Antique stores in Brisbane

Brisbane, QLD has 7 antique stores on the map. That's 7 antique shops mapped around Brisbane. 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 Brisbane (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Silky Oak Furnature and Camp Hill Antique Centre and Tart Cafe, plus Michael Allen Antiques. If an antique shop's missing from Brisbane's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Brisbane antique lineup

7 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about antique stores in Brisbane

5 of the 7 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — antique shops keep civilised hours, so the listed times are usually good.

3 have websites listed. Worth a look for specialty areas — every dealer leans somewhere.

The Brisbane antique trail

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Silky Oak Furnature, Camp Hill Antique Centre and Tart Cafe, Michael Allen Antiques on 987 Stanley Street East, Empire Revival on 167 Latrobe Terrace, Restoration Station on 98 Waterworks Road, Ipswich Antique Centre on 86 East Street, and The Antique Guild on 32 Corunna Street. That's 7 stops on the Brisbane antique trail.

Antique hunting tips for Brisbane

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

• Don't be afraid to haggle (politely) at Silky Oak Furnature. Antique prices have room, especially on pieces that have sat a while. Polite offers are expected; lowballing isn't.
• Don't overlook ephemera at Camp Hill Antique Centre and Tart Cafe. Old paper — maps, posters, postcards — is affordable, fascinating, and easy to live with.
• Ask about restoration. Has it been restored, and by whom? Honest restoration is fine; hidden restoration is a problem.
• Learn the local estate rhythm. Estate clearances feed the shops. Ask when fresh estate stock typically arrives.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Brisbane — 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 Brisbane can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 7 that's closed, or a great antique store we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

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 7 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.