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Kingston Museum has a gift shop where a wide range of gifts, cards, souvenirs and local books may be purchased by visitors. Selected items are also available to purchase online.

Gifts include pottery made exclusively for the museum by local artist, Margaret Haslam.  Margaret can be commissioned to personalise a dish or other item for a special occasion or person--or your pet.  New items in the range are always being added.

The Museum also sells tea towels, cards, affordable jewellery, items for children and fancy stationery.  A range of Eadweard Muybridge products: books, T-shirts, tea towels, cards, notelets and flick books commemorates this internationally significant Kingston-born pioneer photographer.

The Museum Shop is a good port of call for publications and other items for school projects.  We also publish a series of themed fact sheets on local history topics.  These can be posted to you on receipt of payment and a stamped addresssed envelope (minimum size DL). The following fact sheets are available:

• Picton's Progress, the story of Cesar Picton from Senegal (50 pence)
• The Coronation Stone (20 pence)
• John Galsworthy in Coombe (50 pence)
• Medieval Undercroft and Bridge Remains in the basement of the John Lewis Store (50 pence)
• The Stained Glass Windows in Kingston Museum (50 pence)

New items are being added to the shop constantly and often link to our temporary exhibition themes so please visit to see our current products.  

Enquiries about the Museum Shop should be addressed to Sandra Murphy on Sandra.Murphy@rbk.kingston.gov.uk or telephone 020 8547 6465 or 6460.

Christmas Cards

Buy a Kingston Museum Christmas card this year.  We have a variety of designs from copies of charming Victorian lantern slides depicting Santa Claus to scenes of old Kingston.

Museum Online Shop

On Kingston Museum's online shop you can purchase books and selected souvenirs about the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Eadweard Muybridge (the pioneer photographer), and Nipper the HMV Dog, reputedly buried in Kingston.

Currently, the online shop includes a representative selection only of the range of gifts, souvenirs and publications available to personal callers to the museum shop.  However, we will be expanding the site from time to time to include additional items including more books, souvenirs and gifts.  Please contact us if you do not see what you want on the online shop and we will do our best to help.  

Enquiries about the online shop should be addressed to Sandra Murphy on Sandra.Murphy@rbk.kingston.gov.uk or telephone 020 8547 6465 or 6460.

Ordering Individual Photographs

We hold many thousand photographs of the local area, many dating from the 19th Century.  We also hold a considerable collection of images by Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), pioneer photrographer.  If you are unable to visit personally to make a selection, our staff will be pleased to help find images for you.  Once you have made a selection, you will need to complete and sign our order form and copyright declaration and return it by post with payment to:

Kingston Local History Room
North Kingston Centre
Richmond Road
Kingston upon Thames
KT2 5PE.

Email: local.history@rbk.kingston.gov.uk
Telephone. 020 8547 6738 or 6735  
Fax: 020 8547 6747