2012 HMNS Holiday Gift Guide

2012 HMNS HOLIDAY

GIFT GUIDE Our Museum Store is live online, just in time for the holidays. All of the shiny and scientific goodies you can find in person at the HMNS store are now available for purchase online at https://museumstore.hmns.org/ with 100 percent of the proceeds benefiting HMNS and its programming.

JEWELRY AND ACCESSORIES Prices vary From constellation jewelry to gemstones and from classic to contemporary, HMNS features several lines of jewelry that you just can’t find anywhere else in Houston, like Ananda Khalsa, Auden and Jessica Winzelberg, just to name a few.

MEGALODON TOOTH $145.00 - $295.00 Ruling the oceans millions of years ago, the Megalodon was the largest predatory marine animal that ever lived. Ranging up to 60 feet in length, it hunted prehistoric whales and giant turtles.

SPIKESAURUS BACKPACK $59.95 Makes you wish you were back in school, doesn't it? Our spikesaurus backpacks aren't as tough as they look they're actually quite soft - but they are as cool. Send your budding scientist to school in style with a book bag with bite.

ART GLASS $135.00 Our 3" paperweights are hand-blown by artists in Seattle, WA and contain diachronic glass developed by NASA and ash from the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens.

T-REX TRYING SOUVENIRS $2.95 - $14.95 Using simple illustrations with hilarious implications, Cartoonist Hugh Murphy captures the daily struggles of a T.rex with tiny arms and awkward proportions as he attempts everything from catching a butterfly to cracking a geode. Murphy partnered with HMNS to create this HMNS-exclusive cartoon.

DINOSAUR REPLICAS $6.95 - $29.95 If you dig dinosaurs, we’ve got the dirt on the best collectibles around. Children marvel at our jumbosized collection of some of the bestknown dinosaurs to ever roam the planet, including Stegosaurus and T.rex and Triceratops – oh my!

HOLIDAY ORNAMENTS $6.95 - $16.95 Celebrate the holidays—HMNSstyle! With several science-related ornaments to choose from, make your Christmas tree geekchic this holiday season.

ADOPT A DINO $29.95 How can you say no to that face? Answer: You can’t. Adopt a precious prehistoric critter and support HMNS by collecting them all.

Cuteness, carrying case and certificate included.

This item is exclusive to HMNS.

CAFFEINE PORCELAIN CUP $19.95 Caffeine is an alkaloid stimulant and, for many of us, a vital molecular component! Turn your disposable coffee cup into a reusable mug with our double-walled, thermal porcelain cup.

Designed exclusively for HMNS.

BUTTERFLY DISPLAYS $120.00 - 580.00 The Cockrell Butterfly Center is stocked with over 1500 live specimens of tropical butterflies, from butterfly ranches all over the world.

Since a butterfly's lifecycle is only 3 days to two weeks, the parent butterflies die and the ranchers are left with hundreds of these beautiful specimens that have fulfilled their natural lifecycle and are then sold.