Your Ultimate Holiday Shopping Guide: TX Museum Gift Shop Edition
Wherever we go in Texas, we always make time for the museum gift shops. Our museum shops reliably have some of the most fun, unique and affordable gifts (for yourself and others) to be found. We’ve rounded up some of the best of them this year. For more shopping delight, be sure to check our events listings, as many galleries host special holiday shows this time of year (read: a great way to find small, affordable, gift-appropriate art). Happy holidays!
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- Swedish Bird Feeder. Watch your feathered friends up close with this beautiful and simple acrylic birdhouse that attaches to your window with suction. $19.95 @ the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
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- Blenko Diamond Optic Carafe. Give the discerning design buffs on your list this classic from one of the great American glass firms. $47 @ the Blanton Shop, Austin
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- “Bubble” Necklaces by Margarita Mileva. Made from recycled rubber bands. $85 at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
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- Coaster Tray. Use as one tray or individual coasters. $95 @ the MFAH.
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- Condom Packet Whistle by Connie Roberts (other designs available). Hand-carved wood. $12 @ Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.
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- Copper enameled cuff, by Barb Sipher $99 @ Women and Their Work
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- Westward Ho Covered Wagon Play Set. Ages 3 and up. $42 @ The Amon Carter Museum.
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- “Cykochik” handmade bags. Each vinyl bag is handmade in Dallas by designer Nikki Duong Koenig and her team of artisans. $38 each at The MAC.
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- A colorful accent for the home made by artists Dylan and Amy Engler at their studio in Columbus, Ohio. Each one is different and all are made of recycled materials. $87 @ the Kimbell Art Museum
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- Gnome Cookie Jar. White porcelain with gold hat/lid. 13” tall. $55 @ Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
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- Handmade Texas mugs, $15 ea. @ Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont
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- Lars Lerup: One Million Acres & No Zoning. As Lerup writes, “Contemporary Houston is neither city nor Metropolis, but an urban condition of a third kind.” Hardcover, 273 pages, signed by the author, $39.95 @ the MFAH
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- Leather and Brass Hoop Necklace by Regan Rowland. Inspired by the great saddle makers of the West. $92 @ Amon Carter Museum.
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- Sign Language “Love” sculpture by Chris Lattanzio. $50 @ The MAC, Dallas
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- Marble pocket knives. $50 @ Women and Their Work, Austin
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- The Wooden House by Johnny Lamar. A model replaca of Lamar’s homested in Beaumont. $100 @ Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont
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- Wide Cuff by dconstruct. Recycled resin with organic material inset. $36 @ Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.
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- Texas Shellstone Bookends. $87.50 @ the Amon Carter Museum
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- Sprocket Rocket Lomography Film Camera. A new Lomographic experience: the Sprocket Rocket boasts a super-wide angle lens for panoramas, dual winding knobs for easy multiple exposures and of course, sprockets! Uses 35mm film. $90 @ the Dallas Museum of Art.
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- Videos from Webb Gallery. MAKE: by Scott Ogden & Malcolm Hearn: an intimate journey into the lives of four American self taught artists: Prophet Royal Robertson, Hawkins Bolden, Judith Scott, and Ike Morgan. “as hish and fun and beautifully primal crazy enlightening as it gets” – David Bryne WHO IS BOZO TEXINO, by Bill Daniel. The secret history of Hobo Graffiti. “a hypnotic, rail-rattling tone poem of subversive wayfarer wisdom” – Sacramento News & Review. $24.95 each, shipping included, from Webb Gallery, Waxahachie
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- Rings of Time Wood Puzzle, by Looksur/ Vaca Valiente. Puzzle made from the trunk of cypress trees that died naturally in Patagonia, Argentina, comes in easy and difficult. $45 @ the Nasher Sculpture Center.
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- Little Wooleys Toys. “The Chamula Indians of southern Mexico are given at birth a soul companion, who shares for a lifetime every stroke of fate of its human counterpart… These beautiful animals are uniquely hand crafted by a young Chamulan girl named Angelica, and her sister. Native to Chiapas, the spend their time perfecting the craft that has been passed down for generations.” $10 – $32 @ The MAC, Dallas
Shop resources:
Amon Carter Museum: (817) 989-5001, http://www.cartermuseum.org/shop
Art Museum of Southeast Texas: (409) 832-3432, http://www.amset.org/store
Blanton Art Museum: (512) 475-6406, http://blantonmuseum.org/visit/museum_shop/ Twitter: @BlantonShop
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston: (713) 284-8272, http://www.camh.org/shop/shop-info
Dallas Museum of Art: (214) 922-1255, http://www.shopdma.org/
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft: (713) 529-4848 ext. 202, http://www.crafthouston.org/default.asp?id=104
Kimbell Art Museum: (817) 332-8451, https://www.kimbellart.org/SF/
McKinney Avenue Contemporary: (214) 953-1212, http://www.the-mac.org/TheMacStore
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: (713) 639-7360, https://ecommerce.mfah.org/retail-banner.aspx
Nasher Sculpture Center: (214) 242-5110, http://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/Store
Webb Gallery*: (972) 938-8085, http://www.webbartgallery.com/
Women and Their Work shop: (512) 477-1064, http://www.womenandtheirwork.org/shoponline_at_watw.html
*OK, Webb Gallery is not, technically speaking, a museum gift store. We include them because their space is museum-like, in Waxahachie, and one of the best things in the Texas art scene.
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