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Kingston Museum has an attractive gift shop where a wide range of gifts, cards, souvenirs and local history books may be purchased by visitors, with some selected items also available to purchase online. Many of the products for sale are unique to the Museum gift shop, focusing on the history of Kingston upon Thames, and featuring images from the Museum collections and designs by local artists.

Gifts include a delightful collection of slipware pottery handmade exclusively for the museum by local potter, Margaret Haslam, featuring a decorative interpretation of the Kingston Three Fishes emblem on a range of mugs, jugs, plates and bowls. Margaret can be commissioned to personalise a dish or other item for a special occasion or person: please enquire in the shop.

The Museum also sells a range of Kingston souvenirs including tea towels, key rings, lapel pins and coasters, plus a large selection of postcards and greetings cards featuring local images from the Museum collections. A wide selection of Kingston local history titles are available on our book department, with an emphasis on the life and work of Eadweard Muybridge , the internationally significant Kingston-born pioneer photographer. Muybridge’s work on the moving image also inspires a range of lenticular cards, flick books, stationery and optical and animation toys.

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 5006.

Museum Online Shop

Kingston Museum's has an online shop through which you can purchase a wide range of local history books including titles on famous Kingston residents of the past, Eadweard Muybridge and Nipper the HMV dog. The online shop also offers a small selection of gifts and souvenirs which represent just part of the wider collection of merchandise available to personal callers to the museum shop. 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 5006.

Ordering Individual Photographs

We hold thousands of 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