Holiday Gift Guide 2026

Roam through our collection of art and science themed gifts to uncover treasures, like the Mini Solar Mars Rover or Rocket Bath Toy, to delight all your favorite people. Every purchase helps to support the Exploratorium’s 501(c)(3) nonprofit mission of transforming science learning worldwide.

Enjoy the best-kept shopping secret in San Francisco—the Exploratorium Store—either online or at Pier 15, where you’ll find welcoming staff and convenient gift wrapping

Budget Collection items including playing cards, magnatiles, Otamatone, and wind-up.
Holiday Budget Friendly Gifts
Red drop earrings, red and black anatomy pouch, silver metallic puzzle, black flask with Exploratorium in silver, green and yellow stag beetle with black legs
Holiday Gifts for Curious Adults
Cat game on top right in orange, green, and purple, Blue robot, brown flashlight bear, multicolored building blocks and a pixel piano in rainbow colors
Holiday Gifts for Kids
Holiday Science Lovers Collection including a microscope, a suspension bridge, and Simply Quantum Physics book.
Holiday Gifts for Science Lovers
A collage of different items from the top; Cats Knocking Things off Ledges, blue flask, purple crochet jellyfish, green & gold beetle, building blocks in green, yellow, blue and pink and The Science of Baking against a red background.
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A pink and blue box with a clear window showing 12 different colored pens.

Oh My! Glitter Gel Pens

$ 25.99
$ 25.99
Gold an green stage beetle made out of shiny paper on the body and black paper for the legs.

Stag Beetle 3D Paper Green Mango Model Kit

$ 18.99
$ 18.99