Common questions

What is Art Gift Shop?

An index of what 27 art museum shops sell, in one searchable place. It lists 22,686 products and links each one to the museum’s own store. Nothing is sold here.

Why compare museum gift shops?

They carry a lot of the same stock and do not charge the same for it. 599 products here are sold by more than one museum, collapsed onto a single page showing every price.

Does buying still support the museum?

Yes. You check out on the museum’s own site, so the purchase supports them exactly as a direct visit would, and you pay the same either way. Links to 26 of the 27 shops are ordinary links that earn us nothing. The Met Store is the exception: we are in its affiliate programme, so it pays us a commission out of its own margin when you buy through us. On books we also show what booksellers charge for the same ISBN, and some of those rows are affiliate links too.

Do the shops ship?

All 27 sell online and ship. Shipping, returns and member discounts are the museum’s own, and are shown on their site.

How current are the prices?

Collected from each shop directly and refreshed monthly, so treat them as a guide. The seller’s own page is the authority, which is where every link goes.