DEDelaware field entry
Oddporium
Wilmington, DE
An Arden shop that's half museum and half store, where taxidermy, medical instruments, preserved specimens, funerary objects, crystals, art, bones, and bizarre historical finds turn a 1911 building into Delaware's cabinet of curiosities.
Oddporium combines a retail oddities shop with the feel of a small independent museum, filling its Arden-area historic building with animal specimens, medical artifacts, art, funerary material, spiritual goods, collectibles, and other objects far outside normal retail categories.
Field notes
Why it belongs
Taxidermy shop, medical-history cabinet, natural-history museum, funerary collection, crystal-and-spiritual store, art shop, curiosity dealer, and educational attraction.
The owners treat the collection as something to explain and preserve as much as something to sell, which makes the visit feel closer to wandering an eccentric museum than browsing a conventional store.
Oddporium operates from a historic Marsh Road building in the Arden area north of Wilmington and describes a retail world devoted to things left of center. Current 2026 reporting confirms a shop where taxidermy, preserved animal oddities, antique medical equipment, art, collectibles, and unusual historical material share space with items for sale. The business's broader identity has also included funerary objects, bones, crystals, spiritual supplies, masks, jewelry and other curiosities. Owners Ken and Beth Schuler lean into the educational side of the collection, giving the store the atmosphere of an eccentric independent museum with a cash register.
Store contents
What you will find
Directory categories
Known for
- Taxidermy
- Preserved animal oddities
- Antique medical equipment
- Medical curiosities
- Historic objects
- Funerary material
- Crystals and spiritual goods
- Art
- Museum-like displays
- Saturday science programming
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