exploratorium

A museum or similar institution that encourages visitors to explore the exhibits in a hands-on manner.

Noun

  1. A museum or similar institution that encourages visitors to explore the exhibits in a hands-on manner.
    • Especially appealing to older children and adolescents are science museums or exploratoriums. - 1999, Howard Gardner, Intelligence reframed: multiple intelligences for the 21st century:
    • Other ways to use the visual arts include architecture, visual thinking, graphic organizers, mindmaps, exploratoriums, and galleries. - 2001, Eric Jensen, Arts with the brain in mind:

Origin

From the Exploratorium in San Francisco, which holds a trademark on the term.

Forms

exploratoriums exploratoria