□ Seattle Convention Center: 705 Pike St, Seattle □ Saturday, October 14th – Sunday, October 15th 'Bear Witness' exhibit opens at Minneapolis art gallery.Oddities Museum admission is an additional $5 in advance, $7 at the door and free for kids 5 and younger. Tickets: Expo admission is $10 in advance, $15 at the door and free for kids 12 and younger. Where: Minneapolis Convention Center, Hall E, 1301 Second Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55404. “It really is open to everyone to come.” The Oddities & Curiosities Expo “We really try to like have something weird for everyone,” Cozzaglio said. “our vendors try to have items that are you know, $5 … Or you can come and spend $5,000 on taxidermy and antiques and stuff.” There is also a wide range of what to buy at the expo. But at this point, you can't actually confirm that…and because we can't, then I don't want to be a part of spreading something that's not ethically and responsibly sourced,” Cozzaglio said.Īll taxidermy sold is sourced sustainably through “vet clinics, farms, sanctuaries, road kill, foraging, antique/vintage auctions and more.” I would happily have true, ethically and responsibly sourced human remains that came from a medical school. About 30 percent of vendors are local to the area. This way not every vendor is selling the same thing. “I do that as the owner because I find it's really important to have a wide selection of people of different types of oddities,” she said. I actually had to turn off the applications within 24 hours of announcing them, because we received so many.”Ĭozzaglio and her husband choose vendors based on who they feel fits the show best. “This past year, coming into 2023, we received the most applications we ever have. It varies per venue, but 150 to 200 vendors are chosen to exhibit per city. The exhibitor applications open on Halloween for the following year of venues. The side performances are part of the general admission tickets, so there is no extra fee to watch them. So it's definitely like, going for that circus old-school sideshow vibe to it,” Cozzaglio said. Like swallowing swords, walking on glass, doing the human pin cushion routine, and all kinds of stuff like that. “And throughout the day, we have performers on stage doing classic sideshow stunts. Minnesota will have rabbits this year, which can be adorned in a way people can bring home taxidermied jackalopes or regular rabbits. The expo also hosts a taxidermy class limited to 45 seats per venue seats are already sold out for the Minneapolis stop. It is described as “a collection of taxidermied pets, the remains of carnival animals (and patrons),” and “terrifying beasts, like a Real Mermaid, a Six-Foot Man-Eating Chicken and genetically engineered monsters.”Ĭozzaglio said people can think of it as a “Ripley’s Believe It or Not! style type of museum.” The tickets to see the museum exhibit can be purchased before the expo or at the door. This year the Oddities Museum is hosting the “Cryptic Collection of a Mad Clown” exhibit. “They really got into hosting this museum with us because they're just huge personal collectors … it's just a huge passion of theirs to collect true oddities and true antiques,” Cozagglio said. Rainy Day Revival, an oddities store in Atlanta, hosts an exclusive museum exhibit that travels with the expo. “We try to provide a circusy-style vibe to it.” See the circus-like attractions People are welcome to come dressed up for the expo in gothic dress or cosplay: “We definitely love it when people come dressed up,” said Cozzaglio. On May 20, the Oddities & Curiosities Expo will be at the Minneapolis Convention Center. The expo will visit 30 cities across the U.S. They also had a “ton of people online telling them to come here,” so they scheduled the expo in Minneapolis for the first time in 2019. Paul area when they began thinking about where else to host the expo. The founders had friends in the Minneapolis-St. “It hit this niche market that I don't think anyone knew we needed.
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