Antique stores in Beirut

Beirut, Beirut has 12 antique stores on the map. That's 12 antique shops mapped around Beirut. Specialties differ enormously — furniture, jewellery, ephemera — so the shop that matches your interest matters more than the count. Learn to read the marks: maker's marks, hallmarks, and labels are the difference between a find and a folly.

This guide covers every antique store we could verify in and around Beirut (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Hadi Maktabi and D'Ailleurs, plus Espace Jacques Ouaiss. If an antique shop's missing from Beirut's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Beirut antique lineup

12 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about antique stores in Beirut

1 of the 12 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — antique shops keep civilised hours, so the listed times are usually good.

The one mapped antique store sits on 123 شارع بترو طراد — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

The Beirut antique trail

The efficient Beirut antique trail strings these together: Hadi Maktabi, D'Ailleurs, Espace Jacques Ouaiss, Au Gant Rouge, Arabesque, Sodeco Antiquités, luna shop on 123 شارع بترو طراد, and Le Voltaire — 12 stops, one logical order. 4 more are listed below.

Antique hunting tips for Beirut

A few things worth knowing before you work through Beirut's antique stores:

• Ask the dealer to teach you at Hadi Maktabi. Dealers who love their stock love talking about it. An hour of questions is a free education.
• Ask about delivery at D'Ailleurs. Many dealers deliver locally or know someone who does. Don't let logistics kill a good find.
• Ask about restoration. Has it been restored, and by whom? Honest restoration is fine; hidden restoration is a problem.
• Visit regularly. Stock turns over as estates come in. The regulars see the good pieces first — be a regular.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Beirut — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new antique store in Beirut can take a while to appear. The 12 above are only as current as the community map. A antique store that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't list prices or authenticate pieces — that's the dealer's job in person. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 12 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.