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 black and blue planet hangs from a wooden crane; under the planet are three magnets that move around to spin the planet. Several tools, magnets, and discs are scattered underneath.
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Magnet Science Lab
$ 29.99
Two hungry brown bears are sitting at a table with a pink gingham table cloth. There are several pies and pie pieces with fractions and numbers on them. A six-pointed star spinner to play the game sits in the middle.
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Make a Pie Fraction Game
$ 23.00
The book cover is purple, orange, and white; two drawings of young athletes, one is a gymnast, and one is a football player.
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The Secret Science of Sports: The Math, Physics, and Mechanical Engineering Behind Every Gland Slam, Triple Axel, and Penalty Kick by Jennifer Swanson
$ 16.99
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.
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Book of Flight: 10 Record-Breaking Animals with Wings By Gabrielle Balkan
$ 19.95
The product is blue and grey with cyan plant impressions in the middle, showing the effects created with the kit.
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Sunprint Kit
$ 18.95
The product packaging is purple with glow-in-the-dark green scratched out in an image of an owl holding a key as it flies in the night sky,
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Scratch Cards
$ 6.99
A magenta cover with orange and white writing and orange quantum physics graphic symbols complete the surface in rows five by five.
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Simply Quantum Physics
$ 16.99
This is a product image of a rotunda-shaped box with different colorful illustrations representing what is found at a science museum. Some of the items found are a microscope, an atom molecule, a telescope, and DNA strands.
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Day at the Science Museum 48 Piece Puzzle
$ 25.00
Brown and beige circular box with 36 different insect species represented.
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36 Insects 100 Piece Puzzle
$ 20.00
Blue circular box with 36 different shark species represented.
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36 Sharks 100 Piece Puzzle
$ 20.00
This is a white box with a colorful drawing of a young child using the spin art machine; One hand is on the spin pump while the other hand squeezes the paint into the spinning art machine.
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Spindippty Spin Art Machine
$ 17.95
Two children are smiling with cards in their hands; the gameboard sits in front of them, set up for play.
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Space Escape Cooperative Strategy Game
$ 22.95
The product box looks like our galaxy with all the planets suspended in space, each represented by the color of the eight planets and one glittery moon.
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Galactic Slime Experience
$ 21.95
The box for this product is colorful, with a see-through window on the right side showcasing the six glitter and sparkle special effects added to the putty.
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Mixed Be Me Holographic Putty Activity Kit
$ 20.00
20" x 27 1/2 " organic white cotton with different types of mushrooms scatted throughout in vibrant reds, greens, and browns, as well as line drawings.
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Mushrooms Printed Tea Towel
$ 25.00
20" x 27 1/2 " organic white cotton with different butterflies, caterpillars, and flowers scatted throughout in vibrant blues, greens, and oranges.
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Butterfly Printed Tea Towel
$ 25.00
White organic cotton tea towel with different chemistry formulas, equipment tools, and Petri dishes scatted throughout in blue and gray ink. The dimensions are 20" x 27 1/2 ".
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Chemistry Printed Tea Towel
$ 25.00
Otamatone Deluxe Musical Instrument from Maywa Denki
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Otamatone Deluxe Musical Instrument from Maywa Denki
$ 69.00
Star Trek Catan Board Game
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Star Trek Catan Board Game
$ 65.00
Star Trek Federation Space: A Two Map Expansion for Star Trek Catan
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Star Trek Federation Space: A Two Map Expansion for Star Trek Catan
$ 30.00
A box in yellow, orange, and magenta radiate from the middle outward. There is an illustration of a female and males dressed as spies with no facial features. Top secret and code names appear in word bubbles above their heads.
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Codenames
$ 19.95
This is a product image for the Klutz Rainbow Catcher kit. It is 8" x 11.75". The front of the kit is an image of the rainbow maker On the side are the individual pieces to build the kit. On the opposite side, there are two examples of the DIY experiments that one can do with the kit. Candy rainbow and rainbow slime time.
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DIY Rainbow Catcher
$ 24.99
This is a product image of the Klutz Gear Bots. The box is 10" x 10" On the cover of the box are four samples that you can make with the kit. On the side of the kit are the little gears and pieces that you make the kit with.
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Klutz: Gear Bots: Create 8 Machines
$ 24.99
Robot Turtles: A Coding Board Game
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Robot Turtles: A Coding Board Game
$ 25.99