Noir Arts & Oddities

Noir Arts & Oddities is a curated oddities-and-antiques boutique in Kansas City’s historic West Bottoms at 1101 Mulberry Street (Unit 1C), stocking unusual antiques, Victorian memento mori and funerary items, antique medical instruments, natural-science specimens, and pop-surrealist / lowbrow local and national art. Open weekly (Wednesday–Sunday), it is one of the district’s most distinctive independent shops.

Description

Noir Arts & Oddities is a curated eclectic boutique in the West Bottoms at 1101 Mulberry Street (Unit 1C), just off W. 11th Street.¹ It blends truly unusual antiques and oddities with local art — a parlor of Victorian-era memento mori and funerary items, 19th- and 20th-century medical antiques, natural-science specimens, and pop-surrealist / lowbrow art from local and national artists.¹² Unlike the first-weekend-only warehouses, it keeps regular weekly hours (Wednesday through Sunday) and has been featured for its distinctiveness (e.g., Atlas Obscura).²

Ownership and history

Noir Arts & Oddities is an independent, locally owned specialty boutique; the proprietor’s name and founding year are not confirmed from public sources.

Sources

Links

• Facebook (primary web presence; the shop’s own domain noirartsandoddities.com only redirects to a Linktree aggregator): https://www.facebook.com/noirartsandoddities/

Footnotes

1. Yelp — Noir Arts and Oddities, 1101 Mulberry St, Kansas City, MO (“Updated February 2026”). https://www.yelp.com/biz/noir-arts-and-oddities-kansas-city — Confirms: address (1101 Mulberry St, Unit 1C, 64101); antiques/oddities/local-art concept; hours (Wed–Fri 12–6 / Sat 11–6 / Sun 11–4); phone (816) 533-4589. ↩ ↩²

2. Atlas Obscura — “Noir Arts & Oddities” (Kansas City). https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/noir-arts-oddities — Confirms: curated oddities boutique; memento mori/funerary/medical/natural-science items; pop-surrealist & lowbrow art; West Bottoms. ↩ ↩²