Staff Picks

Sculptural, yet functional! You can hang your rings on a snout or a tail! These charming critter ring holders are made exclusively for the Philadelphia Museum of Art by local artist Priscilla Dahl in her Downingtown studio.    ...

A beautiful way to hold your jewelry, these one-of-a-kind ring holders are handcrafted by Philadelphia ceramicist Peyton Flynn exclusively for the Philadelphia Museum of Art! These unique ring dishes are wheel thrown, with hand-painted glaze designs...

The happiest of colors guaranteed to brighten your mood are combined on this Heartmade scarf from Hellen van Berkel. This fabric is super soft and lightweight enough to wear year round. 39.5” wide x 78.75” long 90% wool, 10% silk  Eyelash...

Taking inspiration from the museum’s encyclopedic collection, local Philadelphia maker The Painted Lily has created small artworks on beautiful tumbled marble tiles . Whether hanging on your wall, decorating your desktop or bookshelf, or as a coaster for...

Taking inspiration from the museum’s encyclopedic collection, local Philadelphia maker The Painted Lily has created small artworks on beautiful tumbled marble tiles . Whether hanging on your wall, decorating your desktop or bookshelf, or as a coaster for...

Taking inspiration from the museum’s encyclopedic collection, local Philadelphia maker The Painted Lily has created small artworks on beautiful tumbled marble tiles . Whether hanging on your wall, decorating your desktop or bookshelf, or as a coaster for...

This wonderful set of skin tone crayons are made to reflect our world and honor the beautiful diversity that exists in it! When a child celebrates their own skin color and the skin colors around them, they develop confidence and empathy for the world...

Lauren Lester is a maker and jewelry designer behind While Odin Sleeps. With a background in set design, many things inspire Lauren’s work including but not limited to fashion, toy design, nature, drag, architecture, interior design, and catholic...

Are you creative?  Do you think the answer is no? It isn't! With over 200,000 Instagram followers, Danielle Krysa has helped a lot of people overcome the fear that they aren’t creative. In books like Creative Block and Your Inner Critic is a Big...

Selected by our Education Department, this delightful book is a colorful reminder of the many things that  visual art can be, become, and do. Whether it's drawing, weaving, making  pottery, or turning junk into something  unexpected and...

The Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard  Art Museums encompasses over 2,500 of the world’s rarest pigments. Museum director Edward Forbes started the collection at the turn of the  20th century, in order to...

Selah Jewelry Design of Philadelphia specializes in original designs and handmade jewelry. The creation of Mauricio Riaño, the name “Selah” translates as “a reflective pause in the creative process.” With 20 years of experience, Mauricio draws...

Wit, wisdom, and willfulness abound on page after page of this vibrant anthology. A great pick for mid-century architecture, design, and lifestyle fans. Includes a brilliant range of well-known women and those who certainly should be.  Discover...

Spin a top and create a piece of art! Spread out a large sheet of paper for this wooden spinning top that draws. Roll pencil quickly between your hands, then watch as the pencil twists, turns, and spins creating a spiral pattern on the page. A...

This owlet needs a sweater! Can your child help? Cross stitching is a super fun craft activity for kids. Help make sweaters & outfits for animal friends with your cross stitching skills. This wonderful craft kit comes with 100% wool yarn in two...

French artist Françoise Gilot, born in 1921, can look back on a long history. As a painter of the Nouvelle École de Paris after the war, her work hovers between abstraction and figuration, drawing as much on nature and everyday life as on...

The most comprehensive and best-illustrated history of watercolor painting ever published! As an artistic medium, watercolor is so widely practiced, and so  widely beloved, that it can be startling to reflect on its humble origins. For hundreds of...

Throughout history, artists and citizens have turned to protest art as a means of demonstrating social and political discontent. From the earliest broadsheets in the 1500s to engravings, photo-lithographs, prints, posters, murals, graffiti, and political...

Imagine life in Edo, Tokyo, from the 17th-19th century. In the early modern period there were many Ukiyo-e shops which sold woodblock prints  displaying then-current styles and fashions much like our fashion photography and magazines today. Each...

The Story of Art, one of the most famous and popular books on art  ever written, has been a world bestseller for over half a century.  Attracted by the simplicity and clarity of his writing, readers of all  ages and backgrounds have found...

Designed to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Mader Top Factory, this set includes some of the workshop's favorite designs: a turn-over top, two Rallyes, a thunderbolt, and a miniature top in a glass bottle. Mader tops are all handcrafted and...

Attention nature-lovers! Inspire "family time" out in nature with this beautifully presented collection of 6 different hand-crafted American bird calls! Discovered while on a buying trip abroad, this special set allows your family to learn to...

We love the whimsical patterns of these cotton bandanas featuring the artwork of Beth Snyder. Bandanas have a multitude of functions including neckerchiefs, face masks, cloth napkins or even bibs. 23" x 23" square 100% premium cotton Hand...

We are all privately haunted by a fear that we’re freakishly odd. But in fact, as this bag celebrates, no one is ever quite normal. The only people we can mistake for ordinary are those we don’t yet know very well. From close up, we are all gloriously...

A truly luxurious notebook to pen your deepest thoughts or sketch what inspires you. These colored marbled paper notebooks are handmade in Florence using the same traditional process that has been in place for 300 years. Each marbled notebook is as...

Buy the full library and save $20.00 (that's one pad free!). Create a library archive of your work.  Each pad comes with a protective sleeve and can be stored upright on a bookshelf.  The pads are color coded according to paper finish and...

A card-matching memory game in which players try to pair iconic cultural items.  This is a matching game showcasing iconic works of art, architecture, design, and literature. Each work represents a unique perspective or key insight into the question...

A set of cards which display beautiful photographs of life’s small pleasures. The accompanying text, on the reverse of each card, works with the image to create a gentle reminder of those small pleasures which we sometimes overlook.   Beauty in...

60 prompt cards designed to help you find compassion and empathy. In theory, we are all interested in being kind. In practice, a lot gets in the way: tiredness, anger, bitterness. But a lack of kindness lies at the heart of so much of what goes wrong at...

In moments of stress, there may be nothing better to soothe our spirits than to focus our thoughts on places we know can bring us calm: a beach, a woodland, a river, the stars, but also more domestic places — the company of friends, the pages of a good...

Handcrafted in Philadelphia by Peg and Awl, this is the perfect journal to hold your stories, musings and sketches.  Find deeper inspiration for your creativity with the quote from Vincent van Gogh on the cover that was made just for us. Inside...

Made just for us by Philadelphia makers Peg and Awl, this wonderful folio pouch fits an iPad, sketchbook and other larger necessities. Use as a clutch or toss in your bag for a little more organization!  And even better we sourced...

Philadelphia makers Peg and Awl created this pouch that is great for pencils, pens, cords and other necessities. Use as a clutch or toss in your bag for a little more organization!   And even better we sourced vintage Sunbrella...

The Chalk Pad will quickly replace your many reminders scribbled on scraps of paper that constantly end up lost. Inspired by an old schoolhouse slate, it is great for grocery lists, sketches, messages and plans. Children and the young at heart can spill...

This set is perfect for the amateur to the seasoned artist for everyday use in drawing, drafting or sketching.  These professional quality drawing pencils are crafted with the highest quality materials. Extra-refined, high density graphite encased...

Delight your family and friends when you create beautiful, unique artwork to mail.  The tiles in this book are filled with a variety of Art Nouveau designs inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and flowers. 20 cards,...

Delight your family and friends when you create beautiful, unique artwork to mail.  This postcard book is filled with delicate artist renderings of floral still life's dating from the 17th to 19th centuries.  20 cards, each with a different...

Magnify and brush up your work space with this whimsical magnifying glass! PUEBCO was born in Japan 2007 by the simple notion of creating things instinctively, using found and recycled materials, to curate renewed lifestyle items.  8.5" x 1...

Votes for Women 500 Piece Puzzle celebrates some of the many leaders and heroes of the Suffrage Movement. Celebrate these brave individuals who fought to give women and people of color the right to vote by building this beautifully illustrated circle of...

Get an easy introduction to working with watercolors with this versatile set of watercolor pencils. Color in an area with the pencil, then brush over it with water to create a watercolor effect. You can mix layers of colors and create different wash...

In 1923, the Bauhaus held an exhibition of its achievements which ran from August to the end of September. This included lectures from both Walter Gropius and Paul Klee, exhibitions of paintings by masters and pupils, and coursework and workshop products...

Worn any good books lately? A usable and wearable hand-stitched miniature book finished with reclaimed leather that is handcrafted by Philadelphia makers Peg and Awl.   Peg and Awl work and create in Philadelphia. Their work is made from olde...

This hand crafted, marbled pencil made in Germany, will be your most elegant drawing tool. On this extraordinary rotary pencil made of solid mountain maple, a marble is ornately applied in brown tones. The decorative art technique of marbling wood...

Our lives are filled with objects. Everyday things used in everyday settings, they are our constant companions. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even affection. They should be...

An artful take on making faces! Fifty-two images of everyday and unique objects are the perfect springboards for creating hilarious, outrageous, one-of-a-kind faces. Kids will delight in adding eyes, noses, mouths, ears, hair, and more from six sticker...

Meet Richie handmade by UK Designer Donna Wilson. Richie likes 80s aerobics and dislikes porridge. Richie is our mane man. This little lion has a soft knitted body, crowned with a thick, felted hair-do. Each of Donna Wilson's playful creatures is given a...

The perfect gift for any young art enthusiast, our vibrant Frida Kahlo doll is sure to be a source of feminine artistic inspiration! Knitted by hand, this charming doll is a great way to introduce small children to the story of resilience and creativity...

This little kit is as adorable as it is handy for a mobile artist or anyone who loves color! This set includes 12 colored pencils, an eraser, and a custom-sized pencil sharpener in a slim case.   12 mini colored wood pencils Includes...

"Our Philadelphia, as is all our history, is made of these moments:  photographs and stories. And in our effort to find and delineate these  moments we also recognized that we approached a sense of place. Circling  ever closer to a shared...

We've long been drawn to the organic quality of Sarah Richardson’s jewelry. A favorite of our museum patrons since early 2018, her designs are inspired by nature and botanicals. Using traditional wax carving techniques, each piece is hand carved, then...

Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, Yayoi Kusama, Artemisia Gentileschi, Louise Bourgeois. If you aren’t already familiar with these names, then now is your time to learn and spread the word. Or, since you are probably already a fan like we are, then it is...

Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, Yayoi Kusama, Artemisia Gentileschi, Louise Bourgeois. If you aren’t already familiar with these names, then now is your time to learn and spread the word. Or, since you are probably already a fan like we are, then it is...

The Four Elements—Earth, Air, Fire, and Water—are represented in this oversized and colorful wooden puzzle set with a cave, a rainbow, flames, and a wave. The shapes of these unique wooden building blocks are more organic than traditional geometric...

This exquisite set of learning blocks comes with 100 rainbow-hued blocks of varying sizes in a natural wooden frame. Perfect for building magical castles, beautiful cities, and landscapes. By stacking and sorting the blocks of varying heights,...

Weighty and well-balanced, the Sketch Up Brass Clutch Lead Holder will become your favorite sketching tool.  Made from solid brass with a raw finish that will darken and develop a unique patina over time gives it an antique, vintage feel. Perfect...

Whether signing for your first home or writing to the one you love, the Kaweco Brass Sport will mark the moment as yours!  Made from solid brass with a raw finish that will darken and develop a unique patina over time gives it an antique, vintage...

Made from recycled paper, rainbow pencils let you create wondrous paper rainbows when you sharpen them.  Maybe you will even find a pot of gold!  Comes packaged as a set of 5. Graphite Standard HB (#2 USA) Made from recycled paper Each...

Create more expressive and tonal drawings with this innovative water soluble graphite.  Behaving much like a watercolor block, ArtGraf's graphite can be used by wetting a brush and loading it with graphite, then painting in beautiful, shimmering...

The Blackwing 42 is a tribute to Jackie Robinson and those who pursue their passions regardless of obstacles in their way.  He signed a contract with the Kansas City Monarchs baseball club to pursue his passion for athletics.  A few years...

"Butterflies are free..." so goes the song but this 1000 piece puzzle will challenge you to catch them.  Designed with vintage illustrations from the Cavallini archives.  1000 Pieces Paper, cardstock 22 x 28 inches when completed Each...

By Anne Monahan West Chester, PA's own Horace Pippin was arguably the most successful African American artist of his day. Pippin (1888–1946) taught himself to paint in the 1930s and quickly  earned international renown for depictions of World War I,...

The Modern Artists set includes artistic representations of Salvador Dalí, Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, and Vincent Van Gogh. Hand-chiseled from Urapán wood on an electric lathe, these classic wooden peg dolls are finished with USA-made non-toxic...

Hand-embroidered on felt using the “cannetille” technique. Macon & Lesquoy’s embroidered jewelry draws its inspiration from the high precision and quality of military insignias. The brooches are hand-made in a workshop in Pakistan, where the...

Baggu and the Philadelphia Museum of Art have teamed up to create this limited edition canvas duck tote inspired by Duchamp's Fountain.  Hand screened in Philadelphia by Print Natural using eco-friendly inks, the tote is a limited edition of 50, and...

Most of us haven't owned a nice box of colored pencils since we were children.  Yet no adult life should be without one, because having a range of colors at our fingertips provides a route to a wide array of moods and inspirations. This box knows...

Celebrate Philadelphia with this whimsically illustrated deck of Tarot cards, with 78 full-color illustrations featuring all things Philly. Local artist James Boyle was originally commissioned to illustrate a story about tarot cards for a magazine but...

Please note: this item is not eligible for discounts and promotions. Blackwing and the Philadelphia Museum of Art have teamed up to create this limited edition set of 12 golden pencils inspired by Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ sculpture of Diana which...

Everyone loves a good rainbow, which is why we know you will love these full spectrum playing cards. They have a uniform black and white pattern on the back, but on the front you get a splash of bright color in multiple hues. It doesn’t matter what cards...