Stand: Hall 3, Stand L30-M31 & M34
Museums & Galleries (M&G) aims to build on a strong 2025 with a design-led Spring Fair launch programme, showcasing some 120 products in gifts, homeware, stationery, and gift packaging
Museums & Galleries (M&G) set a terrific pace of product development in the latter half of 2025, with many launches, including The Fold card range (which proved a big hit with retailers), the brilliantly received fine bone china mugs collection, the new glasses cases collection, and extensions to existing homeware and gifts ranges.
The pace for 2026 shows no sign of slowing, with M&G launching around 120 gift, homeware, stationery, and gift packaging products for Spring Fair. A positive rainstorm of beautiful new products, you might say – and leading the shower is a range of stylish, super-light folding umbrellas.
Guaranteed to keep you looking gorgeous as well as dry, the launch range features six designs, including two from the V&A’s incomparable Art & Crafts collections: Leicester Wallpaper by William Morris, and Frog Tile by William De Morgan – both already major customer favourites.
Beloved British printmaker Angela Harding contributes a charming Puffins design; Hokusai’s The Great Wave from the British Museum appears in a specially designed repeat pattern; the wonderful designer Matthew Williamson’s glorious Peacock Ikat fights the rain with his signature saturated colour; and Emily Burningham’s quieter, more serene, and charming English Saxifrage completes the sixth umbrella.
The Fold collection of everyday cards has been significantly increased, with a Christmas collection added. M&G has extended the brand look to a new range of six A5 soft-touch cover journals, featuring the bold, contemporary, and function-focused aesthetic of artists such as Kristian Gallagher and Sophie Harding. The range also includes two Wellness journals, offering consumers the opportunity to track daily intentions and reflections.
Digging into the new releases, several trends emerge. M&G clearly responds to the themes of its main museum partners’ blockbuster exhibitions. The V&A’s current show, Marie Antoinette Style, is echoed in several new designs, including Rococo textile design work by Anna Maria Garthwaite: an 18th-century designer who licensed her work to Spitalfields silk weavers. These stunning designs appear across bookmarks, gift wraps, gift bags, gift tissue, and journals.
The Tate’s current Constable and Turner exhibition is reflected in a new Constable jigsaw and a Turner bookmark, as well as a pair of fine bone china mugs featuring masterpieces by the two classic English artists.
This year marks both the 50th anniversary of veteran textile designer Sarah Campbell’s career and her 80th birthday, celebrated with a retrospective exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London. Her work also features in the Women and Textiles exhibition at the William Morris Gallery.
M&G starts the celebrations with striking new branding for the designer across all her products, alongside new stationery featuring her bold, colourful artwork, including two lovely new journals.
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