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The Museum Shop offers a wide variety of merchandise reflecting the mission and programming of the MVM. You will find a large collection of books for adults and for children based on Martha’s Vineyard and its fascinating history. Our children's book collection relates directly to our programs and exhibits and includes age-appropriate books about whaling, lighthouses, Native Americans, and archaeology. To access the MVM’s complete list of available books by subject, please click on the link to our book list. (pdf)
We have a unique assortment of note-cards, prints and posters derived from our extensive collection. Items based on our collections are sold exclusively through the Museum Shop. The Shop also offers visitors a selection of Vineyard related gift and craft items, stuffed animals, jewelry, CD's and tapes by local artists, and more. We accept Visa and Master Card. MVM members receive a 10% discount. Massachusetts residents pay 5% tax.
All proceeds from Museum Shop sales help to support the museum and its programs. We are happy to accept on-line, phone, mail, or email orders year-round.
To order online, please click the following link. (paypal)
To place an order via email, click onto this link Museum Shop Order Form  . You can fill the form out and then email it directly to the MVM at
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The Museum Shop is located on the MVM’s Edgartown campus in the Pease House. The hours of operation correspond with the hours that the MVM is open to the public. Please consult our Hours & Info page. If you have any questions, please call us at: 508-627-4441, ext. 112. You can also contact the Shop via email at:
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Merchandise:
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- $20 | $4.95 |
$20 - $35 | $6.95 |
$35 - $70 | $8.95 |
$70 - $150 | $10.95 |
over $150 | $15.95 |
The History of Martha’s Vineyard: How We Got to Where We Are
This wonderful history, the first comprehensive history of the Island since Charles E. Banks wrote The History of Martha's Vineyard in 1900, begins with the glaciers and works its way through the Native American journey, the age of European exploration and settlement, maritime history, the development of the Island as a world class resort, and more. People, places and events-local and worldwide-are chronicled here.
 More Vineyard Voices - Words, Faces and Voices of Island People
The Martha's Vineyard Museum is pleased to announce the publication of More Vineyard Voices - Words, Faces and Voices of Island People. The much-anticipated volume of portraits of Island people and excerpts from oral history interviews conducted by Linsey Lee, curator of the MVM's Oral History Center, is a companion volume to Vineyard Voices (1998). Hardcover: $59.95 Softcover: $33.95
Allen Whiting: A Painter at Sixty
 A stunning hard-cover book that showcases a selection of works hand-chosen by the artist. Allen's own written commentary is accompanied by the words of Wolf Kahn, Bill McLane, C.K. Wolfson, and Lynne Whiting. Drawings and sketches dating back over 32 years,beautiful paintings of Martha's Vineyard,and picturesque oilsfrom his travel are presented in abook that will be a collector's piece for generations. Published by Vineyard Stories.$44.95
 Sea Struck
By William H. Bunting
Sea Struck is about the final decades of American square-rigged sail, as recorded in first-hand accounts of voyages made by three young men from Massachusetts. Frank Besse and Carleton Allen kept fascinating accounts while sailing as paying passengers aboard their ships. Rodman Swift's journal, kept in secret aboard the steel four-masted bark Astral, relates the reality of a prolonged and difficult voyage from Philadelphia to Japan and finally to San Francisco.
Sea Struck, Published by Tilbury House, 2004
Hardcover, 366 pages with b/w images - $30.00
Where Magic Wears a Red Hat; the Art of Stanley Murphy
 Across a career that spanned more than fifty years, Stanley Murphy painted Martha's Vineyard with the exacting eye of a seasoned craftsman and the magical soul of a poet: its fishermen and selectmen and farmers and tribal elders; its seas and stones and fields and flowers; its fishes and cows and dogs. This beautiful hard-cover book features 36 full color plates of Stan Murphy's Island portraits as well as a foreword by collector and friend of the artist, Robert Doran and an essay by author and professor Karal Ann Marling. Hardcover - $50.00.
Special Limited Edition - The first 100 books are stamped with the artist's own hand-made wooden stamp - $200 each while supplies last.
African Americans on Martha's Vineyard
A Special Edition of the Museum's quarterly publication The Dukes County Intelligencer, this journal includes four articles about the history of African Americans on the Island as well as photographs from the Museum's collection.
Walking Tour of Edgartown:
Arthur Railton has created a terrific guidebook to the historic town of Edgartown. This book offers the visitor a detailed map and commentary about the 19th century homes of ship captains and merchants.
The History of Martha's Vineyard, by Charles Banks
A pre-1900 history of the Island in three volumes, the third dedicated to the genealogy of early Island families, also sold separately.
Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language
Nora Groce tells the story of the Island's deaf community which existed well into the 20th century. Scholars and historians have referred to this complete study of the chapter of Vineyard life where both deaf and hearing individuals communicated using a sign language unique to the Island.
 Vineyard Voices
Words, Faces and Voices of Island People: A book by Linsey Lee, Curator of the Museum's Oral History Center. Vineyard Voices has excerpts from interviews with 75 Vineyarders plus full-page black and white photographs of each individual.
(Signed, embossed and numbered)
The Ghost of the Grasshopper
A historic novel by local maritime historian and artist Thomas Hale. The book includes original pencil sketches by the author and a pullout chart of the Grasshopper's journey.
 Country Editor
A biography of Henry Beetle Hough, conservationist and long-time editor of the Vineyard Gazette, by Phyllis Meras. The first biography of Henry Beetle Hough, nationally respected editor of the weekly Gazette, award-winning author, and dedicated conservationist, Country Editor focuses on Martha's Vineyard from 1925, when Hough and his wife received the Vineyard Gazette as a wedding present, to 1985. An Afterword recounts the Houghs' legacy in the continuing battle to protect the Island.
Walking Tour of Historic Edgartown
Rare old photographs, maps, facts and legends about the town’s oldest buildings. By Arthur Railton, published by MVM. $7.95.
New England Views: The Photography of Baldwin Coolidge (1845-1928)
189 duotone images selected from the plates of this noted Boston photographer. Coolidge took many pictures in Woods Hole, as well as Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, the Elizabeth Islands, and the New England Coast, including city and maritime views of Boston. Published with the cooperation of The Society for the Preservation of New England (SPNEA), New England Views won First Prize in the American Associaion of Museums; 1999 Design Competition and was chosen as one of the 50 Books/50 Covers in the annual design competition of the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 1999. Some of the photos from the book were included in the “Camera’s Coast” exhibit, featured at MVM in the summer of 2006.
Zeb: Celebrated Schooner Captain of Martha’s Vineyard
Polly Burrough’s account of Zeb Tilton, who with his famous schooner the Alice S. Wentworth experienced the heyday and closing of the great era of coastal schooner trading.
Surveying the Shore: Historic Maps of Coastal Massachusetts, 1600-1930
Cartographic historian Joseph G. Garver analyzes and illuminates ninety historic maps, connecting them with key developments in New England history and demonstrating how a community's maps reflect its view of the world.
CLICK HERE for a full list by subject of publications that are available from MVM, or contact us for information about such topics as Island life and history, Vineyard lighthouses, the Island's natural history, and the Vineyard's link to whaling and the maritime industry.
Scallop Shell Lights
These decorative lights are crafted here on the Vineyard with native bay scallop shells. These lights can be enjoyed throughout the year and especially during the holiday season.
 Amelia Watson Watercolor Notecards
These cards depict eight beautifully captured Island scenes painted by the artist Amelia Watson (c. 1890). The original watercolors are part of the Museum's collection. Eight cards with envelopes: $15.
Historic Photo Collection Notecards
12 images from our photo collection representing a variety of Vineyard scenes and occasions. Exclusive to MVM. Twelve cards with envelopes: $18.
 Fresnel Lens Notecards and Posters
Island photographer Alison Shaw has captured the beauty of the original 1854 Fresnel lens from the Gay Head lighthouse, which now sits on the Museum's campus.
Ten cards and envelopes: $15.
 Menemsha Pond c 1915
12 cards featuring a stunning view of Menemsha Pond, from a hand-colored print in the MVM collection. $15 with envelopes.
 Ray Ellis Lighthouse Prints
Signed, limited edition watercolors by Island artist, Ray Ellis: Proceeds help to maintain the East Chop, Gay Head and Edgartown lighthouses. See Lighthouse page for more information. Call to arrange for shipping.
$250 each;
Belt Buckles
Brass or silver belt buckles in the shape of Martha’s Vineyard inset with a design of a ship under full sail. Approx. 3# wide by 2# high. Brass, $35; Silver, $80. Made by Vineyard Buckles for MVM.
 “Art’s View” giclee print by Allen Whiting
Limited edition, signed and numbered. A view of Squibnocket Pond. $150 unframed.
Scented Colonial Soap Balls
Bayberry, Lemon and Lavender.
Price: $2.50 each
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