Gift guides
Short, hand-picked lists from the museum shops we cover. Every pick links to the museum's own store.
Art jigsaw puzzles from museum shops, easy to brutal15 art jigsaw puzzles from 8 museum shops, with piece counts, finished sizes and an honest note on how hard each one is, Nighthawks included.
Dinosaur gifts for every age, from museum shops15 dinosaur gifts from 4 museum shops, sorted by recipient: board books and plush for small children, dig kits for older kids, a T. rex tooth cast for adults.
Frida Kahlo gifts from museum shops15 Frida Kahlo gifts from 6 museum shops: a puzzle of the double portrait SFMOMA owns, posters, books on her home and wardrobe, and small extras.
Gifts for design lovers, from museum design shops14 gifts for people who care how things are made, from a $23 set of Pantone notebooks to the Bauhaus lamp, picked from the shops of Cooper Hewitt, SFMOMA, LACMA and others.
Hokusai and Japanese art gifts from museum shops15 gifts for lovers of Hokusai's Great Wave and Japanese craft, from 7 museum shops: prints, books, porcelain and lacquer made in Japan.
Luxury gifts for people who have everything13 luxury gifts from museum shops for the person who has everything: artist-designed chess sets, a Frank Gehry kettle, a brass locomotive nameplate and more.
Monet gifts for the person who loves water lilies15 Monet gifts from museum shops: Water Lilies in silk and on coasters, a Stacks of Wheat print, the Houses of Parliament, and books worth giving.
Christmas ornaments from museum shops15 Christmas ornaments from 9 museum shops: Nighthawks in enamel, a Frank Stella star, a bone china Flying Scotsman and a Danish paper angel.
Museum gifts for kids that are fun first15 gifts for children from 7 museum shops, sorted by age: a plush blue whale, a wooden Flying Scotsman, a first microscope, art kits and a few good books.
Museum gifts under $25: one pick from each shopOne gift under $25 from each of 13 museum shops, from a glow-in-the-dark Urban Light pin at LACMA to a Mallard rubber duck from the Science Museum.
Museum gifts under $50, sorted by who they are for14 museum gifts between $25 and $50 from 10 museum shops, sorted by recipient: for the host, the cook, the desk, the commuter and a child.
Pop Art gifts: Warhol, Basquiat, Haring and Lichtenstein15 Pop Art gifts from 6 museum shops: a Warhol banana plate, Basquiat puzzles and books, Keith Haring coasters and a Lichtenstein skateboard deck.
Space gifts for people who still look up15 space and astronomy gifts from 7 museum shops: Galileo's Moon as a print, a Saturn V to build, a lit Moon globe and a first telescope for a child.
Van Gogh gifts from the museums that own the paintings17 Van Gogh gifts hand-picked from official museum shops: Irises from the Getty, The Bedroom from the Art Institute of Chicago, The Starry Night from MoMA, plus the books worth reading.