Holiday Gift Guide 2020

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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"Gemstones of the World" is a hardcover book with black with five rows of minerals across the front alternating with text.
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Gemstones of the World: Revised 5th Edition by Walter Schumann
$ 24.95
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The wooden collection box with four rows of three minerals. Five polished minerals: Selenite, Bloodstone, Aventurine, Snowflake Obsidian, Tigereye Five rough natural minerals: Chalcopyrite (aka Peacock Ore), Pyrite, Orange Calcite, Green Calcite, Rose Quartz Two fossils: Shark Tooth, and Orthoceras.
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Exploratorium Mineral Collection Box
$ 36.00
A sturdy paperback book 4.9" x 5.6" in dimension. The book cover is blue and white with ten fossils in the middle of the cover. The title and text are blue and black.
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Smithsonian Handbooks: Fossils: The Clearest Recognition Guide Available by David Ward
$ 24.00
An 11.5 x 11.5 x 3 inches box with a blue sky background. An illustrated image of a white bird similar to a scissor-tailed flycatcher is in full flight facing out. Wingspan appears on the bottom of the box in white
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Wingspan
$ 60.00
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
A gray chess board is set up for play with the blue and red pieces set dynamically from each other, showing the red laser light bouncing off of the pieces.
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Laser Chess
$ 46.95
A playset is set up for the two brown dogs to interact with a slide, a teeter-totter, and a dog house.
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Coding Critters™ Ranger & Zip
$ 49.99
Two gray kittens sit in their purple, teal and pink playset area, complete with a slide, yarn, butterfly cat toy, cat house, and trees.
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Coding Critters™ Scamper & Sneaker
$ 49.99
There is a square teal robot with white and green wheels and two large eyes; an orange frame can be clipped onto the robot to give it hands, a blue and green remote for the robot, and a stack of coding cards.
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Botley The Coding Robot
$ 59.99
A green, white and black box showcasing the glow-in-the-dark triangles and squares.
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Magna-Tiles Glow -16 Piece Set
$ 29.99
A white and blue box with a structure made out of colorful triangles, squares, equilateral triangles, and isosceles triangles.
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Magna-Tiles Clear Colors - 32-Piece Set
$ 51.50
A blue and red box with a window cut out in the front showcasing the rainbow-colored triangles with one square.
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Magformers Rainbow Colors - 14 Piece Set
$ 25.99
Shades of pink, white and natural in triangles and parallelograms create a little kitty face.
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Magnetic Pals Kitty
$ 22.00
Shades of green, blue, teal, and natural in triangles and parallelograms create a rocket.
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Magnetic Pals Spaceship
$ 22.00
Six dinosaurs, stegosaurus, tyrannosaurus rex, brachiosaurus, pachycephalosaurus, triceratops, and a pterodactyl made colorful Hey Clay sit around a little dinosaur egg.
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Dinosaurs Clay Set
$ 20.00
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
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
The product box is purple, pink, red, and yellow shades. Twelve cards with two matching sets have different illustrations about outer space. An astronaut is holding an American flag, the planet Uranus, Neptune's biggest moon, Jupiter's major moons, Mars, and a Space shuttle, to name a few.
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Space Exploration Memory and Matching Game
$ 16.99
A gray box with different magic items along with top and bottom.
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Magic: Silver Edition
$ 24.95
A narrowly oblong-shaped silver-colored magnet sits on top of a white background.
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Cow Magnet
$ 9.95
The gray iron filings are visible through the transparent sections on the top and bottom of the clear plastic container with a red lid and a blue and white label.
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Magnetic Iron Filings
$ 8.95
The microscope is 5.1 x 6.1 x 12.2 inches in dimension. It has a white body with black turning knobs, eyepiece, magnifying glass lenses, and a slide mount.
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Duo-Scope Microscope
$ 116.00
The pocket microscope is 3" x 5" and fits easily in your hand. The image is a side view of the microscope. It is silver and black with a clear plastic bottom where the slide fits into.
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Exploratorium Pocket Microscope
$ 16.50
A purple metallic base and top surround a transparent glass container filled with purple metallic wax melted from the heat and bubbled upward.
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Metallic Purple Lava Lamp
$ 27.00