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Selected Items

Browse our display of high-quality gifts and books relating to domestic interiors, architecture, gardens, London and social history.

All of the items can be obtained by post from the shop. Please email jknott@geffrye-museum.org.uk or telephone 020 7739 9893 for further information on payment and postage.

Selected Gifts

Christmas cards and gifts

Santa Christmas card Goose Christmas card Elizabethan banquet Christmas card

A variety of cards, each with 5 cards to a pack. £3.50 each pack, Elizabethan banquet cards £5.00

Choosing the Chintz - related books

Household Gods by Deborah Cohen Dolls' Houses from the V&A Museum of Childhood by Halina Pasierbska The papered wall by Lesley Hoskins

Household Gods by Deborah Cohen £25.00, Dolls' Houses by Halina Pasierbska £30.00, and The Papered Wall edited by Lesley Hoskins £8.99

A postcard from Choosing the ChintzA postcard taken from Smart's furniture catalogue

Exhibition postcards 60p

Garden related items

Some gardening gifts that can be used throughout the year.

Soothing Herbs for gardeners Gardener's restoring hand cream Weary gardener's hand soap

Herbs £1.50, restorative hand cream £5.00 and soap £2.50

Wildflower seeds

Time to plant wildflowers for next Spring: 99p per packet

Household gifts

A selection of 4 bone china mugs, designed exclusively for the Geffrye Museum by Cressida Bell.

£8.00 each, or £28.00 for a set of 4

Cressida Bell mugs

Memorabilia gifts

Memorabilia replica packs - Victorian and 1950s £5.95 each

Victorian replica pack 1950s replica

Books

Selection of books on garden design and plant history

A Glossary of Garden History by Michael Symes.

£9.99 published by Shire Publications

Shop Merchandise

Selection of books on architecture

London Architecture by Marianne Butler.

£8.99 published by Metro Publications

Shop merchandise

Selection of books on local and social history

Hackney Memories by Alan Wilson.

£9.99 published by Sutton Publishing

Hackney Memories


Geffrye Museum Publications

Home and Garden: Paintings and Drawings of English middle-class urban domestic spaces 1914 to 2006 edited by David Dewing.

Hardback £30.00

home-and-garden-catalogue

Information on all Geffrye Museum Publications


'Herb Garden' wooden jig-saw puzzle

250 pieces, every one a different shape. Other designs available.

250 x 360mm £25.00


Gifts for younger visitors

London Children's map

London Children's Map £2.95 and Geffrye Colouring Book £2.50


Stationery items

Geffrye Museum pencils, pens, sharpeners and erasers.

Pencils 50p; pens 75p; sharpeners 50p and erasers 50p