London museum turns gift shop into supermarket selling artist-designed products


By AGENCY

Touching artwork is strictly forbidden in most museums, let alone buying it and taking it home. But the Design Museum in London wants visitors to do precisely that.

It has transformed its gift shop to create what it describes as "the world's first artist-designed supermarket" as a way of getting around coronavirus lockdown rules.

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RM 12.33/month

RM 9.87/month

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Design Museum , London , Arts , Supermarket , Gift shop , Pandemic

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