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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Red and natural-colored wooden rocket ship with a number count down on the pieces. An astronaut waves through the window as the rocket as white smoke bellows at the bottom. It sits in a wooden box surrounded by blue sky and stars.
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321 Blast Off
$ 15.00
Circular 500 piece puzzle of the biodiversity of planet earth.
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Biodiversity 500 Piece Round Puzzle
$ 21.00
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 is an image of a 16oz pint glass with a twin-lens reflex camera in black ink.
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Twin-lens Reflex Camera 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
$ 18.99
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 gray duck and a white swan holding the puzzle pieces for one and the sun.
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Pre-School Numbers Puzzle Pairs
$ 15.99
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
$ 17.99
A colorful wooden stegosaurus is a standing upright puzzle with the alphabet letters on each puzzle piece—the letter A on the head to Z at the tip of the tail.
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Dinosaur A to Z Puzzle
$ 25.00
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
On the cover is a fun green alien in its spaceship with two LEDs brighty shining on the ship. There are samples of a rocket, cupcake, and dragon that can be made with the kit. A window at the bottom shows the clay colors.
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Klutz: Circuit Clay
$ 21.99
"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
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
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 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