The extravagant, lauded and inimitable Menagerie Oddities Market™, whose credo is, “This Ain’t Yer Grannies Craft Fair™” will present the Fourth Annual Nevada City Oddities Show, an extraordinary one-day Art Bazaar at the historic Miners Foundry Cultural Center, Sunday, November 2, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Calling all seekers of the strange and unusual. Be amazed by curious creatures and incomparable things in art, culture, and entertainment. Witness the bizarre, mystifying, and unique as the most stunning venue in Northern California’s Mother Lode, the Miners Foundry Cultural Center, again hosts the most immersive, innovative, full sensory, multi-interdimensional, experiential, daring, interesting, magnificent and highly curated oddities and curiosities market west of the Mississippi. Previous 2022 through 2024 Nevada City Oddities Shows drew over 2,000 attendees throughout the day, so be prepared for a party of astonishing proportions with several thousand of your closest friends.
On display will be 50 artisans, creators, and purveyors of strange and unusual craftings, baubles, trinkets, ornaments, novelties, knickknacks, ephemera, elegant jewelry, clothing, accessories, medical and scientific specimens, antiques, photography, home decor, taxidermy, works of fine art, and other collectible curiosities created from components, parts, pieces, bugs, bones, items and elements hand-made, foraged and found. The Menagerie Oddities Market™ draws a merry band of nomadic and dedicated, awesomely awe-inspiring, anomalously aberrant, distinctively divergent as well as idiosyncratic and individualistic misfit artists from near and as far away as New York, South Carolina, Portland, and Los Angeles who regularly participate in the now, nearly 20 annual themed Oddities Shows and Festival events.
MUSIC, ENTERTAINMENT, TRICKS AND TREATS
DJ’s, music, fortune telling, sideshow performances, and delectable local food, and a full bar. Get tickets to the Taxidermy Mouse, Beetle Pinning and Madagascan Comet Moth Pinning Workshops before they sell out, because they always do.
Founded in 2019, the Menagerie Oddities Market™ is a Latina-owned business.
WHAT: Fourth Annual Nevada City Oddities Show
WHERE: Miners Foundry Cultural Center, 325 Spring Street, Nevada City
WHEN: Sunday, November 2 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
COST: $10.00+ with reentry. Other VIP Experiences and Workshops are available from $40 to $140; Under 10 years of age: FREE
