Travel Places Guide

If you’re like us, after taking in a stunning show of that daring new photographer or tramping through an exhaustive retrospective of a painter who redefined the medium, the first thing you do is head off to the museum shop to snatch up the exhibition’s accompanying effluvia. After all, how can one remember that fabulous curatorial conceit without a seductively glossy and satisfyingly weighty catalog filled to bursting with full color reproductions? While Berlin’s grand museums are still growing into the concept of “museum visitor as revenue raising opportunity,” there are now several spots where you can pick up the art books, postcards, clever knick-knacks, and branded tote bags that mark you as a connoisseur of cultural consumption. Here’s a short guide for a museum shopping spree that will exercise both your artistic sensibilities and your credit card.

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