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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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.
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Dog Crimes: Who's to Blame Logic Game
$ 17.00
The image on the box is of a medieval king in his castle surveying his land.
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Kingdomino
$ 23.00
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"The Ingeniously Daring Chemistry" book is a hardcover with a blue cover and bright green, red and yellow text; there is an image of a young girl holding a chemistry flask popping and crackling.
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The Book of Ingeniously Daring Chemistry: 24 Experiments for Young Scientists by Sean Connolly
$ 14.95
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
The hardback book is dark gray with illustrations of different women of science in bright orange, blue, purple, pink, yellow, and teal.
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Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky
$ 16.99
Front packaging of the box with three cats pictured below the title. 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. Eight 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 Stax Puzzle
$ 17.00
8" x 8" board book illustrated book cover of the ABCs of Space Three circles with Asteroid, Binary Star, and Comet. Blue spine with science tools in white .
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ABCs of Space by Chris Ferrie and Julia Kregenow
$ 9.99
8" x 8" board book illustrated book cover of the ABCs of Engineering. Three circles with Amplifier, Battery, and Carnot Engine. Green spine with engineering tools
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ABCs of Engineering by Chris Ferrie and Sarah Kaiser
$ 9.99
A black music note shaped toy with a metal keychain attached.
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Otamatone Melody
$ 22.00