Antique stores in Zanzibar City
Hunting antiques in Zanzibar City, Zanzibar? There are 5 shops mapped here. That's 5 antique shops mapped around Zanzibar City. 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 Zanzibar City (within about 25 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Zanzibar Curio Shop and Al-Tamini Curio Shop, plus Tamim Curio Shop. If an antique shop's missing from Zanzibar City's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Zanzibar City antique lineup
5 in Zanzibar City:
Zanzibar Curio Shop
Antique store1.5 km from Zanzibar City
Zanzibar Curio Shop is Antique store. Zanzibar Curio Shop also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Phone: 2232077
Al-Tamini Curio Shop
Antique store1.5 km from Zanzibar City
Al-Tamini Curio Shop — Antique store, found on Soko Muhogo Street in Stone Town. Also worth knowing about Al-Tamini Curio Shop: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Soko Muhogo Street, Stone Town
Phone: +255 777 858585
Tamim Curio Shop
Antique store1.5 km from Zanzibar City
Tamim Curio Shop — Antique store, found on Cathedral Street in Stone Town. Also worth knowing about Tamim Curio Shop: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Cathedral Street, Stone Town
Phone: +255 77 7438202
Abeid Curio Antiquities
Antique store1.5 km from Zanzibar City
Abeid Curio Antiquities is Antique store.
Lookmanji Arts and Antiques
Antique store1.7 km from Zanzibar City
Lookmanji Arts and Antiques is Antique store on Kenyatta Road.
Kenyatta Road
What the map tells us about antique stores in Zanzibar City
None of the 5 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 Zanzibar City list a phone number. Useful for asking about specific pieces or estate arrivals.
The Zanzibar City antique trail
Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Zanzibar Curio Shop, Al-Tamini Curio Shop on Soko Muhogo Street, Tamim Curio Shop on Cathedral Street, Abeid Curio Antiquities, and Lookmanji Arts and Antiques on Kenyatta Road. That's 5 stops on the Zanzibar City antique trail.
Antique hunting tips for Zanzibar City
A few things worth knowing before you work through Zanzibar City's antique stores:
- Beware the reproduction at Zanzibar Curio Shop. Good fakes exist for everything collectible. If the price seems too good, assume reproduction until proven otherwise.
- Learn to spot married pieces at Al-Tamini Curio Shop. Furniture assembled from mismatched parts — 'married' — is worth far less. Check that everything matches in age and style.
- Learn the marks. Maker's marks, hallmarks, factory stamps — they're the ID cards of antiques. A loupe and a marks guide change everything.
- Ask about restoration. Has it been restored, and by whom? Honest restoration is fine; hidden restoration is a problem.
Good to know
We searched about 25 km around Zanzibar City — 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 Zanzibar City can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 5, or a antique store we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.
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 5 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 Zanzibar City: 5 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.