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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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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 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
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"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
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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
STEM Baby Technology: A baby sits at a table watching a program on an iPhone, and a drawing of a rocket and a satellite is above the baby's head.

STEM Baby: Technology by Dana Goldberg

$ 9.99
$ 9.99
STEM Baby Science: A toddler sits at a table with red liquid in her hand and on the table with test tubes. A beaker with clear liquid sits to her left, with cartoon bubbles cascading upward.

STEM Baby: Science by Dana Goldberg

$ 9.99
$ 9.99
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A product shot of the box is blue with a blue square robot with big eyes and grey wheels on the front.

Botley The Coding Robot 2.0

$ 78.99
$ 78.99
"Tools: The Ultimate Guide" is a hardcover book with a dark brown cover; different tools are drawn in a lighter brown on the surface with a white ruler to highlight the title in red.

Tools: The Ultimate Guide by Jeff Waldman

$ 24.95
$ 24.95
A kit that changes through the hues of colors soldering kit put together; there is a black hexagon hue PCB attached with white RGB LED light, three light blue dials, and a silver coin holder.

Learn to Solder Kit: Hue

$ 14.99
$ 14.99
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The product is set up with all the different elements in the kit, such as vehicles with wheels, a helicopter, a diving bell, or a boat.

Intro to Engineering

$ 39.95
$ 39.95
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A crazy green and yellow machine with levers, smoke, wind turbines, umbrellas, tubes, etc., with a little figure in the front running the engine; My Crazy Inventions Sketchbook is written in the marquee.

My Crazy Inventions Sketchbook

$ 16.99
$ 16.99
The solar Shashibo features yellow and red swirls of holographic paper in open black packaging.

Shashibo Puzzle Cube

$ 27.99
$ 27.99