
Exploratorium
Complete website redesign for San Francisco's Exploratorium, timed to the museum's historic move from the Palace of Fine Arts to Pier 15.
The Exploratorium's relocation to Pier 15 in 2013 was the biggest transformation in the museum's history — a new building, new galleries, a fundamentally different relationship to the waterfront and the city. The website needed to carry that same energy: not a refresh but a reimagining of how a science museum presents itself online.
We redesigned the full site from the ground up, building an information architecture that mirrored the museum's six gallery zones — the Tinkering Studio, Light and Sound, Human Behaviour, Living Systems, the Outdoor exhibits, and the Bay Observatory. Each section had its own visual rhythm while holding together as a coherent system. The Visit page became a portal to the new Pier 15 location, walking users through what they'd find in each gallery with photography and context that matched the museum's signature mix of wonder and rigour.
The Artists-in-Residence section received particular attention. The Exploratorium has long been a place where artists and scientists overlap, and the redesign gave that program a proper editorial home — profiles, project documentation, and a sense of the creative process behind each residency.
The store, events calendar, education resources, and membership flows were all rebuilt to feel native to the new identity. The result was a site that felt like walking into the museum itself: curious, layered, inviting you to go deeper.




