Art to Go: Museum Gift Shops
JUNE 11, 2009
The city's art and design museum stores make it easy to be a gift guru.
The MoMA Store has become an international design institution, offering classic and contemporary home décor goodies and furniture from favorites like Muji and Herman Miller as well as attention-getting extras like the infamous Clocky alarm that scurries across the floor when it rings. The Shop at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum is exactly what you'd expect from the city's most renown design museum, offering one-of-a-kind creations from the world's most innovative designers. The store at the American Folk Art Museum continues to win kudos for some of the most original handmade gifts you'll find anywhere. Hand-crafted instruments and arty jewelry are only some of the funky finds that tempt museum visitors who wander into the gift store. The New Museum Store gets serious about art, stocking a comprehensive selection of contemporary art book titles. They also offer a library service that specializes in sourcing contemporary art publications and a personalized buying service for private collectors, institutional libraries, and university art departments as they develop their collections. The store at the Tenement Museum offers quintessential New York icons-turned-accessories like the classic "We are happy to serve you" ceramic cups–they've even organized their wares by items "of Jewish interest," "of Italian interest," and "of Irish interest."
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