COColorado field entry
The Oddemporium
Denver, CO
A South Broadway shop where poison bottles, medical skeletons, insect shadowboxes, wet specimens, typewriters, horror memorabilia, carnival relics, vintage clothing, jewelry, doll parts, and garden oddities pile together.
The Oddemporium stretches the antique-store idea into a cabinet of curiosities, mixing medical and pharmaceutical artifacts with insects, horror and carnival objects, vintage fashion, jewelry, old technology, unusual art, wet specimens, and stranger finds.
Field notes
Why it belongs
Antique shop, medical cabinet, vintage-clothing store, insect collection, horror shop, carnival archive, jewelry counter, art market, and outdoor curiosity garden.
The inventory crosses enough unrelated collecting worlds that calling it simply an antique store misses the point.
The Oddemporium has occupied Denver's South Broadway antique ecosystem for decades, but its shelves are considerably stranger than a conventional vintage shop. Antique pharmaceutical and poison bottles, medical skeletons, insects, wet specimens, typewriters, horror and carnival collectibles, doll parts, jewelry, vintage clothing, art, ephemera, and larger garden objects create a retail environment closer to a sprawling curiosity cabinet than a tidy antiques showroom.
Store contents
What you will find
Directory categories
Known for
- Poison and pharmaceutical bottles
- Medical skeletons
- Insects
- Wet specimens
- Carnival collectibles
- Horror memorabilia
- Vintage clothing
- Typewriters
- Doll parts
- Outdoor oddities