Jun 29, 2014

Unexpected Finds at the Pérez Art Museum Gift ShopBy Stepanie DunnOceanDrive.com

Miami, FL – It’s not unusual to visit the Pérez Art Museum Miami and wish you could take the works of art from Ai Weiwei or Monika Sosnowska home. While that’s not an option—unless you’ve made your peace with ending up on several international “Most Wanted” lists—you can leave with armfuls of thoughtfully curated, always clever, and often tongue-in-cheek tokens from PAMM Shop, the thoroughly modern museum store located just to the right of the museum’s entrance.

At 1,800 square feet, the space is open and airy, filled with natural light from the floor-to-ceiling windows that offer a panoramic view of the museum’s dramatic hanging gardens and the Port of Miami beyond. However, your gaze will also be drawn inward—to sleek white tables topped with a treasure trove of eye candy that runs the gamut from esoteric art theory books to quirky, poseable Cubebots from David Weeks and 3-D mirrors by Adam Frank that lend the lucid illusion of clouds.

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