Exploratorium After Dark: Sol System: An Alternative Energy Exploration

Old Sol isn't the only alternative energy source (good news for foggy San Francisco). On Thursday, October 7, Sol System: An Alternative Energy Exploration will feature organizations, objects, and activities involved with alternative energy sources. Among the featured exhibits will be a 22-foot-tall flower cum solar panel that opens and tilts towards the sun, features seating and charging stations for laptops and computers, and orients itself to provide visitors with shade.

Experience life After Dark, an evening series exclusively for adults that mixes cocktails, conversation, and playful, innovative science and art events. Not a theater, cabaret, or gallery, After Dark contains aspects of all three. Each evening showcases a different topic-from music to sex to electricity-but all include a cash bar and film screenings, plus an opportunity to play with our hundreds of hands-on exhibits. Join us and mingle with inventive scientists, artists, musicians, programmers, and designers. Enjoy live performances, provocative films, interesting music, cutting-edge technology, unexpected extravaganzas, and more, depending on each evening's lineup. Leave the kids at home and meet friends or take a date. Where else can you find an intellectually stimulating playground for adults-with free parking?

This event is included in the price of museum admission.

Please note a change to our After Dark admission policy: In response to feedback from many attendees, beginning Thursday, October 7, only visitors 18 and older will be admitted to After Dark. Thank you for understanding-and for helping make After Dark a success.