Holiday Shopping

The Alvin Museum Gift Shop is a great place to do your holiday shopping. You are certain to find some thing of interest to everyone on your list plus you will be helping the museum. The gift shop offers a nice selection of AMS memorabilia plus a variety of items from local/area people, novelty items, and a good selection of books including some for children.

The Gift Shop is open Thursday, Friday and first Saturday of the month from 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. thru December 18. Then closes till January 7, 2010.

New Items in Gift Shop

Hey! Look! New items at the Alvin Museum Gift Shop. We have hand-turned wood and deer antler pens; two new landscape paintings from the Lanier Studio; wooden game puzzles and birdhouses plus color photo postcards. Come see these new items plus all the other great items for sale including museum society memorabilia.

Alvin Museum Gift Shop is located in the Alvin Historical Museum at 300 West Sealy. We are open on Thursdays, Fridays and the first Saturday of the month from 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Texas Gulf Coast Sea Shells

Did you know that Texas has a State shell? Well, we do. It's common name is "Lightning Whelk." For you serious "shell folks" its scientific name is "busycon perversum pulleyi." The Alvin Museum Gift Shop has added Texas seashells as part of its inventory. Some of the smaller Whelk shells are available along with packets of common shells found on the Texas coast.

The Gift Shop has many other local, county and Texas items of interest for sale. Come visit us. The Gift Shop is inside the Alvin Historical Museum located at 300 W. Sealy, and opened on Thursdays, Fridays, and first Saturday of the month from 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. There is no charge to visit the gift shop. The admission fee for the museum is $3.00.

New Books in the Gift Shop

The Museum Gift Shop offers a variety of items for sale including historical memorabilia, artworks, and gift items. Most popular is the selection of books by local and area writers and books about Brazoria County and Texas. Dr. Bill Crider has provided more copies of his Sheriff Dan Rhodes mysteries including Red, White & Blue. Also, one copy of We'll Always Have Murder, a Humphrey Bogart mystery. New to the gift shop is a book by Cathy Nelson Dodson, an Alvin High alumni, Miss Cornett's Courtship. Cathy used a collection of loveletters her great grandfather wrote as the backdrop for this love story.

There are 2 copies of Ida Blanchette's limited and out of print Babe on the Bayou. There were only 1000 copies of Ms. Blanchette's book printed in 1979. It has become a collectible book and very difficult to find copies.

Located in the Alvin Historical Museum, the Alvin Museum Gift Shop is open Thursdays, Fridays, and the first Saturday of each month from 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. There is a charge to tour the museum, but no charge to visit the gift shop.

Inside the Alvin Museum Gift Shop

Local Artists

In the photo above are Bob and Fairy Lanier, husband and wife artists. Bob won Best of Show and First Place at the 2007 Brazoria County Fair with his winter train scene. Fairy is well-known for her landscapes, especially Texas bluebonnets. Works by the couple are on display and available for sale in the Alvin Museum Gift Shop.



Mary Ann Shry, gift shop volunteer, is shown wearing and displaying custom jewelry made by local artist, Tish Barber. Come see Tish's one of a kind creations available at the Alvin Museum Gift Shop located in the Alvin Historical Museum at 300 W. Sealy, Alvin, Texas. The museum and gift shop are open on Thursdays, Fridays, and the first Saturday of each month from 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Ghosts at the Museum

The Alvin Museum Gift Shop offers a variety of gift items and museum society memorabilia. Newest books include Ghosts Along the Brazos by Catherine Munson Foster and A Narrative History of Brazoria County by James A. Creighton. Both of these books are difficult to find. Our newest items are some woven rugs by Donna Rae Harris. We also have books, paintings, jewelry, stationery items all crafted by local residents as well as crosses, pendants, and souvenir items.

The Alvin Museum Gift Shop is located at the Alvin Historical Museum, 300 W. Sealy. It is open on Thursdays, Fridays, and the first Saturday of the month from 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Plan a visit soon. You'll be glad you did!