAAOABAk5uPhwVIAVgBYgVlbi1VUw&cd=MOHzChK9KMI&usg=AFQjCNEEEgnaXKPASWp9-s7CBidralbJww
> > >
> > > abc7news.com
> > > SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- If you want to get a last look at San
> Francisco's
> > *
> > > Exploratorium* while it's still at the Palace of Fine Arts, you only
> have
> > > one day
> > >
> > > --
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> > > Exploratorium
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