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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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A gif image of a solar-powered Swarovski crystal spinning at the bottom of a see-through colorful gear motor.

Solar Powered Rainbow Maker with Swarovski Crystal

$ 31.99
$ 31.99
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
Rainbow-colored magnetic balls in a circular tube and cube shape.

Speks Rainbow Spectrum

$ 35.99
$ 35.99
Hexagonal form with blue light LEDs moving back into infinity.

Infinity Mirror Optical Illusion of Light Depth

$ 27.99
$ 27.99
Front packaging of the box with three cats pictured below the title. The box is 3" x 6".

Cat Stax Puzzle

$ 17.00
$ 17.00
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 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
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
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
A black box with chemistry equipment in a green tray,

Ultimate Chemistry Set

$ 50.00
$ 50.00
It is a blue and beige box with an illustration of elements from the periodic table, a chemistry flask, a testable, and a Bunson burner. The box is 5" x 3.75".

Chemistry Fluxx

$ 20.00
$ 20.00
Glow-in-the-dark stars and moon against a dark ceiling.

Starry Night Glow-in-the-Dark Sticker Set.

$ 18.00
$ 18.00
A 5" pendulum set up made from plastic and metal.

Foucault's Pendulum 15"

$ 41.95
$ 41.95
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
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
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
Yellow and white shuttle rocket launcher.

Build Your Own NASA Spaceship

$ 35.00
$ 35.00
"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
A glass light bulb is standing upright illuminated with an LED coil.

Cordless Lightbulb

$ 40.00
$ 40.00
Blue and green box with beakers and test tubes filled with blobby biopolymers monsters complete with eyes and tentacles. Four bottles of neon bio ooze sit in the right bottom corner,

Klutz Maker Lab: Bio Chem Creatures

$ 19.99
$ 19.99
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