Holiday Gift Guides: For the Museum Lover
by Maya Rodgers
This week our holiday gift guide blog brings the joy of museums to your shopping cart! Do you have an avid museum goer in your life? Give the gift of all things Museum of the Earth this holiday season. Not only will those museum lovers be appreciative, they’ll know that your purchase is going towards programming for them to enjoy in person or virtually at their favorite museum.
Cecil Crossing Sticker | $1.00
Stickers are small but mighty! The museum lover in your life can rep this sticker on a water bottle, laptop, or even car. It makes the perfect stocking stuffer!
Core Sample Tumbler Glass | $17.95
Enjoy your morning cold brew from this Core Sample Tumbler while prepping for your geology field work. Explore layers of Earth's geological history while you sip your chocolate milk. Get lost in rock-inspired reveries while sipping an evening cocktail – on the rocks, of course!
The Dinosaur Museum: An Unforgettable Interactive, Virtual Tour Through Dinosaur History | $19.95
Young, eager paleontologists wanted. Apply within. We need YOUR expertise! So step inside The Dinosaur Museum, the book where kids get to act like paleontologists. This amazing volume gives readers a behind-the-scenes peek at a museum, with an interactive experience that evokes a visit to a natural history museum. Forget about waiting in long lines for hours. This interactive guide takes you on a room-by-room tour of the most fun-packed museum you can imagine. Learning about prehistoric monsters becomes a practical challenge to the scientist in every reader. Each room points to a range of interactive investigations that can be carried out in the dino-lab gatefold flap. You can open the specimen drawer filled with fossils, look at specimen slides through the microscope, and use a whole host of interactive features: a pop-up fossil finds map, a dinosaur time line, and a sliding chart that allows you to compare the size of dinosaurs with modern animals.
Hyde Park Mastodon T-Shirt Adult ($19.99)
Youth ($9.99)
Is the Hyde Park Mastodon your favorite part of the Museum of the Earth? It sure is one of ours! Your museum lover will adore this shirt, and might even want to wear it in front of the real thing!
Individual Membership | $40.00
There’s no gift like the gift of a membership to a museum lover’s favorite institution!
-Admission to the Museum of the Earth and the Cayuga Nature Center for one person.
-Free reciprocal admission to over 300 science centers and museums worldwide through the ASTC passport program.