Banksy’s The Walled Off Hotel Gift Shop is now Open, September 2017
Banksy has expanded The Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem in September 2017 with the opening of its official gift shop, offering visitors a selection of artworks, objects and souvenirs created specifically for the hotel.
Banksy opened The Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem in March 2017, just metres from the West Bank barrier. His first major undertaking since Dismaland in 2015, the hotel brought art, politics, tourism and the realities of the separation wall into a single immersive setting. Read more about the opening of The Walled Off Hotel.
The Walled Off Hotel Gift Shop, Palestine. Image copyright Banksy.
The gift shop is situated towards the back of the hotel by the Museum entrance, and sells books and items created exclusively for the Walled Off by Banksy. All profits from sales go towards sustaining the hotel and social projects, with select items are available worldwide on mail order.
The Walled Off Hotel Gift Shop
Among the most distinctive releases is the Walled Off Hotel Box Set, combining a monochrome Banksy image with a small piece of concrete presented inside a simple frame.
Banksy, Walled Off Hotel Boxset, 2017. Digital print with concrete in original frame, 23 x 23 cm. Unsigned and unnumbered. Available via GraffitiStreet.
The gift shop also introduces the Souvenir Wall Sections, miniature interpretations of the separation wall decorated with familiar graffiti imagery and individually hand-painted by local craftspeople. The sculptures were produced in different sizes, meaning individual examples can vary in their painted details and character.
Banksy Walled Off Hotel Wall Section Hope (2017), Gift Shop. Available via Graffitistreet
Other objects included miniature reproductions of the hotel’s distinctive electronic key fobs, produced in resin.
Banksy, The Walled Off Hotel, Bethlehem, Gift Shop. Photo Credit Banksy
Another of the more unusual objects was the Crucifix Grappling Hook, described by the hotel with characteristic Banksy humour as a tactical support device constructed from high-tensile aluminium and sacred ornament.
Banksy, The Walled Off Hotel, Bethlehem, Gift Shop. Photo Credit Banksy.
More accessible souvenirs, including mugs, T-shirts and bags, were also made available through the hotel’s mail-order shop.
Banksy, The Walled Off Hotel, Bethlehem, Gift Shop. Photo Credit Banksy
Many of the images associated with The Walled Off Hotel draw upon Banksy’s wider visual history in Palestine. Explore the artworks, places and stories behind Banksy’s art in Palestine.
The Walled Off Hotel gift shop have since become a distinctive collecting category, including the Box Set and individually painted wall-section sculptures. Explore Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel collectables, their history and significance.
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