
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!)
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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
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This mask is out of this world! Adjustable elastic bands,
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These 100 percent silk, two-layer masks are fair trade, and from a women-owned company. Variety of floral prints. $8.95
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Get one, get a few ...
Stocking Stuffers
Metal Earth $10
Nightlight (Moon, Galaxy, Earth) $6
Pop-up net $8
Space stationary set $10
Mini embroidery set $5
Audubon 3D cards $9.95
Foragers cards $9.95
Ecologies cards $24.95
Owl pellet $7
Mushroom tool $11
Space sticker $4
Planet pins $10.95–14.95 -
Get your art on!
Art Supplies
Sketch book $7.99
24 watercolor brush pens $20
Learn To Draw $7.99
Ink Works lettering pens $9.99
Two-sided colored pencils $9.50
Travel watercolor set $23.95
Science is Magic pouch $12.99
Small Bee or Minerals pouch $15.95
Puzzles for Days!
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Cavallini 1,000-Piece Puzzles
Cavallini Vintage puzzles $22 each
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1,000-Piece Puzzles
Peter Pauper Puzzle: Succulent, Ocean or Birds $15.99
Zodiac: Glow in the Dark! $20
Kestrel Puzzle $19.99
Mushrooms or Gems Puzzle $19.99
Grand Tour Puzzle $19.99 -
500-Piece Puzzles
Biodiversity puzzle $20
History of Space Travel $16.99
Women of Science $16.99
Planet Earth $16.99 -
Puzzles: 300 and Fewer Pieces
Two-Piece Bird puzzle: Color or Number $14.95
Solar System floor puzzle $12.99
Solar System 64-Piece $10.95
Charlie Harper 300-Piece $15.95
Plush Animals (& Planets!)
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Stuffed Animals
Everett (small mammoth) $12.95
Tundra (large mammoth) $23.95
Fox $9.95
Wolf $9.95 -
Celestial Buddies
Sun $29.99
Moon $21.99
Earth (large) $24.99
Earth (small) $21.99
Mercury $21.99
Venus $21.99 -
More Celestial Buddies!
Uranus $21.99
Neptune $21.99
Jupiter $25.99
Saturn $25.99
Comet $24.99
Pluto $27.99
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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
Bird Gifts of all Kinds!

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Audubon prints, 11×17, $12.95 each
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Audubon greeting card, $3.25
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100 percent silk scarf $12
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The Kids Guide to Birds of Minnesota $13.95
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Wooden birds, hand-carved and painted, fair-trade. Mini crow $19.95 ; cedar wax wing $54
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Fowl language mug $13.95
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Beautiful bird pins from an independent artist; 10 different birds available $12
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300-piece Charlie Harper puzzle $15.95
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Birds of the Northwoods workbook $6.95
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Nests • Eggs • Birds, by local author/illustrator Kelsey Oseid $16.99
Assorted Delights
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Bell water bottle $20
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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. $19.99
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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
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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
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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
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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
Jewelry
