Shop macabre in Helsinki

The most weird shop you can imagine is Götan maailma – Omituista antiikkia (Göta´s world – weird antiques).

The owner Thomas Hamberg is an artist-actor and a passionate collector of weird things. When his home became too crowded, he opened this shop in May 2011.

Now the shop is also crowded and getting more and more crowded with old things, medical objects and death masks, skeletons and skulls, dioramas and animals from Victorian era, fossils, all kind of death memorablia and religious antiques.

There are also workshops, for example how to make a bit different Christmas decorations or how to stuff animals.

Here a stuffed rabbit means something else you normally think. It is not a meal.

Götan maailma, Tarkkampujankatu 9, Helsinki. Open Mon-Fri 10am to 6pm, Sat 10 am to 2pm. Check the news of the shop also in FB/Götan Maailma.

Photos©Paula Hietaranta