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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Harney & Sons Botanical Blend Earl Grey Tea
27.95 USD
The Met has partnered with Harney & Sons on this unique, art-inspired tin containing loose-leaf Earl Grey tea and displaying a detail from Strawberry Thief (design registered 1883, printed 1917-23) by William Morris (British, 1834-1896). The inspiration for this kaleidoscopic cotton textile in the Museum's holdings was derived from the designer's country home, Kelmscott Manor, where a community of thieving thrushes would pluck the strawberries from his garden. Today, Strawberry Thief is one of Morris's most celebrated patterns.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Hokusai: Great Wave Puzzle
32.9 USD
Gifts for art lovers, inspired by The Met collection. Assemble one of the most iconic images in Japanese art with our 500-piece puzzle. Katsushika Hokusai's (Japanese, 1760-1849) famous woodblock print Under the Great Wave off Kanagawa,also known as The Great Wave (ca. 1830-32) belongs to a series of various views of Mount Fuji in The Met collection. In addition to its sheer graphic beauty, this Edo-period image fascinates with its contrast between the powerfully surging wave and the distant mountain.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Inside the Museum Puzzle
32.9 USD
Gifts for art lovers, inspired by The Met collection. The wonders of The Met unfold as you put together this remarkably detailed puzzle. The Museum's galleries and the treasures within are laid out in a delightful illustration that forms a schematic map, providing a fun challenge for all ages. Once assembled, the puzzle becomes a game, as young art lovers pinpoint objects listed around the border, scoring points along the way. Watch the vast scope of The Met collection emerge, piece by piece. Click
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Van Gogh: Wheat Field with Cypresses Oversize Puzzle
37.9 USD
Gifts for art lovers, inspired by The Met collection. One thousand pieces form one magnificent landscape in our puzzle featuring Vincent van Gogh's (Dutch, 1853-1890)Wheat Field with Cypresses(1889). During his yearlong stay at an asylum in the South of France, Van Gogh decided to paint the lofty cypress trees that towered over the countryside. The artist considered this lively composition, which displays a rich impasto, one of his "best" summer landscape paintings. Today, it's one of the most beloved paintings in The Met collection. Click
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Monopoly: The Met Edition
57.95 USD
Board Game, Collector's Monopoly It's fun. It's inspiring. It features 5,000 years of art. It's Monopoly: The Met Edition. This new version of the classic board game features familiar components-22 colored properties, distinctively shaped game tokens, Chance and Community Chest cards-with only-at-The Met twists. Famous pieces from The Met's 17 curatorial departments infuse every aspect of the game. As you amass properties, you'll be able to develop mini museums of your own, by adding new galleries, followed by wings-all paid for with money featuring portraits across cultures. Leaf through the included booklet to learn more about the artworks that bring the game to life. Or just break out the board and read up as you go. Building a real-estate empire has never been as artful.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Met Cloisters Unicorn Puzzle
32.9 USD
Gifts for art lovers, inspired by The Met collection. Piece by piece, this puzzle comes together to celebrate a medieval marvel. The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (1495-1505) is an iconic French and South Netherlandish textile belonging to the famous Unicorn Tapestries at The Met Cloisters. The beloved work depicts a unicorn resting in a garden enclosure beneath a pomegranate tree, enveloped by a millefleurs backdrop of richly symbolic plants. Click
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Van Gogh: Bouquets Double-Sided Puzzle
37.9 USD
Gifts for art lovers, inspired by The Met collection. Assemble two Metbouquetsby Vincentvan Gogh(Dutch, 1853-1890) with this double-sided puzzle. Painted in 1888,Oleandersportrays an arrangement of what Van Goghconsidered life-affirming flowers for the way they bloom "inexhaustibly." They're symbolically presented in a majolica jug next to a copy of Emile Zola's novel La joie de vivre. The reverse side of this puzzle features Irises(1890), one of four radiant springbouquetspainted just before the artist's departure from the asylum in Saint-Rémy. In this still life,Van Goghsought to achieve a "harmonious and soft" effect by placing the "violet" flowers against a "pink background." Owing to his use of fugitive red pigments, however, these colors have since faded with time. Read our blog post
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Degas: Impressions Double-Sided Puzzle
37.9 USD
An art puzzle inspired by The Met collection. Assemble two vibrant paintings by Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917) with this double-sided 1,000-piece puzzle.A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (1865) portrays a lady-probably the wife of Degas's childhood friend Paul Valpinçon-lost in thought beside a bursting bouquet. The unusual composition exemplifies the artist's endeavor to capture his subjects in fleeting, slice-of-life moments. The reverse side of the puzzle features one of Degas's favorite subjects.The Dance Class(1874) depicts ballerinas and their mothers waiting as a dancer executes an attitude for her examination by the ballet master Jules Perrot. Both artworks are now in The Met's European Paintings collection. Click
Juratoys US Corp Magnetic World Map Puzzle
57.94 USD
Here's a world of fun for kids of many ages. They can learn about geography and global travel as they arrange the countries of the world on the magnetic board. The wooden map puzzle features 92 pieces and is decorated with lively, colorful illustrations.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Dehn: Spring in Central Park Puzzle
32.9 USD
Gifts for art lovers, inspired by The Met collection. Enjoy the splendors of spring in New York as you recreate a delightful watercolor by Adolf Dehn (American, 1895-1968). This bucolic scene in The Met collection is one of several park views that Dehn recorded at different seasons during the years he lived in New York City. In addition to the world-famous park, the artist captured scenes from Harlem nightclubs, burlesque theaters, high society, and other lively subjects.
Beginagain Begin Again Toys Learning Box Wooden Puzzle Set
77.94 USD
This fun, four-in-one set comes with a colorful assortment of educational puzzles. With Animal Parade A-Z, Number Snail, Balance Boat Shapes and Colors, and Cat Family, little ones can learn the alphabet, numbers, shapes, colors, and animals with child-safe pieces stored in a handcrafted wooden tray. Click
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Louis C. Tiffany: Magnolias and Irises Oversize Puzzle
37.9 USD
Gifts for art lovers, inspired by The Met collection. Put together a Met masterwork by Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848-1933) and enjoy an art-inspired challenge. Once assembled, this 1,000-piece puzzle depicts the luminous Magnolias and Irises(ca. 1908) stained-glass window in The Met's American Wing, in which delicately rendered irises and magnolia blossoms frame a distant, winding river. This glowing window illustrates the Gilded Age artist's renowned innovations in the art of Favrile glass. A great gift idea, the puzzle offers hours of fun for the whole family. Click
Fat Brain Toys Tobbles Neo
37.9 USD
Just as artists use color, shape, balance, and texture to create, little ones can discover these concepts through a tower of bright, stackable shapes. The fun, weighted pieces nest or spin on a table, developing hand-eye coordination and spatial awareness in a form guaranteed to get some giggles.
Fat Brain Toys Squigz
40.9 USD
Bright and flexible, these fun pieces stick to each other and to lots of surfaces using the power of suction. They promote explorations of color, shape, balance, and design, as creations seem to defy gravity by hanging upside down or sideways. High-quality silicone rubber won't mark surfaces.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Monet: Bridge and Water Lilies Puzzle
32.9 USD
Gifts for art lovers, inspired by The Met collection. Piece by piece, a striking impression comes together as you re-create a masterpiece by Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). A passionate horticulturist, Monet worked on his picturesque water-lily garden at Giverny for years-and depicted it in beloved paintings like Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies (1899)in The Met collection. The evocative work is one of a dozen views of the wooden footbridge over the pond that the Impressionist painter created in the summer of 1899. Click
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Harney & Sons Tea Tin Set
45.95 USD
The Met has partnered with Harney & Sons on this unique, art-inspired set of three tins, each filled with 20 sachets of a delicious tea blend. The set includes Garden Therapy Green Herbal Tea, Hot Apple Spice Black Tea, and "Taste of British History" Tea Blend, which was specially created in honor of the reopening of The Met's renovated British Galleries in 2020.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Harney & Sons Still Life Chamomile
27.95 USD
The Met has partnered with Harney & Sons on this unique, art-inspired tin containing loose chamomile leaves and displaying a detail from Vincent van Gogh's (Dutch, 1853-1890) Irises (1890), a celebrated still life in The Met collection. Enjoy a peaceful moment courtesy of calming chamomile, evocative of Van Gogh's beloved bouquet in The Met collection. For this extraordinary composition, the artist sought to achieve a "harmonious and soft" effect by placing the "violet" flowers against a "pink background," though the red pigments he employed have since faded.