{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Call 'Em Like Museum with Eric Johnson","title":"You’re never done learning at the Exploratorium (with Anne Richardson)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2747,"description":"At the right time of day, the Exploratorium on San Francisco’s Embarcadero is covered in rainbows. Visitors lift soap bubbles over their heads, drop ball bearings through hoops, and spin a disc of sand that seems to fall forever. For almost 60 years, this hands-on museum has invited people to poke at the world and see what happens.\n“We’re giving you the real thing. We are not giving you a simulation of something that happens,” says Dr. Anne Richardson, the Exploratorium’s chief experience officer.\nWhen Anne first walked in, she thought, “Oh wow, this is my place.” Twenty-three years later, she’s still there. Her work now runs from After Dark, a weekly adults-only night, to exhibitions such as “Adventures in AI,” in which visitors decided whether to trust a little robotic arm that looks like a cat paw.\nToday, on the season finale of Call ’Em Like Museum, Anne explains how a visitor’s flip-flop changed a classic exhibit; what adults get out of After Dark, where you can sip a cocktail while watching a rat being skinned; the Exploratorium’s work with new science centers in Brazil, Korea, and Kenya; and why “wicked problem skills” matter for big challenges like climate change. Plus: Why her all-time favorite exhibit is one she broke... permanently.\nFull transcript of this episode\nSubscribe to the newsletter\nThis episode was hosted, produced, and edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod\n\nChapters\nMusic: www.purple-planet.com\n\nImages:\nUniversity of Michigan mastodons\nArt Institute of Chicago\nAnn Arbor Hands-On Museum\nSESI Lab\nHyundai Partnership\nNemayiana\nVideos:\nInfinity Dream","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/R3vVVmzGNQz0jMgSg7uznIO-cko06gdiz9lG9pi3elA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85MTA0/ZmM2NTdlOTJjZGZk/NDA0MGI2M2IxNmU1/NWE0MC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}