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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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A long slender pink musical instrument that is in the shape of an eight note with a face styled like Kirby. The eyes are long ovals that are white, black, and blue. There are pink ovals at the cheeks above the mouth.

Otamatone Musical Instrument from Maywa Denki

from $ 45.00
from $ 45.00
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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

Wingspan

$ 65.00
$ 65.00
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.

Laser Chess

$ 64.99
$ 64.99
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The game board is set up with the game box; A turtle sits in an outdoor scene about to capture the coveted red jewel. The game board consists of bright colors of purple, blue, green, and red.

Robot Turtles: A Coding Board Game

$ 34.00
$ 34.00
A green, white and black box showcasing the glow-in-the-dark triangles and squares.

Magna-Tiles Glow -16 Piece Set

$ 32.99
$ 32.99
A white and blue box with a structure made out of colorful triangles, squares, equilateral triangles, and isosceles triangles.

Magna-Tiles Classic 32-Piece Set

$ 55.99
$ 55.99
A blue and red box with a window cut out in the front showcasing the rainbow-colored triangles with one square.

Magformers Rainbow Colors - 14 Piece Set

$ 25.99
$ 25.99
Shades of green, blue, teal, and natural in triangles and parallelograms create a rocket.

Magnetic Pals Spaceship

$ 28.00
$ 28.00
A narrowly oblong-shaped silver-colored magnet sits on top of a white background.

Cow Magnet

$ 15.00
$ 15.00
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.

Magnetic Iron Filings

$ 8.95
$ 8.95
A rectangular-shaped metal frame with continuous rows of pinheads with a concave skull shape impression sits against a white background.

Classic Pin Art

$ 15.00
$ 15.00
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.

Exploratorium Pocket Microscope

$ 17.99
$ 17.99
A lava lamp with rainbow colors painted on the outside goes from purple at the bottom to red at the top. The white lava changes colors as it moves through the green, yellow, and red on the glass surface.

Rainbow Lava Lamp 11.5oz

$ 29.95
$ 29.95
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Four brightly colored eco-friendly retro-looking wooden robots in various shapes and sizes.

Tinker Totter Robots - 28 Piece Character Playset

$ 30.00
$ 30.00
A multi-colored illustration of the Golden Gate Bridge with iconic San Francisco buildings behind it, including the Ferry Building, Palace of Fine Arts, Transamerica Pyramid, and San Francisco City Hall.

San Francisco 1000 Piece Puzzle

$ 23.00
$ 23.00
A 16oz clear pint glass with science tools in silhouette in navy ink.

Science Tools Pint Glass

$ 12.00
$ 12.00
A 16oz pint glass with scissors, snippers, pincushion, knitting needles, crochet hook, thread spool, and cone are screen printed all around in a turquoise silhouette.

Crafty Tools Pint Glass

$ 12.00
$ 12.00
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 light blue box with two colorful birds at the top watching a blue elephant, and a green frog play math bingo.

Simple Math Bingo

$ 19.99
$ 19.99
Six dogs of different species sit around a game board set up for play with tokins and game cards. The blue game box with the dogs illustrated images humorously accusing each other of the crime sits to the left.

Dog Crimes: Who's to Blame Logic Game

$ 18.00
$ 18.00
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
The hardback book is dark gray with illustrations of different women of science in bright orange, blue, purple, pink, yellow, and teal.

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky

$ 16.99
$ 16.99
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
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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