Gift Shops Are A Pleasant Step Back In Time
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Do you have any things you like that are kind of junky and tacky, but just perfect? That’s kind of how I feel about museum gift shops.
Some are nicer than others—MOMA in Manhattan has a fancy gift shop with some actually nice stuff, for example—but as a genre or category, they’re almost always full of overpriced, kitschy, cheaply made, often old-fashione…
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