Antique stores in Kathmandu

Kathmandu, Bagmati has 3 antique stores on the map. That's 3 antique shops mapped around Kathmandu. 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 Kathmandu (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Patan Khukuri House and S.K Art, plus Gurkhas Khukuri House. If an antique shop's missing from Kathmandu's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Kathmandu antique lineup

3 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about antique stores in Kathmandu

None of the 3 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Antique dealers keep fairly standard hours; daytime visits are the safe bet.

Most of the antique stores in Kathmandu list a phone number. Useful for asking about specific pieces or estate arrivals.

The Kathmandu antique trail

Making a day of it in Kathmandu? Work this order: Patan Khukuri House, S.K Art, and Gurkhas Khukuri House. That's the antique trail in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Antique hunting tips for Kathmandu

Hunting antiques in Kathmandu? A few rules help:

• Patina is value at Patan Khukuri House. Original patina on metal and wood is desirable. Over-polished pieces have lost something irrecoverable.
• Don't refinish good pieces at S.K Art. Stripping an original finish can destroy most of the value. When in doubt, clean gently and leave it alone.
• Bring measurements. That sideboard is useless if it won't fit through your door. Measure the room and the car before you fall in love.
• Check the back and underside. Construction tells the truth: dovetails, screws, saw marks. Flip it over (carefully) before you decide.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Kathmandu — 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 Kathmandu can take a while to appear. The 3 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 3 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.