March 18, 2024
The sideshow is coming to town for a one-day-only event in April featuring a marketplace of curios and classes on butterfly pinning.
The World Oddities Expo arrives in Philadelphia on Saturday, April 27. The traveling festival, which bills itself as a "peculiar paradise where weird thrives," will take over the Pennsylvania Convention Center from noon to 8 p.m.
Visitors can shop for taxidermy, jewelry, home decor and macabre art pieces or get some fresh ink at the pop-up tattoo parlor run by Villain Arts. The expo also will offer live burlesque and musical entertainment, though the line-up of performers has not been announced. Recent acts have included sword swallowers and trapeze artists.
General admission starts at $20. For additional fees, guests can learn how to taxidermy a rat, pin and mount butterflies or create hair art that harkens back to the Victorian era.
Saturday, April 27
Noon to 8 p.m. | $20
Pennsylvania Convention Center
1101 Arch St.
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