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Galleries

The Tech Awards Gallery See how The Tech Awards Laureates use innovative technology to address humanity's most pressing problems in this interactive gallery. more +	The Tech Challenge Gallery This Gallery will highlight The Tech Challenge and basic principles of fundamental science and the building blocks for technology. There are 20 on-going hands-on science experiments which teach the essential principles. more +	The Tech Energy Gallery Learn about renewable energy sources, and how to harness and use energy more efficiently by visiting The Tech Energy Gallery. Hands-on experiences will show you how powerful wind, water and the sun can be! Go green! more +	The Tech Exploration Gallery Experience various forms of exploration on our planet and beyond as you shake in an earthquake, explore the ocean, and learn about space technologies. more +
The Tech Health and Biotech Gallery Explore technologies that enhance human performance, experience medical technology, or play the role of genetic counselor, policymaker, or scientist! more +	The Tech Innovation at Play Gallery This gallery connects the dots between fun and innovation. Visitors learn how to collaborate, test ideas, and see things from a different perspective. This gallery also teaches the power of trying, failing, learning, and trying again--working and playing toward the next great invention. more +	The Tech Silicon Valley Innovation Gallery Find out how Silicon Valley's technologies are revolutionizing human thought, creativity, and communication. more +	The Tech Test Zone A futuristic new gallery concept, where visitors can experience emerging technologies first-hand and be inspired to imagine things to come. more +
The Tech Virtual Gallery This gallery showcases the world's first hands-on, interactive exhibits conceptualized and developed originally in the virtual world of Second Life by people from all over the world. Exhibits feature the theme of Art, Film & Music. more +

Featured Exhibits

Social Circles Social Circles is a dynamic floor created by Snibbe Interactive that promotes social encounters through playful interaction. The concept highlights the social side of technology and allows you to walk around the floor, interact with others and see what happens with each encounter. It uses computer vision software, infrared lights, a camera, a computer and video projector in order to respond to your movements on the floor. Video images are projected on top of you as you move around the space. The interactive experience at The Tech Museum takes digital technology to another level!	Grow Jellyfish DNA in our Wet Lab Become a real-life genetic engineer. Guests are stepped through the procedure to grow jellyfish bacteria using a multimedia lab companion. The activity takes approximately 15 minutes to complete. After an overnight incubation, guests can view a picture of their bacteria posted on their GeneKids webpage when they scan their Tech Tag. The picture-taking process is computer assisted and photographs 25 bacterial plates at once.	Infinite Creativity "Infinite Creativity" showcases digital tools that allow all people to create and collaborate artistically. On the exhibit's four touch-screen canvases, visitors finger paint colorful lines, swirls, and shapes. A large screen then broadcasts each visitor's artwork on a constantly evolving collage. To produce this exclusive experience, The Tech Museum worked with the Adobe Foundation and Second Story, a Portland, Ore.-based design studio that creates interactive experiences with an inventive mix of technology and storytelling.	You are Everywhere Don’t miss the first permanent public installation of Google’s Liquid Galaxy. "You are everywhere" shows how Google's innovations let everyone be an explorer and navigator. In this semicircular room of screens, visitors fly across the surface of the Earth, moon, and Mars with a mere touch of a button and tilt of a joystick. A custom version of Google Earth makes these voyages possible.
Reface Visitors interact with a capture station – a screen, camera and computer using face-tracking software – to make a variety of expressions. Reface locates the visitors’ eyes, nose and mouth, and using a combination of random and deliberate choices, pulls together the video of visitor faces.