Holiday Gift Guide 2021

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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It is a blue and beige box with an illustration of elements from the periodic table, a chemistry flask, a testable, and a Bunson burner. The box is 5" x 3.75".
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Chemistry Fluxx
$ 20.00
The book cover is purple, orange, and white; two drawings of young athletes, one is a gymnast, and one is a football player.
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The Secret Science of Sports: The Math, Physics, and Mechanical Engineering Behind Every Gland Slam, Triple Axel, and Penalty Kick by Jennifer Swanson
$ 16.99
The game board is set up with the game box; A turtle sits in an outdoor scene about to capture the coveted red jewel. The game board consists of bright colors of purple, blue, green, and red.
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Robot Turtles: A Coding Board Game
$ 34.00
Glow-in-the-dark stars and moon against a dark ceiling.
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Starry Night Glow-in-the-Dark Sticker Set.
$ 18.00
Blue box with close-up images of the components to create the chain reactions. Including rolly top, ball, pillars, and planks.
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Zig & Go Roll Action-Reaction 28 Piece Set
$ 34.99
Blue circular box with 36 different shark species represented.
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36 Sharks 100-Piece Puzzle
$ 20.00
A pink and blue box with samples of mini animals that you can make. Included are a panda, a fox, a bunny, an octopus, a penguin, a sloth, and a bird,
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Klutz Sew Mini Animals: More Than 12 Animal Plushies to Stitch and Stuff
$ 22.99
An 2.76 x 8.46 x 8.46 inches box. An illustrated image of a grizzly bear and club are standing by a pool in front of a waterfall surrounded by trees and plants. The name of the game Parks is in white front on the right upper corner.
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Parks Board Game
$ 50.00
The math-themed rocks glass is etched with digits of Pi for your detail-oriented side, and an approximation of Pi.
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Pi Theorem Rocks Glass
$ 18.00
A hardcover book with a black cover, a grid design features little illustrations of elements such as a mushroom, pyramid, octopus, and an airplane. A periodic table sits in the middle of the page.
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Exploring the Elements: A Complete Guide to the Periodic Table Sara Gillingham with words by Isabel Thomas
$ 24.95
A glass light bulb is standing upright illuminated with an LED coil.
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Cordless Lightbulb
$ 40.00
Yellow and white shuttle rocket launcher.
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Build Your Own NASA Spaceship
$ 35.00
Fifty-three components from the kit including gears, mirrors, color filters, polaroid filters, and tools.
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Optical Science Lab
$ 39.99
Two children are smiling with cards in their hands; the gameboard sits in front of them, set up for play.
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Space Escape Cooperative Strategy Game
$ 25.95
A black box with chemistry equipment in a green tray,
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Ultimate Chemistry Set
$ 50.00
Blue and green box with beakers and test tubes filled with blobby biopolymers monsters complete with eyes and tentacles. Four bottles of neon bio ooze sit in the right bottom corner,
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Klutz Maker Lab: Bio Chem Creatures
$ 19.99
Rainbow-colored box with a rainbow circular puzzle sitting in the middle of the box.
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Round Rainbow 800 Piece Puzzle
$ 28.00
An extraordinarily detailed and precise Hurdy Gurdy complete with strings and cranking mechanism made entirely out of wood.
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UGears Hurdy-Gurdy
$ 84.99
The book cover is blue with ten white line drawings of different animals that can take flight, such as a bat, a butterfly, a hawk, a sparrow, and a flying squirrel.
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Book of Flight: 10 Record-Breaking Animals with Wings By Gabrielle Balkan
$ 19.95
A product shot of the box is blue with a blue square robot with big eyes and grey wheels on the front.
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Botley The Coding Robot 2.0
$ 78.99
A yellow book cover for "Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law" by Mary Roach has a nature scout arrowhead-shaped emblem depicting animals in the wild.
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
$ 26.95
"Anatomy" is a hardback book with a black cover; an artistic collage rendering of the skeletal system with different patterned papers.
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Anatomy: Explore the Human Body by the Editors of Phaidon
$ 59.95
Blue and yellow cover showing four scientists and their discoveries.
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The Amazing Discoveries of 100 Brilliant Scientists by Abigail Wheatley
$ 12.99
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.
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3D Dog Playing Cards
$ 9.95