Museums are great, but if you’re anything like us, halfway through an exhibition you’re already wondering what goodies they’ll have on the museum shop… right? :)
How many times have you been in a foreign city, walking around and being a tourist, secretly wishing you could just skip the monuments and go straight to the stationery shops instead… but had no idea where the good ones were?
Well, fret no more! Tessa Sowry from All Things Stationery is solving this problem by compiling a map of the best stationery shops around the world… and she wants your input too!
Head over to her site to get your stationery fix – and if you know of any really good stationery shops in your area, let her know. I’m sure we’ll all appreciate it when we visit that place!
And now, it’s time to plan the next stationery shop crawl… have a nice weekend! :)
15 comments so far
great job!!!! :)
And NOTHING remotely close to me :-(
@lisad6791 maybe you (or someone else) will submit a nice one nearby! :)
Fantastic!! Thank you Postcrossing!
so nice of you :-)
I dont know any places nearby.
A little disappointed nothing in Japan is Tagged on here. Japan has amazing stationary store. a few big ones are Muji and Loft. Located through out the country. Awesome idea thought and yes stationary stores are always a must when in a new place.
I love museums shops. They have beautiful postcards...
@StarPixieK. LOL! I was just thinking the opposite, three of five in S.F. are Japanese shops, one called Muji. It's nice to see an art supply house listed. Come to The City! ;)
Why don't you query OpenStreetMap for stationery shops? The entries there might be outdated or erroneous, but still the data is much richer. Here's a query:
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/5wc
Zoom to your area of interest and click "Run" (top left). On too low zoom levels (showing too much area) the query might time-out.
By the way, OpenStreetMap is a free, open map of whole world. If you know a stationery shop, which is not on that map there, feel free to register as a contributor and add it there ;)
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zuVWztCm48_Q.kd7Zsdy3ULjY This is a map of all the known places to get postcards in Israel. The labels are in Hebrew, sorry about that ...
@jedrek_pelka: OSM is an awesome resource! But the goal of this particular map, I think, is to have a curated list of the really nice stationery shops.
I see sydney's store (city stationery pitt st/wc penfolds) as little more than an office stationery store...a bit like the chain officeworks. Whereas the chain Typo is more about personal stationery ...http://shop.cottonon.com/typoshop/
Great thing....
Sometime finding a good shop even in local place is difficult :)
India is a big country... and very difficult to find such shops... will surely try to locate and help you for Mumbai City.. Thank you
Well, I am a bit confused because the article starts about museum shops and then gives the stationery shops. I think that is something else and I have seen many great museumshops (like the Museon and Gemeentemuseum in The Hague) with a lot of different postcards, but no stationery.
In a place near mine, Rijswijk, there is an international paper biennale
http://www.museumrijswijk.nl/papierbiennale2014/
and when I was there this summer they also sold many nice papers etc. For the rest I am not so into stationery...
Please add the following card shop AND printer in the USA.
NOTEWORTHY
101 SOUTH HIGGINS AVENUE
MISSOULA MONTANA 59802