Don't pick up this cookbook expecting to find recipes involving butter, flour, and sugar. The Exploratorium Cookbook instead delivers everything you need to build your versions of the interactive exhibits found on our museum floor.

Volume I  contains 82 exhibits "recipes" related to light and images, vision, sound and hearing, electricity, and magnetism, color, mechanics, and patterns; each includes a description and detailed construction guidelines.  An exhibit design checklist outlines essential considerations (such as ventilation and longevity) to remember during construction.

Exhibit builders around the world have used this series to replicate our exhibits as well as to modify them and create their own—so put on your thinking cap and get cooking.