We produce books and gift items for the finest museums, to be bought by art and aficionados and museum visitors
BAI publishes art books, develops cultural merchandising and runs a variety of museum shops and pop-up stores. The company, based in Kontich (Belgium), has a whole range of services to offer when it comes to staging museum and cultural events. Whether you’re looking for a publisher for a museum catalogue or a producer for your own merchandising, BAI is the contact that you need.
BAI, winner of the Museum Product Award 2018 with the product line ‘Instinct’
In partnership with the MAS, the MASshop was the proud winner of the Museum Product Award in 2018, its third year. The public vote together with the professional jury and Minister Sven Gatz selected the product range for the Instinct exhibition as the strongest of the nine entries. As the winner, the MAS was able to take part in the competition held in March 2019 for the Best Product Award presented by the Association for Cultural Enterprises, giving a presentation at their conference in Brighton.

BAI, Finalist of the FILAF Award 2019
with the book Art sans pareil (Unrivalled Art)
The exhibition catalogue Art sans pareil, objets merveilleux du Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale (Unrivalled Art. Spellbinding Artefacts at the Royal Museum for Central Africa), an RMCA and BAI Publishers publication, was nominated in June for the FILAF Award 2019. An independent, academic jury chose the best books published in 2018 from a selection of 500 art books. Art sans pareil finished among the three finalists in this competition.
