Hey, not my fault they got so much cool stuff!
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Me: How do I hold all these dragons?
What do y'all usually buy in a museum gift shop? Personally, I've never really paid attention to them and mostly avoided them
The only thing I've bought is books. But usually I don't care for the gift shop, it reminds me of carnival games, it's cool stuff, sometimes, but everything is too expensive.
O yeah I bought the d day clicker thing from a Normandy museum. They were two euros and a historically accurate gadget.
Sometimes I see something that I like enough to check the price, which almost always causes me to promptly put the item down as my eyes bulge in shock.
I'm not clear what you mean by a d day clicker thing? A historically accurate gadget for two euros does sound like a good souvenir though.
What I meant was one of these:
Those were cheap, mass produced clickers or 'crickets' that were supposed to help to identify friend from foe. If you heard activity nearby you gave two clicks,and if a response wasn't given, you'd assume a foe (the call sign 'flash' and response 'thunder' was also used as they are shibboleth , hard for Germans to pronounce).
Ofc it isn't an original one, but absolutely historically correct, in that they were cheap and mass produced. It's proved to be a conversation starter and thus absolutely worth it's price.
Books usually, my wife buys tote bags and gift cards, sometimes a poster. I don't usually buy anything though, but when I do it's almost always a book (or several) in my case.
Oh, I forgot about books in my comment. Though I don't really buy books because I'm too cheap for that — I just make note of the ones that I would buy and see if they're available at my local library (or pirate them, but I prefer the library)
Sometimes there are wonderful trinkets to be found. Some with very interesting artwork
I don't usually buy anything, but I enjoy having a wander round. I just like the novelty, and whilst the museum exhibits also provide novelty, the gift shop offers a different kind of novelty.
Occasionally I buy souvenirs for friends. I have one friend who collects fridge magnets, so I often find myself passively on the lookout for one that they'd like. I've also found that sending postcards to friends is a nice way to stay in contact with them (I often find myself too overwhelmed by life to stay in contact more meaningfully, so postcards are how I remind them that I have not forgotten that they exist).
The only item I can remember buying for myself from a museum was a gorgeous tea towel from the People's History Museum in Manchester, UK. It had a print of an old worker's rights poster, similar in style to this one from the women's suffrage movement. It's far too nice to actually use as a teatowel, but I was a student at the time, so I hung it up on my wall like a mini tapestry.
Ooh, very nice idea with the postcards, because that's something I'm also struggling with. I don't have social media and then it's really hard to stay in touch with people who aren't living close anymore.
But how do you send them? Do you ask for people's addresses if and when they move? It's probably not as weird as I make it in my head with my anxi
Ive never seen anything but tacky and overpriced crap in a gift shop. I love museums, but avoid gift shops.
The mud I play sometimes, my character is a museum curator and you better believe coming up with and designing the museum gift shop is a delight. Always trying to think of new things to stock in there, just lately my brain is mush with writing.
That does sound really fun! I hope you have lots of snow globes I love them
Snow globes are actually a collectible in game so I can't make my own!
Buuut I could ask the admin if we could get one for the museum! They're pretty accommodating!