Browse Curiosity Shop Items

This is just a selection of items from the shop. Visit anytime during regular museum hours—admission is not required to visit the Curiosity Shop.

Masks with Dioramas (and Floral Prints!)

This mask features our 🦌 Moose at Gunflint Lake diorama! Adjustable elastic bands, ~~$12.95~~ $9.00
Wear our 🐺 Wolves at Shovel Point diorama as a mask. Adjustable elastic bands, ~~$12.95~~ $9.00
Who doesn’t love a woolly mammoth? Adjustable elastic bands, ~~$12.95~~ $9.00

This mask is out of this world! Adjustable elastic bands, ~~$12.95~~ $9.00
These 100 percent silk, two-layer masks are fair trade, and from a women-owned company. Variety of floral prints. $8.95

Fossils & Rocks

Crystal cupcakes $13.95
Real triolobite fossil $6.95
Agate bookends $36
Spiral polished goniatites (black) $4
Ammonite fossil (brown) $2
Orthoceres fossil $2
Fossilized coral egg $14
Books

A Field Guide to the Natural World of the Twin Cities $29.95; Birds in Minnesota $35; Hello World Solar $7.99; Kids Guide to Birds $13.95; Night Sky $16.95; Minnesota Bird Guide $14.95; activity books $6.95; What We See in the Stars $16.99; Loony Little: The Ice Cap is Melting! $16.99; The Wonders of Nature $19.99; One North Star $16.95; Searching for Minnesota Wildflowers $24.95; Planetarium $35; Hush Hush Forest $16.95; Goodnight Loon $9.95

The Kids Guide to Birds of Minnesota $13.95
Wooden birds, hand-carved and painted, fair-trade. Mini crow $19.95 ; cedar wax wing $54
Fowl language mug $13.95
Beautiful bird pins from an independent artist; 10 different birds available $12

Don’t be a Dik Dik game $12.95
Fizz rockets $7
Ecologies game $24.95
Build and maintain food webs in diverse biomes around the world. Designed by a biology instructor and featuring beautiful vintage Victorian art. Recommended for ages 12+
Minature rock and mineral or fossil collections $6

Bug bottle (includes illustrated field guide and instructions) $16.99
Spectacularly illustrated On the Origin of Species $18.99
Space Dash game $12.95
Artist-created mugs featuring animals in space (illustration also by a local artist) $22.95

Bell water bottle $20
Record your observations in this 5-year nature notebook that allows you to compare your notes on sightings and the changing of the seasons. $19.99
Snowy Owl $12; Eagle $13; Blue Jay $12; Gold Finch $12; Barn Owl $12; Kestrel $12; Red Tailed Hawk $12; Mammoth $10; 3 Piece Convergent Evolution $30; Earth Pin $10.95; Moon $10.95; Moon Phases (5) $45; Jupiter $14.95; Saturn $14.95; Neptune $12.95; Mars $10.95; Venus Pin $10.95; Uranus $14.95; Forest on the Moon $12; You’re a Gem $12.50; Mussel Pin $12; Space Dino $10; Einstein & Equation $15; Darwin & Turtle $15
Nasa Mug $10
Moon Mug (Heat Changing) $12.95
Deneen Pottery Mug ( Art by David Witt, Made in Saint Paul) $22.95
Rude Plants Mug $13.95
Fowl Birds Mug $13.95
Climate Change (Heat Changing) $12.95

Rocket Bye Baby $4.99
The Solar System $4.99
Hello World! Solar System $7.99
Goodnight Loon $9.95
Big and Small Room for All $7.99
Hello World! Moon Landing $7.99
Crinkle Crinkle Little Star $12.95
Where’s the Astronaut? $8.99
These fair trade hand-beaded brooches are very lightweight and come in a lovely gift-box.

Cranes $46; Snail $44; Scarab Beetle $38; Bullet Ant $38; Autumn Leaf $44; Passenger Pidgeon $44; Honey Bee $38; Dragonfly $44; Colorful Grasshopper $44; Chrysanthemum $44; Butterflies $44
750 Piece Crystal Puzzle $19.95
1000 Piece Vintage Puzzle $22
Amethyst Candle Holder $45
Cut Geode $37
Crystal Cupcakes $13.95
You’re a Gem pin $12.50
Amethyst Statement Ring $39.95
All Socks $10

Curiosity Shop proceeds support Bell programs, collections, and education.