Antique stores in Sydney
Hunting antiques in Sydney, NSW? There are 21 shops mapped here. That's 21 antique shops mapped around Sydney. Specialties differ enormously — furniture, jewellery, ephemera — so the shop that matches your interest matters more than the count. The dealers who love their stock love talking about it — ask, and you'll learn more in an hour than any guide teaches.
This guide covers every antique store we could verify in and around Sydney (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Austiques and Glebe Antiques Centre, plus Aalders. If an antique shop's missing from Sydney's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Sydney antique lineup
21 mapped within about 40 km:
Austiques
Antique store
Austiques — Antique store. Also worth knowing about Austiques: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-17:00.
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-17:00
Glebe Antiques Centre
Antique store
Glebe Antiques Centre is Antique store.
Aalders
Antique store
Aalders is Antique store on 18 Parramatta Road. Aalders also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-16:00 "by appointment".
18 Parramatta Road, 2048
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-16:00 "by appointment"
Joe's Old Wares
Antique store
Joe's Old Wares is Antique store. Joe's Old Wares also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Phone: +61 414 254 719
Maya Michael's Antiques
Antique store
Maya Michael's Antiques — Antique store.
Towers Antiques
Antique store
Towers Antiques is Antique store.
Old Wares
Antique store
Old Wares is Antique store.
Chilton Antique and Vintage Jewellery
Antique store
Chilton Antique and Vintage Jewellery — Antique store.
McLeod's Antiques
Antique store
McLeod's Antiques is Antique store. McLeod's 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.
Phone: +61 2 9361 0602
Antique General Store
Antique store
Antique General Store — Antique store on Warraba Road. Also worth knowing about Antique General Store: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-17:00; it has a website with more detail.
Warraba Road
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-17:00
Abbott's Antiques
Antique store
Abbott's Antiques — Antique store.
Potts Point Galleries Sydney
Antique store
Potts Point Galleries Sydney — Antique store. Also worth knowing about Potts Point Galleries Sydney: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-17:00; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-17:00
L & M’s Emporium
Antique store
L & M’s Emporium — Antique store on 263 Liverpool Road. Also worth knowing about L & M’s Emporium: the map lists its hours as Mo-Tu off; We-Su 10:00-17:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
263 Liverpool Road, 2131
Hours: Mo-Tu off; We-Su 10:00-17:00
Phone: +61 403 038 998
506070
Antique store
506070 is Antique store. 506070 also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Sa 10:00-14:00; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Sa 10:00-14:00
Antiques ⸱ Art ⸱ Design
Antique store
Antiques ⸱ Art ⸱ Design is Antique store. Antiques ⸱ Art ⸱ Design also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
Mitchell Road Antique & Design Centre
Antique store
Mitchell Road Antique & Design Centre — Antique store on 17 Bourke Road. Also worth knowing about Mitchell Road Antique & Design Centre: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-18:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
17 Bourke Road
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-18:00
Phone: +61 2 9698 0907
Antique Decorative Art
Antique store
Antique Decorative Art — Antique store. Also worth knowing about Antique Decorative Art: it has a website with more detail.
Thats So Mi
Antique store
Thats So Mi is Antique store. Thats So Mi also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as We-Fr 11:00-16:00; Sa,Su 10:00-17:00; Mo,Tu off.
Hours: We-Fr 11:00-16:00; Sa,Su 10:00-17:00; Mo,Tu off
Southern Antiques
Antique store
Southern Antiques — Antique store on 243 Princes Highway. Also worth knowing about Southern Antiques: it has a website with more detail.
243 Princes Highway
Dust
Antique store
Dust is Antique store.
Village Goods
Antique store
Village Goods — Antique store.
What the map tells us about antique stores in Sydney
8 of the 21 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — antique shops keep civilised hours, so the listed times are usually good.
9 have websites listed. Worth a look for specialty areas — every dealer leans somewhere.
The Sydney antique trail
The efficient Sydney antique trail strings these together: Austiques, Glebe Antiques Centre, Aalders on 18 Parramatta Road, Joe's Old Wares, Maya Michael's Antiques, Towers Antiques, Old Wares, and Chilton Antique and Vintage Jewellery — 21 stops, one logical order. 13 more are listed below.
Antique hunting tips for Sydney
A few things worth knowing before you work through Sydney's antique stores:
- Check the back and underside at Austiques. Construction tells the truth: dovetails, screws, saw marks. Flip it over (carefully) before you decide.
- Don't be afraid to haggle (politely) at Glebe Antiques Centre. Antique prices have room, especially on pieces that have sat a while. Polite offers are expected; lowballing isn't.
- Start with what you love. Collect what interests you, not what's 'hot'. Markets cool; genuine interest doesn't.
- Learn to spot married pieces. Furniture assembled from mismatched parts — 'married' — is worth far less. Check that everything matches in age and style.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Sydney — 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 Sydney can take a while to appear. The 21 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 21 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 Sydney: 21 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.