Amsterdam Shopping

Stenelux

#45 of 855 things to do in Amsterdam

#91 of 5557 shopping in Europe

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Good for: collectors, the curious, Explorers, scientists

  • Address
    • 1e Jacob van Campenstraat 2
  • Phone
    • 020 662 14 90
  • Hours
    • Thu-Sat

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Lonely Planet review for Stenelux

Buy an old fossil for that old fossil you left back home. Stenelux has a smart collection from this world and beyond (including meteorites).

 

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    A dream shoppe for scientists, naturalists and explorers!

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    Seriously, it was like stepping into a wonderful fictional shoppe from Jules Verne's imagination, or maybe Charles Darwin's cluttered study. Stenelux is a charming little, independently owned purveyor of rock, mineral, fossil, seashell, and taxidermy specimens located in a several centuries old corner boutique next to a scenic, medieval canal bridge. Part retail store, part workshop, part natural history museum, the creaky wooden floorboards of this enchanting little four room store is filled to the rafters with interesting geological specimens and meteorites in display cases, skeletons of birds and mammals, seashells, mounted taxidermy including exotic insects, and some amazing fossils, like an ammonite the size of a Fiat tyre and wicked looking dinosaur teeth and claws. Much to my delight, I found the prices to be very reasonable also. Most items were IMO below the market price and if I wasn't on a strict vacation budget, I would have bought up a good chunk of the specimens and lugged them home. I had to actually ask the very friendly proprietors (an elder couple) over and over if I was reading the handwritten price tags correctly because I could not believe they were selling such wonderful treasures so cheaply! When I return to Amsterdam (and I will return someday), I will make it a point to visit this shoppe of my dreams again.

    Good for: collectors, the curious, Explorers, scientists

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