Giftaholic Recommends… The Science Museum

When buying someone a gift it’s very tempting to to take the easy way out and just give them some money or a gift voucher, they’re guaranteed to like that right? Well sure, but it’s not very personal is it. Here at giftaholic we believe that gifts should be about more than the random swapping of money at various intervals in the year, or the giving of generic department store gifts, a person and their gift should be the perfect match.

The internet is a vast place so out there somewhere there has to be a gift that is like goldilocks porridge, just right, the only difficulty is in finding it. That is why we’re starting our Giftaholic Recommends series, to bring to your attention gifts that are a little bit different, gifts that you might not have considered before.

Our first stop in the series is aimed to help your find gifts for children because once they have grown out of the phase of finding the box more exciting than the toy inside, children more than most are incredibly difficult to buy for.

Unlike adults they never fail to hide their disappointment if they don’t like what they get. Some say ungrateful, some say honest, but it really doesn’t matter as it leaves you with the same dilema, what do you buy for them? Is this years trend now last years trend, do they still like High School Musical or is that so last year?

So here is our recommendation, the Science Museum. The Science Museum online store is cram packed with gifts that are not only stupidly entertaining, keeping children occupied for hours on end but they’re also educational. It’s a win win situation, who said that fun and learning had to be mutually exclusive!

They have a fantastic balance of gifts ranging from educational stocking fillers prices like the fabulously titled book “How Loud Can You Burp?” full of funny and infomative facts about the world we live in (£4.99) to gifts that are just plain fun, such as the two-way walkie-talkies (£49.99) and Antworks, a space-age ant habitat designed by Nasa to study ants in micro-gravity (£19.99).

All these great gifts and many more like them are available online or in the shop at the Science Museum (like a mini educational Hamleys).