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 5" pendulum set up made from plastic and metal.
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Foucault's Pendulum 15"
$ 30.00
The tripod pendulum arc is cardboard; a plastic syringe hangs down from the middle attached with string. A blue spiral pattern shows below.
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Make Your Own Painting Pendulum
$ 10.95
A white Albert Einstein bust-shaped planter with green foliage extruding from the top.
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Albert Einstein Planter
$ 13.95
"Anatomy" is a hardback book with a black cover; an artistic collage rendering of the skeletal system with different patterned papers.
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Anatomy: Explore the Human Body by the Editors of Phaidon
$ 59.95
Fifty-three components from the kit including gears, mirrors, color filters, polaroid filters, and tools.
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Optical Science Lab
$ 39.99
Blue box with close-up images of the components to create the chain reactions. Including rolly top, ball, pillars, and planks.
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Zig & Go Roll Action-Reaction 28 Piece Set
$ 34.99
Blue box with close-up images of the components to create the chain reactions. Including a wooden car,  a circular loop, blocks, ramps, sticks, and steels balls.
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Zig & Go Wroom Action-Reaction 45 Piece Set
$ 55.99
Hexagonal form with blue light LEDs moving back into infinity.
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Infinity Mirror Optical Illusion of Light Depth
$ 19.99
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A glass light bulb is standing upright illuminated with an LED coil.
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Cordless Lightbulb
$ 30.00
Rainbow-colored magnetic balls in a circular tube and cube shape.
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Speks Rainbow Spectrum
$ 35.99
The earrings are white and gold with little black dots like vanilla bean seeds of circles, semi-circles, half ellipses, and dangling linear shapes.
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Vanilla Bean Pau Earring
$ 40.00
A set of two red & gold earrings made of geometric circles and crescents.
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Crimson Scarlet Earring
$ 36.00
The earrings are green circles with a rectangle below with profile faces made out of wire in a cut-out in the middle.
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Jade Gigi Earring
$ 35.00
A gif image of a solar-powered Swarovski crystal spinning at the bottom of a see-through colorful gear motor.
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Solar Powered Rainbow Maker with Swarovski Crystal
$ 31.99
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One lighted purple candle in the shape of a half geode sits on a windowsill. There are two small plants next to it. One can see green through the window.
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Amethyst Geode Bergamot & Violet Scented Candle
$ 32.00
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,
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Klutz Sew Mini Animals: More Than 12 Animal Plushies to Stitch and Stuff
$ 21.99
A blue-green box showing samples of the pets you can make with the kit. Featured are the sloth, owl, and French bulldog.
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Robot Pet Shop
$ 30.00
Blue and yellow cover with cross axels, technic bricks, plates, pegs, gear, and wheels showcasing objects one can build with this kit.
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Klutz LEGO Gadgets
$ 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.
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Moon Mug
$ 16.95
NASA image of the Earth in a circular package design facing to the right.
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Earth 100 Piece Round Puzzle Puzzle
$ 19.99
Glow-in-the-dark stars and moon against a dark ceiling.
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Starry Night Glow-in-the-Dark Sticker Set.
$ 17.00
Kaleidoscope wrapped in dark blue space-themed paper. Three space-themed disks show the kaleidoscope design.
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Space Immersion DIY Kaleidoscope Kit
$ 16.00
Swing set set up for play with a slide and swing between two trees. The two smaller bunnies play on the swing and slide while the larger bunny watches.
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Coding Critters: Bopper, Hip & Hop
$ 49.99
Set of 5 textured rings with built-in magnets for easy stacking.
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Tinker Rings
$ 25.99