The Met’s latest BAND-AID® Brand collaboration turns three canonical flower paintings into a retail object
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and BAND-AID® Brand have released a new 2026 assortment of art-themed adhesive bandages, extending a partnership that first drew attention in 2025. This year’s set features details from Claude Monet’s Water Lilies (1919), Vincent van Gogh’s Irises (1890), and Odilon Redon’s Bouquet of Flowers (ca. 1900–1905), bringing Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Symbolism into a format usually reserved for first aid.
The collection includes 50 printed fabric bandages in small, medium, and large sizes. They are packaged in a collectible tin decorated with a larger reproduction of van Gogh’s Irises, giving the product a presentation that feels closer to a keepsake than a standard drugstore item. The 2026 bandages are available exclusively at Target for $7.29.
The new release arrives alongside the return of the 2025 Hokusai collection, which quickly sold out in its first run and is now back at Target, Amazon, and CVS. That earlier assortment drew on works by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), including The Great Wave off Kanagawa. A second 2025 collection, based on a pattern by 19th-century Arts and Crafts textile designer William Morris, is no longer available.
Josh Romm, the Met’s head of global licensing and partnerships, said the new iteration “celebrates highlights from The Met collection” and connects artists across eras through “a shared fascination with the natural world.” He added that translating the works into bandages offers “a whole new way to appreciate and live with art every day.”
The collaboration reflects a broader museum retail trend: institutions are increasingly using licensing to extend the life of their collections beyond the gallery wall, while giving familiar images a new, highly portable audience.
