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Jobs at The Exploratorium

Creates hands-on, inquiry-based science and art exhibits and provides professional development to help educators worldwide transform how students learn.

  • Museum and visitor experience:we're an r&d laboratory that experiments with cutting-edge ideas. We create, experiment, test, and build nearly everything at the Exploratorium ourselves, always looking for the most interesting and important ideas to pursue, often pushing the limits of…$34.1M spent in FY2024
  • Educator engagement:we're at the forefront of science education. By making science visible, touchable, and accessible to a wide variety of people at the museum, online, and in the classroom, our explore-for-yourself way of learning and teaching influences science education worldwide.…$10.3M spent in FY2024
  • Global collaborations:we learn and share with partners worldwide. By drawing on the exploratorium's broad expertise, global collaborations is able to provide a comprehensive set of creative services from master planning to program development to exhibit fabrication and installation. We like…$7.5M spent in FY2024

From The Exploratorium's mission and programs on its FY2024 Form 990. See the full report

No open jobs right now. Here is what The Exploratorium pays its leaders on its Form 990.

Budget
$64M
FY2024 revenue
Staff
724
Form 990 Part I
Top pay
$744K
Exec Director

No open jobs at The Exploratorium right now.

Money, year by year

Revenue
$64M
FY2024
20192024
Expenses
$67.8M
FY2024
20192024
Net assets
$244.7M
FY2024
20192024

From The Exploratorium's IRS Form 990 filings. See the full report

Leadership and pay

Name and titlePayYear
Mark Bierman
Exec Director · Executive Director
$744,0102024
Robert Semper
Chief Learning Officer
$355,6052024
Laura Zander
Chief Financial Officer (thru 6/30/2025) · Chief Financial Officer
$328,4172024
Anne Richardson
Chief Experience Officer
$296,3842024
Blair Winn
Chief Advancement Officer
$282,6632024
Julie Nunn
Chief Brand Officer
$246,5452024

Executive directors at $10M+ orgs in San Francisco, CA make $234,659 median (from 88 Form 990s).

Chief financial officers at $10M+ orgs in San Francisco, CA make $241,005 median (from 140 Form 990s).

Chief advancement officers at $10M+ orgs in California make $220,261 median (from 48 Form 990s).

Reported pay from Part VII of the org's IRS Form 990. All 49 people · See the full report

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