>Does anyone have any experience with operating museum gift shops/retail
>stores in a regular retail setting (not just on the museum premises)?  If
>so, we'd love to hear about it.  Please post to this newsgroup or send
>email directly to us at the addresses below.
>
>Thanks, in advance
>
>Greg and Deborah Larson
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Try the Biltmore Estate. I seem to recall that in addition to several gift
shops on the premises, they also had one in a sort of "gate house" right in
Asheville, NC.
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