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 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
$ 96.00
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.
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Otamatone Musical Instrument from Maywa Denki
From $ 45.00 - $ 52.00
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
$ 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.
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Laser Chess
$ 56.00
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.
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Robot Turtles: A Coding Board Game
$ 34.00
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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
$ 32.99
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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
$ 55.99
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
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
A narrowly oblong-shaped silver-colored magnet sits on top of a white background.
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Cow Magnet
$ 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.
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Magnetic Iron Filings
$ 8.95
A rectangular-shaped metal frame with continuous rows of pinheads with a concave skull shape impression sits against a white background.
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Classic Pin Art
$ 15.00
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
$ 170.00
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 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.
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Rainbow Lava Lamp 11.5oz
$ 28.00
Four brightly colored eco-friendly retro-looking wooden robots in various shapes and sizes.
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Tinker Totter Robots - 28 Piece Character Playset
$ 30.00
The puzzle illustrates an astronaut standing on a rocky planet's surface; there is a rainbow of colors of blues and reds behind in the starry sky.
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Rainbow One 500 Piece Puzzle
$ 15.00
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.
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San Francisco 1000 Piece Puzzle
$ 23.00
A 16oz clear pint glass with science tools in silhouette in navy ink.
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Science Tools Pint Glass
$ 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.
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Crafty Tools Pint Glass
$ 12.00
This 18oz drinking glass stands 6" tall, featuring a gray periodic table design wrapping around its surface.
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Periodic Table Drinking Glass
$ 20.00
A light blue box with two colorful birds at the top watching a blue elephant, and a green frog play math bingo.
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Simple Math Bingo
$ 19.99
The game's cover illustrates a forest with a fox in the foreground hiding behind a tree from the birds in their Sherlock Holmes outfits, looking for clues.
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Outfoxed!: A Cooperative Whodunit Game
$ 22.00