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This is an online exhibit about color perception. Learners set a random background color and then try to mix red, blue, and green light to match.

With little more than a flashlight, a straw, and a plastic lid, make an observatory so you can see the amazing colors in bubbles.

In this optics activity, learners discover that not all shadows are black. Learners explore human color perception by using colored lights to make additive color mixtures.

Like water drops in falling rain, a CD separates white light into all the colors that make it up.

Look at pictures through different color filters and you'll see them in a new way. People have used color filters in beautiful photography or sending secret messages.

Do you have a hard time matching paint swatches with your furniture? When you consider human perception, color is context dependent.

Make a big canvas of iridescent color with pvc pipe! In this Exploratorium Science Snack, you'll need to cut and assemble some PVC pipe, but the pay-off, the soap-bubble canvas, is big.