ILIllinois field entry
Woolly Mammoth Antiques & Oddities
Chicago, IL
A Chicago curiosity cabinet where vintage taxidermy, skulls, skeletons, medical tools, funerary pieces, toys, books, maps, military objects, art, specimens, and industrial relics pile into one storefront.
Woolly Mammoth Antiques & Oddities mixes natural history, medicine, death, science, antiques, toys, books and art inside a Foster Avenue shop built around objects that normal stores have no category for.
Field notes
Why it belongs
Taxidermy shop, medical-history cabinet, antique store, natural-history collection, funerary dealer, bookstore, toy shop, art store, military-curiosity counter, and industrial salvage cabinet.
Nearly every aisle changes the answer to the question of what kind of store this is.
Woolly Mammoth Antiques & Oddities is a Chicago brick-and-mortar curiosity cabinet devoted to things rescued from stranger corners of the past. Vintage taxidermy and preserved specimens share space with skulls and skeletons, old anatomy and medical pieces, funerary objects, books, toys, military material, maps, charts, artwork, tools and industrial relics. The inventory changes continuously, making the store feel as much like an evolving private collection as a conventional antiques business.
Store contents
What you will find
Directory categories
Known for
- Taxidermy
- Skulls and bones
- Skeletons
- Medical and anatomy material
- Funerary objects
- Natural-history specimens
- Antique books
- Maps and charts
- Strange toys
- Industrial objects