Holiday Gift Guide 2026

Roam through our collection of art and science themed gifts to uncover treasures, like the Mini Solar Mars Rover or Rocket Bath Toy, to delight all your favorite people. Every purchase helps to support the Exploratorium’s 501(c)(3) nonprofit mission of transforming science learning worldwide.

Enjoy the best-kept shopping secret in San Francisco—the Exploratorium Store—either online or at Pier 15, where you’ll find welcoming staff and convenient gift wrapping

Blue, red, green & silver wind-up, lenticular dog playing cards, ploysquish box black and multicolored, blue, green and red magnatiles, brown raccoon holding corn and a pink & blue otamatone melody against a green background
Holiday Budget Friendly Gifts
Red drop earrings, red and black anatomy pouch, silver metallic puzzle, black flask with Exploratorium in silver, green and yellow stag beetle with black legs
Holiday Gifts for Curious Adults
Cat game on top right in orange, green, and purple, Blue robot, brown flashlight bear, multicolored building blocks and a pixel piano in rainbow colors
Holiday Gifts for Kids
Blue panel with colored lights, white & black microscope, purple jellyfish, pink & orange book Simply Quantum Physics, and black bridge with gray attachments against a blue background
Holiday Gifts for Science Lovers
A collage of different items from the top; Cats Knocking Things off Ledges, blue flask, purple crochet jellyfish, green & gold beetle, building blocks in green, yellow, blue and pink and The Science of Baking against a red background.
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Illustrated book cover graph paper with red science and invention drawing. A young girl, Ada Twist, and her brother lookout.11.3" x 9.3" hardcover book.

Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty

$ 18.99
$ 18.99
Prolate ellipsoid made out of sold non-magnetic aluminum that, when one spins on its side, will flip upright and continue to spin. It sits upon a flat round mirror encased with a black rim.

Aluminum PhiTOP

$ 20.00
$ 20.00
A blue stuffed plush toy shaped like the common cold virus. It is blue, round, and has large black eyes.

Giant Microbe Common Cold

$ 12.95
$ 12.95
Golden hexagon earrings with the numbers of pi in a spiral. The symbol for pi is engraved in the center, as well as the word "shrine."

Exploratorium Pi Shrine Earrings

$ 14.00
$ 14.00
Towel with various mathematical equations and formulas in different colors on a white background

Math Equations Dish Towel

$ 13.99
$ 13.99
Oval pin with rainbow circles. The word "exploratorium" in blue on a white rectangle is in the middle of the pin.

Exploratorium Pride Vintage Rainbow Enameled Pin

$ 12.99
$ 12.99
A rainbow inside an infinity symbol.

Pride Infinity Rainbow Pin

$ 12.99
$ 12.99
Tea towel with illustrations of kitchen accidents and their consequences on a white background

Kitchen Accidents Dish Towel

$ 13.99
$ 13.99
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Round enamel pin outlined in gold. Two circles make up the pin, with the outer circle displaying 12 colors in a wheel. The inner circle has cutouts that show a sub section of the color wheel. Pin is sitting on a wooden table with colored pencils in the background.

Color Wheel Spinner Pin

$ 21.99
$ 21.99
A transparent cube with different colored sides.

Exploratorium Color-Mixing Cube

$ 15.00
$ 15.00
A purple stuffed toy with large round eyes and eyelashes.

Giant Microbe Kissing Disease

$ 12.95
$ 12.95
A plush white mouse toy with pink inner ears, pink eyes, and a long pink tail, shown on a plain white background.

White Lab Mouse

$ 15.95
$ 15.95
A red anatomical illustration of a human heart with labeled parts on a white background, including the aorta, pulmonary arteries, pulmonary veins, right ventricle, left ventricle, and valves on a white cotton kitchen towel.

Anatomical Heart Kitchen Towel

$ 16.99
$ 16.99
Red spiral bound notebook cover with anatomical heart illustration.

Anatomical Heart Spiral Journal

$ 15.99
$ 15.99
A red cover with images of different shapes on the cover drawn in yellow.

Simply Math

$ 16.99
$ 16.99
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A red, blur and yellow wooden robot with red, blue and yellow lights lit up, switches and plugs

Blinkity Robot: A Busy Robot Toy

$ 31.00
$ 31.00
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Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry is a paperback book. It is 9.1 x 6.1  inches in dimension. The cover is white, with drawings of different space-related planets, satellites, asteroids, and black holes appear on the cover in purple, yellow, red, orange, and blue-green.   

Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson with Gregory Mone

$ 11.95
$ 11.95
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"Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" is a hardcover book. The cover is a photograph of the Milky Way with a person holding a book in silhouette.

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

$ 18.95
$ 18.95
Notebook with celestial design on cover

Eclipse Spiral Notebook

$ 15.99
$ 15.99
A white rectangular folding water-painting set shown on a plain white background, including the closed lid with a black lotus flower graphic and quote, the open painting board in its stand, and a small paintbrush.

Buddha Board Mini - White

$ 19.95
$ 19.95
Magna-Tiles Micromags packaging with colorful magnetic tiles on a white background

Magna-Tiles MicroMAGS Travel Set

$ 24.99
$ 24.99
Turquoise playing card box with a window to show a lenticular image of a dog. Stack of lenticular cat and dog cards sitting next to it.

3D Dog Playing Cards

$ 9.95
$ 9.95
Red and white box with a window to see lenticular black and white cat image on playing cards. Four playing cards with different lenticular cat images lying in front of the playing cards box.

3D Cat Playing Cards

$ 9.95
$ 9.95
"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