Fill your boots with taxidermy, funeral collectibles, skulls, bones and more at this weekend’s Oddities & Curiosities Expo <\/p>\n
Anyone with a flair for the macabre would do well to make haste to the Vancouver Convention Centre this weekend.<\/p>\n
Running across both Saturday and Sunday, the Oddities & Curiosities Expo brings the world’s largest travelling oddities event to town, showcasing hand-selected vendors, dealers, artists and small businesses devoted to all things weird.<\/p>\n
Attendees will find attractions and items running the gamut of grim and grisly: taxidermy, preserved specimens, original artwork, horror\/Halloween inspired pieces, antiques, handcrafted oddities, quack medical devices, creepy clothing, odd jewelry, skulls, bones and\u00a0funeral collectibles.<\/p>\n
And for those with truly unique itches that need to be scratched, ticketed workshops will include a day-long taxidermy class, an insect pinning class and\u00a0a wet specimen preservation workshop.<\/p>\n
Those entomology and taxidermy classes lead participants through the particulars on mounting, preparing and grooming raccoons, scorpions and even octopuses. The ticketed workshops range in price between $210 and $457.<\/p>\n
Event organizers note that all animals in the taxidermy class and other parts of the show are sourced ethically and died of natural causes.<\/p>\n
The workshops will be hosted by The Sleeping Sirens taxidermy team, and built-in breaks for lunch and exploring the expo will be in the offing.<\/p>\n
Vancouver Oddities & Curiosities Expo 2026<\/p>\n
When: Oct. 10 and 11, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n
Where: Vancouver Convention Centre – 1055 Canada Place<\/p>\n