The Evolution Store Review

Good place to get unique gifts if you like stones, shells and other animal stuff (obviously not for someone who likes to see them alive). Even funny gifts, like flavored cricket snacks.

Wildly fascinating selection of very-odd and ends-of-the-Earth kinds of things. Worth popping in.

Amazing stuff to look at very expensive not very good customer service

Very cool place. A lot of interesting stuff from skeletons to rocks and crystals.

Love this place. Historic pieces for sale. Real items. Stones, fossils, bones, an entire array of amazing looking items. Great staff, great location. I definitely recommend

A very interesting shop, but customs at the airport would probably prohibit imports.

The best place to take a souvenir from NY. I recommend it a lot, it's like being in a museum, it has meteorites for sale and many very unique relics. There are memories from 2 dollars.

This store was fascinating to say the least. I absolutely LOVED it! The products are very unique and they are reasonably priced to boot! I bought a strawberry conch shell and an urchin in perfect condition for less then 5 dollars. Bones, bugs, shells, minerals, and more: it was certainly my cup of tea!

Really a place to see in NYC if you are in the area. It's a pretty small shop but you'll find a lot of oddities to buy, be it insects to eat, animals kept in various forms or just things that come out a little out of the ordinary. Even if you do not buy anything, go for a ride just for the pleasure of the eye. The saleswoman was nice!

Fantastic store carrying amazing things. Everything is laid out on the tables or in display cases clearly, so that it can be handled and examined. They have a large assortment of beautiful and unique natural items atan assortment of prices. (Most seem reasonable, through some indeed expensive.) The staff is friendly and knowledgeable. I spent over an hour looking around, and never felt any pressure. I could easily have spent more time.

The store is full of interesting and unique things. A very beautiful collection of butterflies. There is something to see and buy ...

Fascinating place. Like a mini museum of natural history, with a really cool gift shop.

Not a great place. It may seem interesting to people that don't see bones, taxidermy, etc often, but to a collector there isn't anything terribly unusual and much of the collection seemed overpriced. The people working also payed no attention to anyone in the store.

I loved this place and i m looking forward to go back, they have wonderful things!

Museum like store. If you like Ripley's, this is a store for you

Love this store. Staff are very friendly and helpful.

This store USED to be awesome! The staff used to be quirky, informative and going there used to be a wonderful experience. You used to be able to find all sorts of oddities and interesting items. Now it s a generic store overrun with generic over priced Knick knacks. The original charm is gone and the staff is rude, unwelcoming and halfway between unintelligent and uninterested especially when it comes to answering questions about the interesting items the store still has. Hopefully you guys can regain your former glory, until then I won t be back.

I have been to many unique places in my life but this place is definitely on the top of my list! Very rare meteorites, taxidermy, and more!

Good selection and reasonable prices. Who would imagine that a dinosaur tooth can be bought for as little as $10. Can be a good place for last-minute gifts

Unbelievable skeletons of small animals! Being an artist, winter at home anatomy acrylic and ink sketches beautiful experience. Note: need medical credentials to purchase human ones. Oh well!

This place is so unique and interesting, it's worth venturing to the area just to see it. I've never seen anything like it in NYC and it's surprising that you can find lion heads, stuffed creatures, etc. in the heart of such a liberal city. It's so different that it's awesome. You're likely to walk into the shop with your jaw wide open and when you leave, you are going to say "wow". There are some little cheaper trinkets you can buy there as well as tens of thousands of dollar stuffed animals. There's enough things in each nook and cranny of the shop to spend an hour or more browsing. Marvel at the wonders.

Fun place to visit with a kid in the city. Very impressive pieces.

Unique store to shop for skulls, insects, or an art piece with a variety of bats....

What a cool store. All the skulls remind me of Lord Byron setting his table with wine goblets fashioned from human skulls. And other cool stuff. Not for the squeamish, though
Don't go if you're afraid of death. Lol.

This place has some interesting specimens, but they're interspersed with generic junk. Worth stopping in but if you're looking to spend less than a couple hundred dollars there's nothing worthwhile.

Interesting store with a nice collection of 'this and that' you may not find elsewhere and great gifts - who would not like a bat? I don't feel they deserve the $$$ they get - it is not overly expensive (sure one could get better prices online but this is Broadway and that costs).

Awesome place to buy bugs encased in glass and various creepy animal skeletons.

Into evolution or science in general? Definitely stop by this shop. It's almost hard to believe all the stuff they sell.

What terrific store! It's like a little natural history museum where everything's for sale. Fossils, asteroids, taxidermy, dinosaur bones, rocks (They're minerals, Marie), etc. Such an unusual store filled with atypical, creepy things like a dissected rabbit encased in resin, and cool science souvenirs. A little expensive. Wish the store was bigger and I hope they stay around for a long time. There needs to be more shops like this.

Fun store to visit, but didn't find anything I had to have on my trip there, still really cute ambiance

Wow! A real apothecary shop, semi precious stones, all kinds of fossils, bones, furs, all kind of strange merchandise and very pretty jewelry.
Prices are decent

If you are in the NYU area, stop in and look around at this shop. They have tons of interesting fossils, skeletons and general oddities. The prices actually seemed reasonable for the type of items they are selling. It is almost a museum where you can buy the artifacts that are on display.

extraordinary replica of a great white shark's tooth

The women who worked there with the black hair yelled at me for asking if they had something in stock even though every time ive shopped in this store ive spent ove $50

If you love science, history or nature, do yourself a favor and visit. Most would be amazed by what they sell here.

Lots of fun things! Went home with a nice little dung beetles friend!

This shop is like fascinating museum, beautifully displayed. And the prices are excellent. Certainly NOT overpriced. I left with 4 cool gifts for under $40.00. The staff are friendly, informative, helpful, no-pressure.

Fairly priced specimens but also great for window shopping

Such a cool store!!!! Perfect for enthusiasts of taxidermy or skeletons! So much cool art and preserved skeletons and oddities here

Nice shop, visit a little like a museum, except that in the end, we leave with a tuft of mammoth hairs!

A natural history museum where the displays are for sale. Downstairs has small items that range for smaller skulls to metalwork jewelry and more. Upstairs seems to have more of the bigger mounts and skeletons. Worth a stop whether you're looking for something unusual to add to your collection or don't want to wind your way through a big museum.

Unique shop of its kind, absolutely extraordinary. Items for all budgets and for all tastes, from $ 5 fossils to thousands-dollar skulls! Not to be missed. Super friendly and super helpful staff

This place is so cool! Something to buy at all price points and the staff are exceedingly lovely.

You will not find what this store has anywhere else. It is truly exceptional and amazing.

Awesome place to visit if your into taxidermy and like collecting the awesome cased butterflies. They had many butterflies but they didn't have a female morpho amathonte. Maybe I missed it.

This place is crazy cool.

Real seashells, natural stones, all kinds of curiosities and oddities, if you're looking for a unique science related gift for anyone of all ages, make a trip here, you won't regret it.

One stop shopping for the nerd in your life or in my case ... me.

One of my favourite places in New York City. Some fascinating pieces available if you have a morbid fascination with Natural History.

All kinds of skeleton and insect animal models can be taken in a store for some time.

What an amazing store!! I wanted to buy most of it.

Wow, super neat place. Was really impressed by the collection of oddities. Definitely worth perusing to scoop up neat things for your home decor or study.

High prices but it's worth the visit to check out all the weird stuff they display.

Cool shop. Unfortunately I wanted a shirt, but thet had no stock. Very disappointed.

Oddities and curiosities are the name of the game here, with embalmed two-headed snakes, freeze-dried frogs, and skeletons of just about everything that's ever lived. On the less grisly side, there's a great selection of crystals and stones. A Spring Street highlight.

If you're looking for the perfect set of skulls carved from vintage billiard balls, a 5' long snake skeleton, pieces from that special meteorite, a mounted butterfly collection, skeletons for your family closet, slices of colorful minerals, or geological decor . . . this is the place.

It's pricey, a little snooty, somewhat aloof staff, and a whole lot of fun. When our kids were younger, and Evolution was in Soho, we couldn't keep them away from the place. After it moved, we lost track. Just happened to walk by Saturday.

The store has improved. It's bigger than it used to be and seems more varied. The oddities are great! It's very entertaining. Prices are a bit high, but I think that's what you'd expect for the unique

Really cool place to look at fossils and really cool historic stuff. Bought a sweatshirt that's amazing quality and has a great design. Overall great place to check out.

You must go there once. But there is no point to visit it again.

Wow wow wow. Decorate your study with items from this store and give people the impression that an enigma gave a paradox a very special hug and the result was your eclectic taste in all things naturally selected.

this is where I learned no matter how expensive of a necklace, getting gifts was NOT my ex s love language

Super interesting and unusual shop to find the perfect out of the ordinary gift.

Unusual souvenirs and gifts. If you want to impress someone - come in this place.

Awesome place if you like bones and other unique items.

Really interesting shop in SoHo. Its worth a visit if you are in the area, but I will probably never buy anything from here.