Ye Olde Curiosity Shop

at 1001 Alaskan Way, Pier 54, Seattle , 98104 United States

1. Gift Shop

A fun, educational and entertaining gift shop and museum. Home of the weird, freaky, interesting and curious.

Description

Home of the weird, freaky, interesting and curious, Ye Olde Curiosity Shop is a museum and gift store. We have been in business since 1899, so we have collected quite the eclectic mix of treasures. We have interesting items for sale like jewelry made with real insects, butterflies in frames, or recyclable wallets. Our gift selection includes Seattle's own Glass Eye Studio's hand-blown ornaments and paperweights, Northwest Native American hand carved totem poles and masks. We also have fair trade gifts from Africa and Asia. Our collection of oddities and curiosities ranges from genuine mummies and shrunken heads (tsantsa), to two-headed farm animals, to a four legged hen. Our miniatures includes fleas in dresses, paintings on the heads of pins, and the Lord's Prayer written on a grain of rice.

How To Get to Ye Olde Curiosity Shop

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General Info

Ye Olde Curiosity Shop has moved a number times but has always been on the central waterfront. Since 1988 it has been located on Pier 54 next to Ivar's Acres of Clams restaurant. Most of the museum collection has stayed with the shop through its various moves. Some of the more unusual things are: Sylvester, a perfectly preserved mummy, Siamese twin calves, one of the largest collections of shrunken human heads outside of Equador, the Lord's prayer engraved on a grain of rice, Ripley's name on a single human hair, the largest coin ever minted (6 1/2 lbs.!), fleas in dresses, a 67 lb. snail, oil paintings on pin heads, a six-foot -wide crab, a Chinese two-man gun, a three-tusk walrus skull, a chain carved from a match stick, a nine-foot blow gun, a woven cedar bark hat worn by Chief Sealth (namesake of Seattle), old-time player piano, a Chinese beheading sword, a "mermaid", a real (working) merry-go-round organ, whale and walrus oosiks, and many, many more things.

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Summary

Ye Olde Curiosity Shop is Seattle based place and this enity listed in Gift Shop category. Located at 1001 Alaskan Way, Pier 54 WA 98104. Contact phone number of Ye Olde Curiosity Shop: (206) 682-5844