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Walk through the red curtain, just past the coffin-shaped door, and you enter an entirely different atmosphere: The Mourning Museum at Borrowed Time Oddities.
Borrowed Time Oddities is home to many strange, unusual, and esoteric objects, but the Mourning Museum is its true centerpiece. Inside, you’ll find antique funerary items dating back to the 1800s, alongside deformed animal specimens and examples of human osteology, including skulls, skeletons, and other bones.
Standout pieces include a 1920s glass coffin salesman’s sample, a Victorian hair wreath, and Bartholomew, a Victorian-era fetal skeleton.
After exploring the museum, step back through the coffin door to browse the rest of Borrowed Time Oddities, filled with taxidermy, wet and dry specimens, and witchy provisions of all kinds. This is the stop for lovers of the macabre in the Michigan area.
Know Before You Go
The Mourning Museum and Borrowed Time Oddities are open Thursday–Sunday: Thursday: 12–6 Friday & Saturday: 12–7 Sunday: 12–4
Museum admission: Ages 12 & up: $7 Ages 5–11: $5 Ages 4 & under: Free
$2 from every museum ticket is donated to a mental health and suicide prevention charity.Your museum “ticket” is a toe tag, which you get to keep.
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December 24, 2025