Southern Fossil & Mineral Exchange

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  • Address
    2049 Magazine St, Lower Garden District
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    504 523 5525

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Lonely Planet review

The SFME is a store that can induce nightmares of the bone-rattling variety. It's a curiosity museum where most everything's got a price tag on it. So if you're impressed by the selection of skulls from all creatures great and small displayed here, you can take some home with you. Something to raise the eyebrows of the guards at the airport when your luggage goes through the X-ray machine.

Far more subdued are the rocks on which ancient life forms have imprinted images of themselves. Pretty cool, actually, even if it just ends up as a paperweight on your desk. A selection of realistic animal puppets is just the thing to appease your terrified children.