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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.

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View fullsize Loose Pickles brought me a Perrier and a single potato. #potato
View fullsize I seem to find a copy of this cool old book every few years….if I remember right, I guess Eddie found a copy at a garage sale back in the day, and decided right then and there that was going to be the title of his next album…or somethin
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View fullsize Chill Phil and the homies. #thecrew #pibble #taxidermy #pitbull #peccary #javelina #sunbath
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View fullsize I was chatting with a lady in the shop yesterday and she told me that her grandmother used to use a Ouija board as her kitchen cutting board! Lol!…tell me you’re a non-believer without telling me you’re a non-believer… #ouij
View fullsize It just occurred to me that the term “dead meat” is an oxymoron, or at least redundant…right? Was this obvious to everyone else? Am I stupid? #deadmeat #biology #dissected #dissect #rat #anatomy #oxymoron #redundancy #amistupid
View fullsize Did you know that there’s a bunch of Cold War era missile defense sites around Chicagoland?! We found the C-44 Nike 2B site buried in the woods at Wolf Lake. The buildings are gone, but you can still see where the site was. There’s a monu
View fullsize The Beauty and the Beast #queenofthejungle #kingofthejungle #beutyandthebeast #smooches #roarsandkisses
View fullsize Special Agent Fox Mulder and Skully …with all this Enigma and X-Files talk, I wound up watching the episode The Enigma was in this weekend, it’s titled “Humbug”. It was really good, and I had no memory of it! Jim Rose is also
View fullsize The Enigma popped by yesterday!…I first saw The Enigma when I was in high school- he opened for Nine Inch Nails, when he was performing with the Jim Rose Circus…who’d of thought he’d saunter into Woolly Mammoth a million yea
View fullsize My boy Loose Pickles just brought me a half a bottle of lemonade, 3 pieces of black liquorice, and a torn open bag of tiny bruised apples-which he described as “forgotten” at the bus stop….so, if you stop in today, lunch is on me!
View fullsize I found this guy crawling in my armpit when I was getting dressed this morning…please tell me this isn’t a bedbug?! #bedbugs #armpit #raid
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View fullsize When I was riding in the car as a kid, and we passed a cemetery, I would hold my breath until we passed the cemetery and could only breathe again when we reached a white house, or else (I believed) I would die…I mean I wasn’t wrong, I&rs
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View fullsize PHANTOM SKULL! Phantom skulls are real human skulls encased in lucite. They are used to calibrate X-ray machines….I don’t think I’m ready to let this guy go. #phantomskull #skull #xray #heavymetal
View fullsize I gave my mole friend a ride to the mole proctologist because his butt hurt. That place smelled like molasses. #moleasses #molasses #fatalbuttpain #proctology #butthurt #isthisthingon
View fullsize “🎶…A - tisket, a tasket, a severed raccoon head in an armadillo basket…🎶” I finally got each one of my vintage armadillo baskets their very own severed raccoon head! #goalachieved #ellafitzgerald #armadillo #taxidermy #r

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. We encourage face coverings. We thank you for your cooperation.

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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