Browse Curiosity Shop Items
This is just a selection of items that may be available in the shop. Inventory is regularly refreshed to showcase new items and vendors. Visit the shop today to browse our unique varieties. The shop is open during regular museum hours—admission is not required to visit the Curiosity Shop.
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Get one, get a few ...
Stocking Stuffers
- Metal Earth
- Nightlight (Moon, Galaxy, Earth)
- Pop-up net
- Space stationary set
- Mini embroidery set
- Audubon 3D cards
- Foragers cards
- Ecologies cards
- Owl pellet
- Mushroom tool
- Space sticker
- Planet pins
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Get your art on!
Art Supplies
- Sketch book
- 24 watercolor brush pens
- Learn To Draw
- Ink Works lettering pens
- Two-sided colored pencils
- Travel watercolor set
- Science is Magic pouch
- Small Bee or Minerals pouch
Puzzles for Days!
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Cavallini 1,000-Piece Puzzles
- Cavallini Vintage puzzles
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1,000-Piece Puzzles
- Peter Pauper Puzzle: Succulent, Ocean or Birds
- Zodiac: Glow in the Dark!
- Kestrel Puzzle
- Mushrooms or Gems Puzzle
- Grand Tour Puzzle
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500-Piece Puzzles
- Biodiversity puzzle
- History of Space Travel
- Women of Science
- Planet Earth
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Puzzles: 300 and Fewer Pieces
- Two-Piece Bird puzzle: Color or Number
- Solar System floor puzzle
- Solar System 64-Piece
- Charlie Harper 300-Piece
Plush Animals (& Planets!)
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Stuffed Animals
- Everett (small mammoth)
- Tundra (large mammoth)
- Fox
- Wolf
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Celestial Buddies
- Sun
- Moon
- Earth (large)
- Earth (small)
- Mercury
- Venus
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More Celestial Buddies!
- Uranus
- Neptune
- Jupiter
- Saturn
- Comet
- Pluto
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Fossils & Rocks
- Crystal cupcakes
- Real triolobite fossil
- Agate bookends
- Spiral polished goniatites (black)
- Ammonite fossil (brown)
- Orthoceres fossil
- Fossilized coral egg
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Books
- A Field Guide to the Natural World of the Twin Cities
- Birds in Minnesota
- Hello World Solar
- Kids Guide to Birds
- Night Sky
- Minnesota Bird Guide
- activity books
- What We See in the Stars
- Loony Little: The Ice Cap is Melting!
- The Wonders of Nature
- One North Star
- Searching for Minnesota Wildflowers
- Planetarium
- Hush Hush Forest
- Goodnight Loon
Bird Gifts of all Kinds!
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- Audubon prints, 11×17
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- Audubon greeting card
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- 100 percent silk scarf
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- The Kids Guide to Birds of Minnesota
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Wooden birds, hand-carved and painted, fair-trade.
- Mini crow
- Cedar wax wing
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- Fowl language mug
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- Beautiful bird pins from an independent artist; 10 different birds available
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- 300-piece Charlie Harper puzzle
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- Birds of the Northwoods workbook
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- Nests • Eggs • Birds, by local author/illustrator Kelsey Oseid
Assorted Delights
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- Bell water bottle
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- Record your observations in this 5-year nature notebook that allows you to compare your notes on sightings and the changing of the seasons.
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- Snowy Owl
- Eagle
- Blue Jay
- Gold Finch
- Barn Owl
- Kestrel
- Red Tailed Hawk
- Mammoth
- 3 Piece Convergent Evolution
- Earth Pin
- Moon
- Moon Phases (5)
- Jupiter
- Saturn
- Neptune
- Mars
- Venus Pin
- Uranus
- Forest on the Moon
- You’re a Gem
- Mussel Pin
- Space Dino
- Einstein & Equation
- Darwin & Turtle
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- Nasa Mug
- Moon Mug (Heat Changing)
- Deneen Pottery Mug ( Art by David Witt, Made in Saint Paul)
- Rude Plants Mug
- Fowl Birds Mug
- Climate Change (Heat Changing)
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- Rocket Bye Baby
- The Solar System
- Hello World! Solar System
- Goodnight Loon
- Big and Small Room for All
- Hello World! Moon Landing
- Crinkle Crinkle Little Star
- Where’s the Astronaut?
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These fair trade hand-beaded brooches are very lightweight and come in a lovely gift-box.
- Cranes
- Snail
- Scarab Beetle
- Bullet Ant
- Autumn Leaf
- Passenger Pidgeon
- Honey Bee
- Dragonfly
- Colorful Grasshopper
- Chrysanthemum
- Butterflies
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- 750 Piece Crystal Puzzle
- 1000 Piece Vintage Puzzle
- Amethyst Candle Holder
- Cut Geod
- Crystal Cupcakes
- You’re a Gem pin
- Amethyst Statement Ring
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- All Socks
Jewelry