Marina Mcdougall

Marina McDougall is a curator with an interest in the intersections of art and science, nature, and culture. McDougall has organized exhibitions and public programs for the Exploratorium, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, MIT Media Lab, the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, the California Academy of Sciences, and the Oakland Museum of California.

McDougall is currently arts project director at the Exploratorium, where this past year she organized a conference called "Art as a Way of Knowing". McDougall is a cofounder of the Studio for Urban Projects. Her long-term project The Garden of Forking Paths involves drawing upon the history gardens to shape new forms of garden experience.

She is the coeditor of the Marvelous Museum: Treasures, Curiosities and Orphans of the Oakland Museum of California: A Project of Mark Dion (Chronicle Books, 2010) and Science Is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painleve (MIT Press/Brico Press, 2000).