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 product shot of the box is blue with a blue square robot with big eyes and grey wheels on the front.
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Botley The Coding Robot 2.0
$ 64.99
A long slender black musical instrument that is in the shape of an eighth note with white eyes on the base.
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Otamatone Deluxe Musical Instrument from Maywa Denki
$ 69.00
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 backyard scene of different animals that live above and below ground. There are birds, raccoons, rabbits, squirrels, plants, flowers, and trees above ground. Rabbits, a red fox, and ground squirrel living in burrows.
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Above and Below - Backyard Discovery 48 Piece Puzzle
$ 22.00
The puzzle has a beige background with muted colors of green, blue, gray, and brown dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes.
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World of Dinosaurs 750 Piece Puzzle
$ 22.00
A hardcover book with a black cover, a grid design features little illustrations of elements such as a mushroom, pyramid, octopus, and an airplane. A periodic table sits in the middle of the page.
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Exploring the Elements: A Complete Guide to the Periodic Table Sara Gillingham with words by Isabel Thomas
$ 24.95
Glow in the dark small solar system. Each planet has a string attached to allow it to hang from any surface.
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3D Planets in a Tube
$ 8.99
Blue box with an image of the rainbow maker; a window cut out on the right side shows the parts to make the rainbow maker. On the left are two DIY experiments, candy rainbow and rainbow slime time.
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DIY Rainbow Catcher
$ 24.99
A hardcover book with a colorful illustrated image in green, blue, white, brown, black, and red of a young girl sitting at a table in her science lab.
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Goodnight Lab by Chris Ferrie
$ 17.99
Plush finger puppet of Bessie Coleman in her 1920's aviation attire.
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Bessie Coleman Magnetic Finger Puppet
$ 6.95
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.
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3D Cat Playing Cards
$ 9.95
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.
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3D Dog Playing Cards
$ 9.95
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.
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Across the Spectrum: Women & Gender Minorities in Physics Careers Playing Cards
$ 12.00
Dark gray socks with Pi symbol and 85 digits of Pi in white and green.
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85 Digits of Pi Sock
$ 12.95
A blue mini butterfly kite sits inside of a clear plastic package next to the kite string.. The product dimensions are 5.9" x 0.39" x 4.92".
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Butterfly Mini Kite
$ 5.50
Awika is a wind-up metal toy that sparks at the bottom as it moves about. It comes in green or red with two sets of three feet that propel it forward.
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Awika Wind Up
$ 16.95
A gif of the daddy long legs looking silver spider hopping about in circles.
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Katita Wind Up
$ 13.95
A gif of the Sparklz windup spinning round in a circle. It is silver with two wheels on either side and a pad where its sparks when in movement.
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Sparklz Wind Up
$ 14.95
A white box with a purple spikey crystal sits next to a specimen spikey crystal made with this kit. In black writing on the front of the box appears Magical Crystal. It is a kit that one can use to make a crystal specimen.
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Amethyst Magical Crystals Kit
$ 10.99
The game is set up for play. Seven cat pieces are puzzled together on a challenge card. The box is 3" x 6".
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Cat Stax Puzzle
$ 17.00
There are two playing cards, one set up with the puzzle dog pieces. Five dog puzzle pieces sit on the top and bottom of the cards; the dog pile box is to the right,
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Dog Pile Puzzle
$ 17.00
There is a blue box with an ocean scene, a shark, looking hungrily at a smaller fish from behind with the word CHOMP! in the background. A stack of cards with three discarded cards sits on the side.
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Chomp!
$ 12.50
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".
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Chemistry Fluxx
$ 16.99
A black card game package with blue text; the crew from Star Trek, the next generation, are on the cover in their uniforms with spaceships in the background.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Fluxx
$ 20.00