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The Painted Wraith Curiosity Shoppe
Bloomington, IL
A Bloomington curiosity shop where antique medical tools, vintage funeral pieces, taxidermy, skulls, bones, gothic antiques, handmade work, and original art fill a small space that also anchors major oddities markets.
The Painted Wraith blends funeral history, medical antiques, natural-history oddities and contemporary handmade art inside a Bloomington shop operated by artist-collectors.
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Why it belongs
Medical-antique shop, funeral-history cabinet, taxidermy dealer, skull-and-bone shop, gothic antique store, art gallery, handmade market, and oddities-event organizer.
The store's collision of death-care history, natural specimens and living artists gives it more range than a conventional oddities boutique.
The Painted Wraith Curiosity Shoppe is a small Bloomington store run by husband-and-wife artists with a longstanding interest in the strange and macabre. Its shelves and walls mix antique medical tools, vintage funeral material, taxidermy, skulls and bones with original work by local and national artists, handmade objects and gothic antiques. The owners also organize larger oddities and art markets, connecting the compact shop to a much larger creative community.
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What you will find
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Known for
- Antique medical tools
- Funeral objects
- Taxidermy
- Skulls and bones
- Gothic antiques
- Local art
- Handmade work
- Oddities markets
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