Holiday Gift Guide 2022

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 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
4 4" x 4" board books, Earth and Life, Chemists, Physicists, and Astronomers with slipcase. Features an illustration of Carolyn Porco and Albert Einstein.

Little Scientists Board Book Set by Emily Kleinman, Illustrated by Lydia Ortiz

$ 14.99
$ 14.99
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Hexagonal form with blue light LEDs moving back into infinity.

Infinity Mirror Optical Illusion of Light Depth

$ 27.99
$ 27.99
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A gif image of a solar-powered Swarovski crystal spinning at the bottom of a see-through colorful gear motor.

Solar Powered Rainbow Maker with Swarovski Crystal

$ 40.00
$ 40.00
The game box has a white background with periodic spelled out in colorful elemental tiles. A section of the different colorful elements lay across the middle of the box.

Periodic: A Chemistry Game of The Elements

$ 49.99
$ 49.99
Turquoise container filled with different shaped bubble dough.

Deluxe Bubble Dough Lab

$ 30.00
$ 30.00
A blue box containing an assortment of crystals, such as a brown geode, pink spikey crystal, red lightning bolt, blue dolphin, and green star, all in various colors. Also there is a blue acrylic box with a green and purple crystal inside.

Crystal Growing Kit

$ 39.99
$ 39.99
A magenta purple knitted octopus with cream white underneath, two eyes, and a mouth.

DIY Olivia Octopus Knitting Kit

$ 31.00
$ 31.00
A 16oz pint glass with images of the great women of science portraits around the outside printed in black. A golden beer fills the clear glass to show contrast against the black printed sections.

Great Women of Science Pint Glass 16oz

$ 20.00
$ 20.00
A stemless wine glass with the molecules and formula for wine in gold ink.

Chemistry of Wine Glass

$ 20.00
$ 20.00
Blue and yellow cover with cross axels, technic bricks, plates, pegs, gear, and wheels showcasing objects one can build with this kit.

Klutz LEGO Gadgets

$ 24.99
$ 24.99
"The Ultimate Book of Optical Illusions" is a softback copy with a white cover; contrasting legs create an optical illusion.

The Ultimate Book of Optical Illusions by Al Seckel

$ 21.99
$ 21.99
"Grandpa Magic" is a softcover book with a yellow, blue, and red illustration of an older male magician doing dazzling an audience of kids with lightning from fingertips.

Grandpa Magic: 116 Easy Tricks, Amazing Brainteasers, and Simple Stunts to Wow the Grandkids by Alan Zola Krenzek

$ 17.99
$ 17.99
Packing for Mars for Kids is a hardback book with a black cover: there is a kid-sized astronaut at the bottom with different animate objects, a phone, toilet paper, toothpaste, underwear, soap, a toilet, and a duck in a hot air balloon from the stories floating all around its head.

Packing for Mars for Kids by Mary Roach

$ 16.95
$ 16.95
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 clear glass drinking with blue and turquoise retro-style science labs equipment, such as a beaker, Bunsen burner, and test tubes.

Retro Science Lab Drinking Glass

$ 20.00
$ 20.00
A set of two red & gold earrings made of geometric circles and crescents.

Crimson Scarlet Earring

$ 40.00
$ 40.00
"Anatomy" is a hardback book with a black cover; an artistic collage rendering of the skeletal system with different patterned papers.

Anatomy: Explore the Human Body by the Editors of Phaidon

$ 59.95
$ 59.95
Three test tubes with white magic snow and green and pink glow powder sit within a dark blue box with a window cut out. Luminescent powders appear on the box.

Luminescent Lab Glow Science Chemistry

$ 19.99
$ 19.99
"The Disappearing Spoon" is a paperback book with a black cover; there are several beakers, test tubes, and science flasks filled with yellow liquid and one blue spoon connected by a network of clear tubes.

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Rivalry, Adventure, and History of the World from the Periodic Table of Elements (Youth Edition) by Sam Kean

$ 9.99
$ 9.99
Two cable cars are moving through California street near Chinatown. Red and blue vehicles from the 1940s line the road.

San Francisco Boardgame

$ 34.99
$ 34.99
Sushi Go! comes in a large red tin with the sushi characters on the outside; there are five cards with muted colors in purple, green, blue, pink, and yellow with different character cards such as wasabi, tempura, and chopsticks

Sushi Go!

$ 18.00
$ 18.00
STEM Baby Engineering: A toddler sits at a table with tools in their hands, tinkering. Cartoon gears emphasize the engineer.

STEM Baby: Engineering by Dana Goldberg

$ 9.99
$ 9.99