LONDON — Individuals go to museums to see artistic endeavors in a single type or one other. And from the Victoria and Albert Museum right here to New Zealand’s nationwide museum in Wellington, it’s potential to stroll out with creations — with out setting off the alarms.

A number of museum retailers now supply wearable artwork, usually handmade by craftspeople, and generally matched to the theme of a present present, and even reproductions of items within the exhibition.

The V&A in London, for instance, has displayed a dangly necklace of recycled brass by the Nairobi-based Adele Dejak in a subtly lit vitrine as a part of its “Africa Style” exhibition, by way of April 16. And copies of the handcrafted collar, with its rows of textured cash, are on the market (240 kilos or $276) on-line and within the devoted reward store on the present’s entrance.

Sarah Sevier, the museum’s head of retail, mentioned jewellery had performed an vital position in its retailers, each on-line and on website.

“Each season we current round 30 jewellery designers from the U.Okay., Europe and additional afield, together with North and South America, Japan and India,” she wrote in an electronic mail. “We choose costume jewellery that isn’t extensively accessible elsewhere and attempt to present a variety of supplies and strategies over a large worth matrix.”

“The opposite agenda for us,” she mentioned in a later cellphone interview, “is responding to the inventive industries, what needs to be an inspiration to new designers. So we’re additionally seeking to symbolize new designers, new artists and new makers and to provide their very own alternative to say, ‘Oh, I’m on sale on the V&A.’”

Within the case of the “Africa Style” exhibition, which means providing items by modern makers from the continent, together with Ms. Dejak.

Amongst them are multicolored (£75) or goldtone (£160) sisal grass and embroidery thread necklaces handmade by the Rwandan model Inzuki, a type of wearable artwork that’s made utilizing the identical abilities employed in weaving conventional Rwandan baskets. And there’s a black and gold-color necklace (£65) constituted of recycled magazines and printed cloth from Mahatsara, an organization based mostly in France that works with artist cooperatives and nongovernmental organizations in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Eswatini, the nation previously often called Swaziland. (Some, however not all, jewellery associated to the “Africa Style” exhibition can also be accessible by way of the museum’s on-line store.)

Within the Jewellery Pavilion part of its essential reward store, the V&A additionally has a big choice of items made by jewelers from all over the world.

“Pricing in that assortment will begin at about £20 or £30 for perhaps a brooch or a pair of earrings and go as much as round £500,” Ms. Sevier mentioned. “We now have about 30 completely different jewellery designers and makers at anybody time they usually’re all giving barely completely different choices by way of the supplies they use.”

The pavilion “is double-sided so you’ll be able to browse jewellery all the way in which round, then go inside and browse once more,” Ms. Sevier mentioned. “If you’d like extra assist, a group member will open up the cupboard to mean you can strive it on. It’s a stunning purchasing expertise as a result of it takes you away from the busyness of the primary store.”

Objects seen within the pavilion just lately included a knitted-brass bangle (£225) by the Italian designer Milena Zu, who relies in Bali; “Hotlips” rings by the London-based Solange Azagury-Partridge (£215-£295); and a bracelet (£90) and ring (£70) from the gender-neutral assortment by Carré Y of Paris.

Themed collections additionally usually characteristic within the jewellery on the market on the British Museum.

Guests to “Hieroglyphs: Unlocking Historical Egypt,” by way of Feb. 19, exit by way of an Egyptian-themed reward store providing gadgets that play off the age of the pharaohs.

Amongst their creators is the Scottish jeweler Susan Plowman, whose items embody earrings manufactured from iridescent beetle wings and gold-plated silver (£50); a hoop of recycled silver (£750) with an enameled scarab beetle on prime and a hieroglyph symbolizing rebirth on the underside; and a necklace of gold-plated recycled silver with turquoise, carnelian and jasper beads (£1,500) that’s marketed as being impressed by a bit discovered within the sarcophagus of Neferuptah, the daughter of Amenemhat III.

Ms. Plowman mentioned by electronic mail that her gold-plated silver earrings within the form of a bee (£599) with an identical pendant necklace (£325) had been influenced by carved Egyptian earrings present in Tutankhamun’s tomb. (An data card tells exhibition guests that the Egyptians believed that the tears of the solar god Ra “reworked into honey bees once they touched the desert sand.”)

Different Egypt-related jewellery offered on website together with the exhibition features a handmade oval hieroglyph-stamped silver necklace (£75) and earrings (£60) from the English model Per SaRa (additionally accessible on-line) and a chunky lapis lazuli and gold-plated hematite necklace (£499) from the Actual Pearl Firm, whose co-founder Caroline Haelterman has a bachelor’s diploma in Egyptology from Ghent College in Belgium.

Not all main museums, nevertheless, tie a few of their reward store jewellery to particular exhibitions.

In Paris, Leila Arabi, the product supervisor at RMN, the corporate that shares the Louvre Museum retailers, mentioned by electronic mail that some items are impressed by gadgets within the museum’s in depth collections somewhat than being immediately associated to an exhibition.

One instance she cited was the gold-plated silver Parure Lydien, a multi-piece assortment made in France. It was impressed by a gold disc from a area in present-day Turkey that’s a part of the gathering within the museum’s Division of Oriental Antiquities (however is just not now on show).

The set, coming to the bodily and on-line retailers later this month as a part of their new-for-Christmas choices, contains gold-plated brass items: a big pendant (150 euros or $148), a smaller pendant (€75), a necklace (€75) and earrings (€240) — and others in sterling silver: a big pendant (€190), a small pendant (€95), a necklace (€65) and earrings (€280). Within the spring RMN additionally plans to supply the massive pendant in 18-karat gold (€1,320) for buy immediately from the Louvre retailers.

“This pendant of a really pure design,” Ms. Arabi mentioned, “one which should be older than Croesus, whose title nonetheless evokes treasures of gold and valuable stones. He was one of the crucial luxurious rulers of Lydia, a really historic kingdom of Asia Minor.”

Different museum retailers give attention to their international locations’ historical past and ethnic heritages when stocking the reward retailers.

The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington, for instance, focuses on modern Maori and Pacific-inspired items together with these carved from pounamu, a kind of jade generally often called greenstone. These embody earrings utilizing greenstone, recycled silver and gold plate (219.90 New Zealand {dollars} or $129) and a pendant (779 {dollars}) within the form of a fish hook, referred to as a hei matau, mentioned to represent prosperity, good well being and safety from evil. (Out there on website and thru the museum’s on-line store.)

Tania Tupu, the overall supervisor of the Te Papa store, mentioned by electronic mail that she tried to emphasise native Wellington designers and labored with artists to develop merchandise impressed by the museum’s displays.

“For greenstone jewellery and something Maori or Pacifica, our precedence is that we’re genuine, so we intention for conventional/modern Maori/Pacific designs by artists/companies that determine as Maori or Pacific,” she wrote. “Or if they’re non-Maori/Pacific, artists which might be influential throughout a Maori or Pacific neighborhood (tutor or enterprise proprietor who employs carvers and jewelers which might be Maori/Pacific).”

Supporting native artists is simply one of many advantages of shopping for jewellery from museum reward retailers, Ms. Sevier of the V&A mentioned.

“You’re just about assured to have the ability to discover one thing completely different,” she mentioned by phone. “We now have executed that choice course of for you. We now have labored with any variety of makers, artists and designers to carry that choice to you and also you received’t have the ability to discover that choice replicated wherever else.”

“The opposite factor is that we’re a museum and we’re inviting you right into a constructing that homes an unbelievable assortment of knickknack itself,” she mentioned. “You may go to the jewellery gallery free of charge after which take a bit of the museum go to away with you.”

And whenever you do, she mentioned, “you’ve given again to the museum whereas supporting the artists themselves.”