Holiday Gift Guide 2021

When is a gift more than just a gift? These hand-curated selections from our store fuel curiosity and open paths to exploration all year long—surprise, challenge, and delight even your hardest–to–shop-for friends and family with our unique selection. Even better, every purchase helps to support the Exploratorium's mission of transforming learning worldwide.

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Dark gray socks with Pi symbol and 85 digits of Pi in white and green.

85 Digits of Pi Sock

$ 13.95
$ 13.95
Glow in the dark small solar system. Each planet has a string attached to allow it to hang from any surface.

3D Planets in a Tube

$ 10.99
$ 10.99
Blue and yellow cover with cross axels, technic bricks, plates, pegs, gear, and wheels showcasing objects one can build with this kit.

Klutz LEGO Gadgets

$ 24.99
$ 24.99
Giff image. When the mug is cold, the Moon is set against a sea of black. Add a steaming beverage, and then the mug transforms, revealing the names of the Appolo missions, astronauts, landing sites, and milestones.

Moon Mug

$ 16.95
$ 16.95
This 18oz drinking glass stands 6" tall, featuring a gray periodic table design wrapping around its surface.

Periodic Table Drinking Glass

$ 20.00
$ 20.00
This full deck of cards ( with numbers and suits for actual gameplay) features 26 profiles of women and gender minorities in physics careers—including the Exploratorium's own senior physicist, Desiré Whitmore.

Across the Spectrum: Women & Gender Minorities in Physics Careers Playing Cards

$ 12.00
$ 12.00
A 5" pendulum set up made from plastic and metal.

Foucault's Pendulum 15"

$ 41.95
$ 41.95
There are two playing cards, one set up with the puzzle dog pieces. Eight dog puzzle pieces sit on the top and bottom of the cards; the dog pile box is to the right.

Dog Stax Puzzle

$ 17.00
$ 17.00
Red and white box with a window to see lenticular black and white cat image on playing cards. Four playing cards with different lenticular cat images lying in front of the playing cards box.

3D Cat Playing Cards

$ 9.95
$ 9.95
A glass light bulb is standing upright illuminated with an LED coil.

Cordless Lightbulb

$ 40.00
$ 40.00
A pink and blue box with samples of mini animals that you can make. Included are a panda, a fox, a bunny, an octopus, a penguin, a sloth, and a bird,

Klutz Sew Mini Animals: More Than 12 Animal Plushies to Stitch and Stuff

$ 22.99
$ 22.99
"Simply Quantum Physics" is a hardback book with a magenta cover with orange and white writing and orange quantum physics graphic symbols complete the surface in rows five by five.

Simply Quantum Physics

$ 16.99
$ 16.99
An extraordinarily detailed and precise Hurdy Gurdy complete with strings and cranking mechanism made entirely out of wood.

UGears Hurdy-Gurdy

$ 84.99
$ 84.99
The book cover is blue with ten white line drawings of different animals that can take flight, such as a bat, a butterfly, a hawk, a sparrow, and a flying squirrel.

Book of Flight: 10 Record-Breaking Animals with Wings By Gabrielle Balkan

$ 19.95
$ 19.95
"Anatomy" is a hardback book with a black cover; an artistic collage rendering of the skeletal system with different patterned papers.

Anatomy: Explore the Human Body by the Editors of Phaidon

$ 59.95
$ 59.95
There are twelve boxes in four rows with images in bright colors depicting sight, eyes, and optical illusions on the cover of Sight: Glimmer, Glow, SPARK, FLASH! By Romana Romanyshyn & Audriy Lesiv.

Sight: Glimmer, Glow, SPARK, FLASH! By Romana Romanyshyn & Audriy Lesiv

$ 19.99
$ 19.99
Turquoise playing card box with a window to show a lenticular image of a dog. Stack of lenticular cat and dog cards sitting next to it.

3D Dog Playing Cards

$ 9.95
$ 9.95
Turquoise container filled with different shaped bubble dough.

Deluxe Bubble Dough Lab

$ 30.00
$ 30.00
Blue and yellow cover showing four scientists and their discoveries.

The Amazing Discoveries of 100 Brilliant Scientists by Abigail Wheatley

$ 12.99
$ 12.99
A natural colored box with a black ribbon sits open with black Einstein portrait socks, a grey brain-inspired journal, an amber glass candle, and a natural colored canvas pouch screen printed in black with Science is Magic and science tool icons.

Exploratorium Gift Box - Pamper Yourself

$ 50.00
$ 50.00
A set of two red & gold earrings made of geometric circles and crescents.

Crimson Scarlet Earring

$ 40.00
$ 40.00
The gameboard is set up for play with fifteen different textured colored discs. There is one white ball and a black game board; extra discs sit to the side

Morphy Change is the Name of the Game

$ 24.99
$ 24.99