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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Gifts for Science Lovers

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Colorful book cover with various science-themed illustrations on a lime green background.

Science Scribble Book

$ 12.99
$ 12.99
Enamel pin of a cartoon-style beaker with pink liquid and flame on a white background

Bunsen Burner Pin

$ 12.99
$ 12.99
Box of Usborne Book and Jigsaw Puzzle Periodic Table with colorful design

Periodic Table Book and Jigsaw Puzzle

$ 16.99
$ 16.99
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A crazy green and yellow machine with levers, smoke, wind turbines, umbrellas, tubes, etc., with a little figure in the front running the engine; My Crazy Inventions Sketchbook is written in the marquee.

My Amazing Inventions Sketchbook: 50 Awesome Drawing Activities for Young Inventors

$ 15.99
$ 15.99
A colorful box with a coral reef depicted on the front. There is a sea turtle, clownfish, octopus and shark included in the image.

Ecosystem: Coral Reef

$ 20.00
$ 20.00
Book cover of 'Super Fun Slime Projects' with colorful slime images on a purple background

Super Fun Slime Projects: DIY Tutorials, Recipes, and Projects―Totally Borax Free!

$ 16.99
$ 16.99
Toy robot with coding cards and packaging on a white background

Andy: The Code & Play Robot

$ 50.00
$ 50.00
Book cover of 'Glow: The Wild Wonders of Bioluminescence' with colorful illustrations of bioluminescent creatures.

Glow: The Wild Wonders of Bioluminescence

$ 24.95
$ 24.95
A blue box with a shiny silver border. An image of Saturn and various space related cards are on the front.

Shiny Space Memory & Matching Game

$ 24.99
$ 24.99
Plush frog toy in a cardboard box on a white background

Froggie Dissection Lab

$ 25.99
$ 25.99
Front packaging for House of Marbles Sunshine Print Paper kit, featuring natural botanical artwork, FSC certification in the corner, and chocking warning.

Sunshine Paper

$ 11.95
$ 11.95