More than 2,100 museum stores across all 50 states, including Colorado, are participating in Museum Store Sunday on December 1, 2024. The worldwide event offers shoppers discounts, special events, gifts with purchase and unique, locally made items for everyone on their holiday lists. Proceeds from museum store purchases support artists, small businesses and cultural institutions in shoppers’ communities.
Denver Art Museum gift shop
Highly curated, location-specific and mission-driven items will be available to shoppers online and in person, including jewelry, clothing, children’s toys and products, home decor, books and gourmet food.
“Purchasing locally made gifts at museum stores circulates money within shoppers’ communities,” says Kate Schureman, board president of the Museum Store Association. “In turn, artists, businesses and museums in their neighborhoods have more funds to reinvest into their communities and foster local economic growth.”
Many museum stores will have special discounts. For example, at the Denver Art Museum customers will receive 10% off their total purchase and a free gift with purchase.
Participating museum stores in the Denver area include:
- Denver Art Museum
- Clyfford Still Museum
- Children’s Museum of Denver at Marsico Campus
- Four Mile Historic Park
- Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art
- Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum
- Denver Museum of Nature & Science
- Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
- Molly Brown House Museum
- Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls & Toys
- Aurora History Museum
- Dinosaur Ridge
- Foothills Art Center
- Mines Museum of Earth Science
- Golden History Museum
- WOW! Children’s Museum
- CU Museum of Natural History
- Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
- Butterfly Pavilion
- Museum of Boulder
Shopping at museum stores is a lot of fun and you usually save money. Think about it, museum shops don’t have to pay rent or utilities and often have volunteers staffing the store. So the markup on products is less than at typical retailers.
At all museum stores, entry is FREE. You only pay admission if you want to access the exhibition space itself.
Shoppers may find participating museum stores near them here.