Antique stores in Melbourne
Antique shops are history you can buy. Melbourne, VIC has 43 mapped right now. That's 43 antique shops mapped around Melbourne. Specialties differ enormously — furniture, jewellery, ephemera — so the shop that matches your interest matters more than the count. Condition is everything and provenance is king — ask about both before anything expensive.
This guide covers every antique store we could verify in and around Melbourne (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Used Pty Ltd - The Stage and Watsons Creek Cafe and Antiques, plus Smith Street Bazaar. If an antique shop's missing from Melbourne's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Melbourne antique lineup
43 mapped within about 40 km:
Used Pty Ltd - The Stage
Antique store
Used Pty Ltd - The Stage — Antique store on 150 Johnston Street. Also worth knowing about Used Pty Ltd - The Stage: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
150 Johnston Street
Phone: +61 3 9010 5514
Watsons Creek Cafe and Antiques
Antique store
Watsons Creek Cafe and Antiques is Antique store.
Smith Street Bazaar
Antique store
Smith Street Bazaar — Antique store on 305 Smith Street. Also worth knowing about Smith Street Bazaar: the map lists its hours as Mo 12:00-18:00; Tu-Fr 11:00-18:00; Sa-Su 10:30-17:00.
305 Smith Street, 3065
Hours: Mo 12:00-18:00; Tu-Fr 11:00-18:00; Sa-Su 10:30-17:00
Capocchi Harlequin
Antique store
Capocchi Harlequin is Antique store on 941-951 High Street.
941-951 High Street, 3143
Virtanen
Antique store
Virtanen is Antique store on 933 High Street.
933 High Street, 3143
The Mount Dandenong Antique Centre & Butlers Vintage Depot
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The Mount Dandenong Antique Centre & Butlers Vintage Depot — Antique store.
Etruria Antiques Gallery
Antique store
Etruria Antiques Gallery is Antique store on 146 Johnston Street. Etruria Antiques Gallery also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
146 Johnston Street, 3066
The History
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The History — Antique store on 206 Wellington Street.
206 Wellington Street, 3066
Graham Geddes
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Graham Geddes — Antique store.
Wakim Antique Restorations
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Wakim Antique Restorations is Antique store on 10 Nicholson Street. Wakim Antique Restorations also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
10 Nicholson Street
Acquisitions of Distinction
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Acquisitions of Distinction — Antique store on 484 Neerim Road.
484 Neerim Road, 3163
Chinese Pottery
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Chinese Pottery is Antique store.
Antiques A Brac
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Antiques A Brac — Antique store.
Black Orpheus
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Black Orpheus — Antique store on 108 Poath Road.
108 Poath Road
Smits and Bits
Antique store
Smits and Bits is Antique store. Smits and Bits also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 11:00-16:30,Sa-Su 10:00-17:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Hours: Mo-Fr 11:00-16:30,Sa-Su 10:00-17:00
Phone: +61 3 9755 2200
Gregory's Antiques and Lights
Antique store
Gregory's Antiques and Lights is Antique store on 147 St Georges Road. Gregory's Antiques and Lights also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
147 St Georges Road
Antiques Brica Brac
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Antiques Brica Brac — Antique store.
Coburg Hill Antiques
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Coburg Hill Antiques — Antique store.
Ace Antiques
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Ace Antiques is Antique store.
Restorer's Barn
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Restorer's Barn — Antique store on 294-296 Kororoit Creek Road.
294-296 Kororoit Creek Road, 3016
Page Antiques
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Page Antiques — Antique store on 175 Canterbury Road.
175 Canterbury Road, 3126
Camberwell Antique Centre
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Camberwell Antique Centre — Antique store on 25 Cookson Street.
25 Cookson Street, 3124
Elite Office Machines Co.
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Elite Office Machines Co. is Antique store.
F.J. Rocca
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F.J. Rocca is Antique store.
Dr Quirky's Vintage Emporium
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Dr Quirky's Vintage Emporium — Antique store.
Top Hat Antiques
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Top Hat Antiques is Antique store on 873 High Street.
873 High Street, 3071
Albany Antiques
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Albany Antiques is Antique store on 1382 Malvern Road. Albany Antiques also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
1382 Malvern Road
Phone: +61 412 396 178
Babylon Antiques
Antique store
Babylon Antiques is Antique store on 87 Sydney Road.
87 Sydney Road
Big Antler
Antique store
Big Antler is Antique store on 158 Maroondah Highway. Big Antler also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Th 10:00-16:30; Sa-Su 10:00-16:30; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
158 Maroondah Highway
Hours: Mo-Th 10:00-16:30; Sa-Su 10:00-16:30
Phone: +61 3 9877 7751
ONE 39 Vintage Warehouse
Antique store
ONE 39 Vintage Warehouse — Antique store on 39 Milne Avenue. Also worth knowing about ONE 39 Vintage Warehouse: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
39 Milne Avenue
Phone: +61 400 282 328
Kim's Antiques Auctions
Antique store
Kim's Antiques Auctions — Antique store. Also worth knowing about Kim's Antiques Auctions: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Phone: +61 3 9808 1684
Miguel Meirelles Antiques
Antique store
Miguel Meirelles Antiques — Antique store on 1377-1379 Malvern Road. Also worth knowing about Miguel Meirelles Antiques: it has a website with more detail.
1377-1379 Malvern Road
The Collector Auction House
Antique store
The Collector Auction House — Antique store on 25 Melbourne Street.
25 Melbourne Street
Ten Past One Vintage
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Ten Past One Vintage is Antique store on 247 Melville Road.
247 Melville Road, 3055
Nostalgia Antiques
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Nostalgia Antiques is Antique store on 590 High Street. Nostalgia Antiques also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
590 High Street, 3071
Phone: +61 3 9480 3745
Martin Allen Antiques
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Martin Allen Antiques is Antique store on 436 Clarendon Street.
436 Clarendon Street, 3205
Used Pty Ltd
Antique store
Used Pty Ltd — Antique store on 260 Johnston Street. Also worth knowing about Used Pty Ltd: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
260 Johnston Street
Phone: +61 427 125 648
Leski Auctions
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Leski Auctions is Antique store.
Roy's Antiques
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Roy's Antiques is Antique store on 410 Queens Parade. Roy's Antiques also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
410 Queens Parade, 3068
Melbourne Vintage Audio
Antique store
Melbourne Vintage Audio is Antique store.
The Old Post Office Antiques
Antique store
The Old Post Office Antiques is Antique store on 185 St Georges Road. The Old Post Office Antiques also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
185 St Georges Road, 3068
Lotus Antique
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Lotus Antique is Antique store.
Market Fair
Antique store
Market Fair is Antique store on 794 Burwood Highway.
794 Burwood Highway, 3156
What the map tells us about antique stores in Melbourne
3 of the 43 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — antique shops keep civilised hours, so the listed times are usually good.
11 have websites listed. Worth a look for specialty areas — every dealer leans somewhere.
The Melbourne antique trail
Making a day of it in Melbourne? Work this order: Used Pty Ltd - The Stage on 150 Johnston Street, Watsons Creek Cafe and Antiques, Smith Street Bazaar on 305 Smith Street, Capocchi Harlequin on 941-951 High Street, Virtanen on 933 High Street, The Mount Dandenong Antique Centre & Butlers Vintage Depot, Etruria Antiques Gallery on 146 Johnston Street, and The History on 206 Wellington Street. That's the antique trail in one sensible loop, no backtracking. 35 more are listed below.
Antique hunting tips for Melbourne
Hunting antiques in Melbourne? A few rules help:
- Learn wood identification at Used Pty Ltd - The Stage. Mahogany versus stained pine is a value chasm. A basic grasp of woods saves expensive mistakes.
- Keep receipts and records at Watsons Creek Cafe and Antiques. For anything valuable, keep the receipt and the dealer's description. Provenance starts with you.
- Patina is value. Original patina on metal and wood is desirable. Over-polished pieces have lost something irrecoverable.
- Ask about the shop's specialty. Every dealer leans somewhere: furniture, silver, books, textiles. Find the lean that matches your interest.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Melbourne — 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 Melbourne can take a while to appear. The 43 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 43 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.
Antique store listings for Melbourne: 43 mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.