Museum shop interior

Holiday shoppers can combine culture and commerce when they shop at a museum store.

Forget the novelty pencils, these museums are stepping up the gift shop experience with exclusive ranges and the best in local design

Museum shops not only provide opportunities for cultural institutions to increase revenue but also to create unique products and experiences for the visitor

A visit to the new IKEA museum reveals a tension between Swedish values and a bid for global power, argues Tom Cubbin in this Opinion column

The MoMA Design Store opened its second standalone store in Kyoto, designed by Lumsden.

Patches of natural and artificial light highlight the curved layers of the National Museum of Qatar’s recently completed gift shop. The massive undulating walls were constructed from over 40,000 pieces of timber that tower high above visitors’ heads and imitate the shape and feeling of the Dahl Al Misfir or Cave of Light. The Qatar landmark is an underground formation that contains a wealth of gypsum deposits, which illuminate the cave with a phosphorescent glow and often form clusters of…

A postcard pit-stop? No longer. These days, many museums are blurring the line between shop and exhibition space, and products on hand–often limited edition or collector’s items–are expected to stand out almost as artfully as pieces in the permanent collection.

Architecture studio Adjaye Associates has revealed its concept for a museum dedicated to west African art, which will be built in Benin City, Nigeria.

Completed in 2018 in Lodève, France. Images by Vincent Fillon. On this complex site, the series of constructions is hard to decipher. Except perhaps for the Hôtel Fleury, none of the buildings really stands out....