San Francisco\u2019s Exploratorium is charting an overseas expansion, announcing on Thursday that it would open a museum in Seoul.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The museum is slated to open in 2032 as part of a partnership with the South Korea-based Hyundai Motor Group, which will house the museum at its planned new complex. Like the\u00a0Embarcadero institution, the new location is also set to serve as an experimental science museum, filled with hands-on exhibits and live programming.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe\u00a0Exploratorium and Hyundai Motor Group share a commitment to cultivating the human capacities that no machine or technology can replicate: curiosity, discernment and agency,” Exploratorium Executive Director Lindsay Bierman said in a statement. “What we’re co-creating in Korea will drive progress for humanity by advancing science learning, literacy and innovation across Asia and the world.”<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not the\u00a0Exploratorium\u2019s first global collaboration: in the past four years, it has helped open labs and museums in Brazil, Kuwait and Omaha, Neb. But the Hyundai project represents the Exploratorium\u2019s largest collaboration to date, the museum announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The new museum will be a feature of Hyundai\u2019s planned Global Business Complex, a trio of 54-story towers in downtown Seoul planned to also include business offices, commercial areas and an urban park.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe experiential science museum we are creating with the\u00a0Exploratorium will be a unique hub for science education, delivering experiences that nurture individual curiosity and a spirit of inquiry for a better future,\u201d Euisun Chung, executive chair of Hyundai Motor Group, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Anne Richardson, the\u00a0Exploratorium\u2019s chief experience officer, said the museum\u2019s overseas collaborations aim to \u201cenable the Exploratorium to share and adapt its inquiry-driven approach to science learning\u201d worldwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco\u2019s Exploratorium is charting an overseas expansion, announcing on Thursday that it would open a museum in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[329,65739,101,103,102,104,106,105,2013],"class_list":{"0":"post-271968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-arts-and-entertainment","9":"tag-arts-and-exhibits","10":"tag-san-francisco","11":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","12":"tag-san-francisco-news","13":"tag-sf","14":"tag-sf-headlines","15":"tag-sf-news","16":"tag-us-and-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}