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 A TRUE (GHOST?) STORY! This happened last summer, and I swear I’ve thought of it everyday since. When we bought our house like 8 years ago, the previous owners told us there was a male ghost (of a benevolent nature) who lived there and seemed i
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View fullsize CLOSED TODAY! Take it from Phil, stay home, stay warm, and bundle up! See y’all tomorrow!
View fullsize Speaking of cold, “Fuzzy Face” lost his rear legs in a blizzard in 1970, and was fitted with a set of prosthetics. #brrr #windchill #prostetics #lamb
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View fullsize This type of weather makes me want to curl up with a good book. #culture
View fullsize Goatally awesome weekend cuz I scored these two baaaa-ad boys yesterday. P.S. -they love each other. #jacobssheep #goat
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View fullsize Y’all might remember our post from last July when we took the canoe to the sunken neighborhood in Fish Lake, WI, not too far from Madison (near my ole stomping grounds). Well, we went back on our skis over the weekend to check it out in the sno
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View fullsize HAPPY NEW EAR!
View fullsize Regular hours on New Year’s Eve (12-5)…then party time!…and closed New Year’s Day. Regular hours resume Friday-xoxo #partytime
View fullsize I had to stop flipping through this braille playboy cuz my fingers got stiff. #stilllittlefingers #braille #brailleplayboy #stifffingers
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View fullsize Hey. I’m here to at least 4pm today….maybe later if we’re busy. Come sit on my lap. I have candy.
View fullsize The perfect gift for your pimply nephew! #puberty
View fullsize …cuz they’re feet.
View fullsize Ghosts of Xmas’s Past: The year my uncle gave me a bunch of Playboy merch, and a couple years later when my gramma got me a dead tarantula. #itallmakessensenow #youseewhatimworkingwith
View fullsize ATTEMPTED MURDER! I found this old photo postcard of a woman feeding a clown/baby/guy with a murder bottle! A murder bottle is a late 19th/early 20th century type of nursing bottle that was difficult to clean, and therefore a breeding ground for dang

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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