2022 Museum Store Holiday Gift Guide

The holiday shopping season is in full swing, and we’re here to help with gift ideas! From kids, students, and teachers to art lovers, bookworms, and those who have everything, you're sure to find something unique at the Museum for everyone on your list.

Scroll down for a selection of Museum Staffs' favorite ideas!
All purchases are shipped through priority mail.

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Gift a Museum Membership

The Gift that Keeps Giving All Year-Round!

Special Holiday Offer: Purchase a Museum Membership and add on our signature, glass Spiro ornament and holiday card for the discounted price of $14, plus free shipping! To add the Spiro ornament, select the item option under Membership levels before checking out.

For the art lover on your list, a membership to the Museum is the perfect gift. They'll get a whole year of unlimited admission, invitations to all Museum programs and exhibition previews, discounts on ticketed special events, Museum Store discounts, access and discount at the Perspective Café and Rooftop Sculpture Terrace, plus more!

Great Art. Great Experiences. Great Gifts.
Memberships purchased in November or December are active through January 1, 2024.

GIFT A MEMBERSHIP

Stocking Stuffers

$1+ Asheville Art Museum gear

$5+ Museum Gift Card
Gift cards can be applied to the purchase of Museum admission and special exhibition tickets, Museum Membership, classes and workshops, and Museum Store merchandise.

$8+ Graphic socks

$18 Exclusive Asheville Art Museum Glass Ornament + Card

For the Kids

$6+ Art supplies, toys, and more

$8+ Children's books

$22 Cubebot

$26 Milo Cube Dog

For the College Student

$6+ You Are Beautiful mirror, pin, bumper sticker and more

$8+ Colorful notebooks, sketchbooks, and journals

$15+ Games

$25 Student Museum Membership

For the Artist or Teacher

$5+ Notecards, postcards, stationary and more

$9+ Art Supplies

$38 You Are Beautiful 2023 Desk Calendar

$42 Hand Crafted Wooden Artists

For the Humorous Art Lover

$13+ Cat artist pins

$21+ Punny animal artist cards and book

$15 Men To Avoid in Art and Life collection

$16 A Brief History of Art mug

$38 We Go to the Gallery tote bag

For the Lover of All Things Local

$18+ Locally made ornaments and menorahs

$ Handcrafted art

$ Local artisan jewelry

$50–$100 Individual, senior, or family/dual Museum Membership

For the Bookworm

$5+ Museum Gift Card
Let the recipient choose their own book from the Museum Store's selection!

$10+ Bookmarks

$10+ Books
Choose from a selection of nearly 200 beautiful books.

$28+ Tote bags

For the Activist

$2+ Love Collection

$15 Rosie Collection

$28+ Guerrilla Girls Collection

$28 Judy Chicago coasters

$32 Feminist tote bag

For the Person Who Has Everything

$20+ Puzzles

$40+ Scarves

$50+ Asheville Art Museum: An Introduction To The Collection

$ Asheville Art Museum Dancing Spiro Hoodie

Our Museum Staff's Favorite Holiday Gifts

Selection by Pam, executive director
Intro to the Collection Book

This stunning first major catalogue published by the Asheville Art Museum highlights and introduces the Museum’s Collection of American art from 1860 to the present. As an introduction, it acknowledges both the depth of the Collection as it currently stands and its continued growth.

Explore 296 pages featuring more than 220 images paired with scholarly interpretation and generously illustrated essays that provide context and food for further thought and understanding.

Selection by Tasha, membership and museum events manager
Guerrilla Girls Heat Changing Mug

Third Drawer Down in collaboration with the Guerrilla Girls presents the Gorilla Magic mug! Magic in that your hot beverage will expose a Guerrilla Girls artwork! A super fun way to support the feminist art avengers on their ongoing fight for equality.

Selection by Triniti, gallery assistant
Crystal Necklace By FernWorks
FernWorks is a one-woman studio creating delicate, dreamlike art and jewelry which blends hand painted scenes & real ethically sourced specimens into dimensional layers of polished resin.

Each piece is handmade in Asheville NC and inspired by the natural world.

Selection by Joanne, communications manager
Men To Avoid In Art And Life 2023 Wall Calendar

Through its unlikely pairing of classical artwork and meme-style captions, the Men to Avoid in Art and Life wall calendar highlights the universally female experience of having her area of expertise explained in great inaccurate detail by an overly confident mansplainer.

Selection by Neal, head gallery and digital media associate
Handcrafted Unlined Leather Sketchbook

This handmade notebook features a full-grain genuine leather cover and 192 acid-free unlined pages, making it the perfect drawing sketchbook for artists. Stitched with matching thread, which is visible on the spine.

Handmade in Asheville NC

Selection by Kyle, grants manager
Color Wheel Star Notecards

Perfect to pair with your holiday gifts! Each box contains 15 full size cards and 16 white envelopes. Card image on box lid.

Inside message: Season's Greetings

Selection by CJ, gallery assistant
You Are Beautiful Bumper Sticker

You Are Beautiful began in 2002 as a sticker that spreads a hopeful message through public art. Our goal? To be a positive force and transmit a simple idea: Everyone deserves to feel good with who they are.