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WOOLLY MAMMOTH CHICAGO

Woolly Mammoth Chicago is a curiosity cabinet of odd, amusing & eclectic items resurrected from the past. We specialize in vintage & antique taxidermy, anatomy items, medical stuffs, books, toys, skulls, and more...

WHO WE ARE/ WHAT WE’VE GOT

Woolly Mammoth Chicago is a brick and mortar retail store and curiosity cabinet of odd, amusing & eclectic items resurrected from the past. We specialize in vintage & antique taxidermy, anatomy items, medical stuffs, books, toys, skulls, bones, skeletons, military, funerary, art, charts, maps, tools, specimens, natural history, science, culture, industrial.

View fullsize Cool dead guy head alert! He’s old, heavy, plaster, “life”-size, and I have a hunch he might be an Odd Fellow. The back of him is flat, suggesting he was maybe meant to lay down, like in a ceremonial casket perhaps? The last photo i
View fullsize Parts of the whole. #beaucheneskull #explodedskull Great pic @katzevogel !!
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View fullsize Big thanks to my new friend Ari over at Vocalo for putting together an excellent piece about Woolly Mammoth! Y’all can check it out here: https://vocalo.org/chi-sounds-like-adam-rust-woolly-mammoth/ @vocalo #vocalo
View fullsize I said what I said. #fightme
View fullsize BONE PHILLIP-The Fleshless Goat #goat #blackphillipthegoat #goatskeleton #articulatedskeleton #pitbull
View fullsize TOTALITY! We (Skye) booked a campsite just southwest of Indianapolis in early January, it was the last one available (I guess the stars all aligned). What an amazing event! #totality #solareclipse nice shots @adkohl!! #endtimes
View fullsize Skye and Kelsey are ready to rock at the @odditiesfleamarket in the west loop this weekend! Tickets are still available, get down here!
View fullsize Belle Guinness was a prolific maniac, who murdered 14-50 people in Chicagoland between 1884 and 1908. Most of her victims were men she lured to her La Porte, IN farm through personal ads. However, she slaughtered children, babies, and women as well.
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View fullsize Once I year we close the store to drink beer in the garden with some dead animals, while wearing a rabbit mask. #todaystheday #seeyalltomorrow #happyeaster
View fullsize Madam Phil foresees a treat… #goodboy #bluesteel #fortune #sitstay
View fullsize She was very sweet, but this is what happened when she told me she was from Wyoming. (This happened a while ago, but still I think about it often) #truestory #facepalm
View fullsize BTW, I moonlight with UBER STORK. #sidehustle
View fullsize The most difficult part of restoring this 1940’s Trippensee planetarium wasn’t figuring out how to make the missing parts and get all to coalesce. The biggest challenge was to not sing or hum Metallica’s Sanitarium (Welcome Home), b
View fullsize Ram-en Noodles, for rams on a budget. #heyo #rimshot #illbehereallweek
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View fullsize This is crazy: Man’s Country was Chicago’s oldest operating gay bathhouse (1973-2017), and was located right around the corner from Woolly. Right after its closure, we had worked a deal to go in and remove all the glory holes before demol
View fullsize Yeah, so, I found a script for a random episode of Growing Pains! So last night, I poured some whiskey, and followed along (the episode rental cost $2 on VUDU). I got to say, it was way more interesting than I expected! My script was the first revisi

Give us a call at 773.989.3294 

Store Hours

We are open everyday, closed most US federal holidays. We will post any other closings on our social media feed.

Monday-Sunday 12-5

Woolly Mammoth Antiques & Oddities is a curiosity cabinet of odd, amusing & eclectic items resurrected from the past. We specialize in vintage & antique taxidermy, anatomy items, medical stuffs, books, toys, skulls, bones, skeletons, military, funerary, art, charts, maps, tools, specimens, natural history, science, culture, industrial.

Store Hours:
Monday-Sunday 12-5

1513 W. Foster Ave. Chicago, IL 60640

Give us a call at 773.989.3294 

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