The Evolution Store

This place is full of cool stuff! Skeletons, trinkets, hand carved skulls, freeze-dried creatures, and other collectibles/decorations for weird people and science enthusiasts. I'm both and I loved it.

Unique sick of meteorites, geodes, skulls, skeletons, and other natural history oddities. Friendly and helpful staff, funky vibe.

Perfect place to pick out gifts if you know people who have eccentric tastes and/or appreciate natural history, entomology etc.

This place is neato! I'm a meathead, with a sprinkle of goth. My friend Trilogy bought me a trilobite fossil from here as well as some other great oddities!

A truly unique store selling fossils, minerals, skeletons, rocks, gems, and other geology/paleontology related artifacts. I've never bought anything here, but regularly stop by to check out the interesting collection of items - it's almost like a museum with all the boring parts removed. It's definitely worth stopping for a browse or pick up a gift you can't find anywhere else.

A truly original shop: a real cabinet of curiosities!

I loved all the cool souvenirs that I could get to remind me of NYC. Great store.

Interesting and a bit odd. Reminds me of peter the great museum with embrios pickled in a jar. Priced are high... Ay least for my taste

This is a fantastically interesting place. Although I can't imagine buying any of their larger products (snake skeletons, model human skeleton, etc.) they do have a lot of happy knick-knacks available that make fine souvenirs. Overall, it's a lovely store to visit.

From reading reviews as well as gauging the reactions of the customers in the store, this is among the more polarizing shops around. Anyone who has done any kind of research or read a tourist guidebook is aware they sell human skeletons (completely legal and displayed tastefully) as well as taxidermied animals and butterflies. So if that kind of thing isn't your cup of tea, why go?

From my perspective this was utterly fascinating and unique. I view nature as something interesting and worthy of study and admiration. All their specimens are expertly worked on and displayed. Prices may seem high, but the amount of skill needed to fully disassemble a lobster (for example) as a natural history museum quality piece is really difficult to come by.

For those not interested in the museum quality pieces, there are plenty of fossils, geological specimens, books, and educational pieces. Gloriously strange objects like cross-sections of mineral encrusted water pipes, Fordite, meteorites, and the like. Some more basic 'museum giftshop' pieces as well, but it helps ensure people without hundreds of dollars to spend can find something of interest as well.

Absolutely amazing!

Such an original store. Go if you want an outside the box gift!

One of my favorite places to take people when they are in town in the area. Just an oddball shop, feels a little like a museum.

If you're a bioanthro nerd like me, this place is heaven! They have a lot of knick knacks and giftable items and bigger, drool worthy stuff upstairs. It's a perfect place to get birthday gifts for your science enthusiast friends.

Store with taxidermies and rare things. Very good. The employees are friendly

A very unique store allot of oddities in here. Be aware this place is stupid expensive. They were selling a lobster shell taken apart inside a glass case for somewhere around 3000$

A little bit spooky. This place does not need my review. Is a plce to go ones.
My daughter 6 years old love it.

Fun, fascinating, good atmosphere. Books would make it even better.

This place is INSANE! Never seen a store like it. If you are one of those people that likes to collect bones, skeleton models, eyeballs, corpses, animal furs, stuffed life size animals, etc...well, this is your place. It was just insane walking in there to see what the store was all about. I thought it was some sort of Gothic clothing store at first. It's always a fun stop to go by when in the area.

It's my 9-year-old son's favorite place. There are a lot of fossils, models of human organs and systems, skeletons, minerals and dried insects. Plenty of things that will be interesting not only for kids, but for their parents.

Really great shop with such an eclectic collection of odd and neat things from shark teeth to meteorites, it's a world of weird, fun and evolutionary enjoyment

Walked by the store and it caught our eye. It has a lot of neat stuff. I felt like a kid at a candy store and purchased a dinosaur fossil tooth!

This place is really cool. If you're visiting NYC and you are in the area (or if you live in the area), it's worth dropping in and looking around. Lots of unique gift ideas also.

My favorite store in town. Great selection of rocks and minerals.

always love to buy a nice rock or two. affordable hematite and copper spheres

A must stop shop. Lots of trinkets and interesting items to peruse. Skulls, skeletons, bones, taxidermy, crystals, etc... informative staff. Interesting gift finds. I could easily spend an hour just looking.

Neat collection of everything I never knew I always wanted.

This place is full of artifacts science and interesting stuff like a two headed caff and a dead rat in a jar.

An absolutely crazy shop. However, I ask myself the question of whether you can also introduce what you see there into Germany, because in my opinion some things are protected. But I like to be taught better.

Visiting from Texas. I am a collector of all things nature and biology, the weirder the better. I collect bones (and feathers and shells and fossils and vintage scientific illustrations etc. etc.) and this place is absolute heaven!!!

For lovers of unique and strange things, this place is the right place, you can find fossils, animal skulls or even meteorites. You have to meet him.

This place is super cool. So much awesome stuff to see and to buy.

fantastic for emergency holiday shopping (and you'll find something for yourself too!).

Amazing place filled with human skulls and ancient treasures. I would recommend an hour roaming around this beautiful collection of artifacts. Some affordable stuff too!

The place is very nice it has very interesting exhibitions and great items some are weird like the scorpion lollipop but it has pretty AMMAZING THINGS for you to see you have to see it for yourself

Bought a fruit bat. I know I over paid, but wanted the item anyway. Service was poor, check out girl didn't pay attention to me. This store is OVERPRICED in all items. Better to go on line and get same items for half price.

Totally would recommend to visit for fun and collectibles

Pretty remarkable collection of skeletons, taxidermy, preserved specimens, and related art. Creepy, sure, but this place is respectful; more about marveling at anatomy and nature than grossing people out. Very high quality rare stuff, so not surprisingly everything is either very small or very expensive.

The most curious shop I have ever been to! It feels like a museum because of all the cool stuff you can see (and buy of course)!

Quality merchandise at a range of price points. Fun to explore. Small but packed.

Very interesting this shop! They sell a lot of special things from skulls to minerals. I recommend entering, even just to give a peek.

Really interesting place to visit. Pricy but unique.

Very interesting. Many small objects for nature lovers :-) skulls, bones and reptiles in cans. Not to mention the amount of minerals (the meteorite fragments are fiction). To visit!

Price wise, its probably not the best. But if you are at all interested in animals & anatomy... what a fun place! Basically a well-curated museum.

A collection of the bizarre, the unusual, the fantastic, all for sale. Great for gifts for people of all ages, especially for the weirder people you know.

A unique shop in New York! An incredible collection inside the shop where it will hardly leave indifferent even the indifferent !!! Its values are very reasonable compared to the uniqueness of its products. It is a great opportunity to get unique souvenirs or even to offer unique gifts. If you are near the area, you should definitely visit it even if you do not want to buy anything. You will understand it also from the photos !!!

Fossils, crystals, dead creepy crawlers. Great if you're into the macabre, scientific or spiritual. Check out the "grow your own crystal" kit.

Super fun to check out. Found a small alligator head for $20. Greatest gift ever for an animal loving nephew. Staff were reasonable for a pretty busy store, I thought.

You can buy all the weird things here, from dinosaur fossils to Mars rocks!

Super cool store.
Unique objects if you like the natural sciences.
Even stuff like meteorite fragments, fossils.
Fun to look around and always a place to pick up an unusual unique gift for someone or Yourself!!

Bought a fish fossil. The smaller items are disproportionately cheaper. It's a fantastic place.

A spider eclectic store that sells gem stone, fossils, animal bones and skins, to actually human bones. Your out of town friends will be super impressed if u take them here as a stop in your nyc sight seeing. A must see store with lots of instagram photo opportunity.

Love this store I can spend hours inside it's small but it has the coolest things inside my kids love going inside even if wee just look around

Absolutely gorgeous selection of wares at affordable prices!

Very unique, lots of interesting items, prices set for the true collector

Almost spent a few hours in there constantly finding new things. If you love collecting dead things this is the place

I have a little collection forming from the great stuff I get from here.

If you are interested in ancient life, you can buy a lot of replicas.

Really cool skeletons and drawings. You won't find a store like this anywhere else in New York.

Curious store for those who like to make collections or some original gift. They range from meteorites to butterflies and stuffed insects. Amount of minerals and other curious things that will make you have a good time entertaining. Transferred from soho, in the current location they have a better exhibition of objects. More expensive than it might seem since they are valuable and sometimes unique objects

This place is still great however I feel like it was more interesting when it was down on prince street. Strictly a shop now not a cool place to check out-so I do respect the change