Exhibit Good Taste by Giving a Museum Piece as a Christmas Present : Gifts: Even someone who has everything might like a Gutenberg printing press or a finger-warming ceramic book bottle.

Museum shops can provide a one-stop solution for some of your holiday gift needs. And their offerings can be pleasantly offbeat: If you’re looking for a diminutive Gutenberg printing press for a super-literate nephew, or green chocolate frogs for a sweet-toothed aesthete, read on.

Usually, sales from a museum’s gift shop help support the not-for-profit institution and its work.

Here are a few items from the huge selection of offerings. These are specifically related to the collections or mission of the institution selling them:

The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, sells a miniature Gutenberg printing press--no guarantee it will enable you to produce a copy of one of their precious Gutenberg Bibles. It is a working model, though, just over 6 inches high, handmade in Austria. Supply is limited and it has a price tag of $250.

If you’re already over budget, you might prefer to settle for a little $8 jar of the Morgan’s leather dressing--it’s what they use on their own rare-books’ bindings.

A candy maker in San Jose, inspired by the work of artist David Gilhooly, has created the Gilhooly Chocolate Pizza, topped with hot-pink chocolate swirls, green mint-flavored frogs, candy confetti and Oreo look-alikes made of chocolate. One will cost you about $45, from the gift shop at the San Jose Museum of Art. That restorative thought will surely send you back to your shopping with renewed vigor.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, offers a wooden box with a luminous reverse-glass painted top. The lid is decorated with detail from “Brig Antelope in Boston Harbor (1863),” an oil painting in the museum’s collection. It’s priced at $39.

Here’s a suggestion from the American Museum of Natural History, New York, which has a range of replicas of pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico, Costa Rica and Venezuela priced from $10 to $125. The choice includes a reproduction of the museum’s own terra-cotta “smiling head” sculpture from central Veracruz at $105.

The Smithsonian Institution in Washington took inspiration for a children’s musical snow toy from a card in the Americana collection of the National Museum of American History. Inside the 5 1/2-inch glass globe, in swirling snow, children play with a giant snowball, to the tune of “Frosty the Snowman.” The price is $25.

A moon-face table clock with a decorative dial and blue-and-white case is an interpretation of an item from the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library design collections. The original was a tall case clock made in Delaware in the late 1700s; this 4 1/2-inch-high adaptation comes with quartz movement and costs $26.

Reproductions offered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York include an endearing 3 3/4-inch spotted ceramic rabbit ornament, originally made in England by a Staffordshire pottery in the mid-19th Century. This is produced in cooperation with the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vt., and is priced at $12.

The Metropolitan’s quaint ceramic book bottle, which used to be filled with hot water to warm readers’ cold fingers, was made in 18th-Century London. The Metropolitan suggests that its $12 copy, in blue, white and yellow, could hold liquor--or flowers.

A Guinevere pin is patterned after an image of King Arthur’s queen on a vintage tile in the collection of the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, N.Y., where the pin is offered for sale in “antique gold” for $25.

The Pinscreen is described as an interactive electronic sculpture, a hand-held version of one of the most popular exhibits at San Francisco’s Exploratorium science museum. It preserves three-dimensional images of anything it touches, they explain, and it’s $12.50 for the small size, $24.50 for the large.

How about something larky to recall city subways and buses, from the New York Transit Museum? They sell running shorts with the No. 7 line’s map down the legs at $20, and a stuffed armadillo that’s said to look suspiciously like a tunnel rat, an obvious bargain at $15. Refrigerator magnets with old subway slogans--”Don’t Sit Where You Can’t Fit!”--would make provocative stocking stuffers, at $3 each.

Finally, a 1993 special: The Art Institute of Chicago is celebrating its 100th anniversary, and to commemorate it they commissioned a silk scarf. The design incorporating images of the museum and its 1893 origins comes in a limited edition and costs $75.