I’m gathering ideas for stocking stuffers from museums and attractions. If you live in a city, you can nip into the museum gift shop without admission; if you’re visiting, and you’re like me, you want to pick up things that will tuck in your suitcase — and survive TSA and airline luggage handlers.
Just right for the fizzy time of year, here’s a short list of petite gift ideas:
- Atlanta’s World of Coca-Cola has a retro wall-mount Coca-Cola bottle opener ($7.99). It’s inevitable: Beverages that require an opener always show up at a barbecue. Mount near outdoor grill.
- New York’s Museum of Modern Art’s giant Japanese ice ball tray ($16.00). Mixologists claim one big ice ball is superior to lots of lesser cubes when a beverage goes on-the-rocks. Who am I to argue? And I bought two; one for me, one to give.
- Seattle Space Needle snowglobe wine stopper is so cute ($10).
- Whiskey stones from San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art are a startling and memorable alternative to ice cubes ($60). No danger of diluting any beverage with these chillers.
