LONDON — Individuals go to museums to see artworks 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 doable to stroll out with creations — with out setting off the alarms.

Plenty of museum outlets now supply wearable artwork, typically 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, via 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 function in its outlets, each on-line and on web site.

“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 e-mail. “We choose costume jewellery that isn’t broadly accessible elsewhere and attempt to present a variety of supplies and methods over a large worth matrix.”

“The opposite agenda for us,” she mentioned in a later cellphone interview, “is responding to the artistic industries, what must be an inspiration to new designers. So we’re additionally trying to characterize 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 known as Swaziland. (Some, however not all, jewellery associated to the “Africa Style” exhibition can also be accessible via the museum’s on-line store.)

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

“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’ve got about 30 totally different jewellery designers and makers at anybody time and so they’re all giving barely totally 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. “In order for you extra assist, a workforce member will open up the cupboard to mean you can attempt it on. It’s a stunning buying expertise as a result of it takes you away from the busyness of the principle store.”

Objects seen within the pavilion not too long ago included a knitted-brass bangle (£225) by the Italian designer Milena Zu, who is predicated 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 typically characteristic within the jewellery on the market on the British Museum.

Guests to “Hieroglyphs: Unlocking Historic Egypt,” via Feb. 19, exit via 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 product of iridescent beetle wings and gold-plated silver (£50); a hoop of recycled silver (£750) with an enameled scarab beetle on high 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 chunk discovered within the sarcophagus of Neferuptah, the daughter of Amenemhat III.

Ms. Plowman mentioned by e-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 “remodeled into honey bees after they touched the desert sand.”)

Different Egypt-related jewellery bought on web site 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, nonetheless, 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 outlets, mentioned by e-mail that some items are impressed by gadgets within the museum’s intensive 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 isn’t now on show).

The set, coming to the bodily and on-line outlets later this month as a part of their new-for-Christmas choices, consists of 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 big pendant in 18-karat gold (€1,320) for buy immediately from the Louvre outlets.

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

Different museum outlets concentrate on their nations’ historical past and ethnic heritages when stocking the reward outlets.

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 known as 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, known as a hei matau, mentioned to represent prosperity, good well being and safety from evil. (Accessible on web site and thru the museum’s on-line store.)

Tania Tupu, the final supervisor of the Te Papa store, mentioned by e-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 are influential throughout a Maori or Pacific group (tutor or enterprise proprietor who employs carvers and jewelers which are Maori/Pacific).”

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

“You’re just about assured to have the ability to discover one thing totally different,” she mentioned by phone. “We’ve got accomplished that choice course of for you. We’ve got labored with any variety of makers, artists and designers to convey 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 jewellery itself,” she mentioned. “You may go to the jewellery gallery at no cost after which take a chunk of the museum go to away with you.”

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