Antiquarium Antique Print & Map Gallery

If you want a memorable, creative, generally awesome gift — this is where you can find it! A great selection of maps, bird prints, egg prints, architectural renderings, etc. The prices on the framed pieces are thousands, but they will help you find something within your price range. I came in looking for a map of China for a gift, and left with a beautiful 1850’s handcolored and engraved map for just over $ 150. There are neat, smaller prints for as low as $ 20. Definitely come take a look! It’s like being at a lovely museum.

I have popped into this shop a few times over the years and have always been impressed by the number of things they carry. Its really amazing to step over a 200 year old $ 2000 map that’s on the floor. There is stuff everywhere (in agood way)! I recently purchased a Christmas gift for my wife from them. I appreciate that the owner took the time to greet me and talk with me despite the fact that what I spent is small relative to many of their items. He clearly is passionate about what he sells. Great experience! :-)

I lust after the maps in this store. The staff is super helpful and they can show you multiple items if you tell them what you are looking for. They have maps of various prices but it is still a very expensive store. I have gotten multiple high quality maps from here and love all the background that they can give you about each piece. I wish they were less expensive but the quality is unbeatable. If you are interested in maps or fine prints this is the place to go.

Cool store with beautiful old prints and maps. It’s fun to go in and just browse. I found a beautiful old map of Charleston, SC that I loved. But it was out of my price range – many items can be in excess of five figures. Intense.
The staff is quite helpful and patient. I was novice searching for a gift. The staff made the process simple and enjoyable. They also do framing.
I will stop in again next time I am over in the area to sort through the stacks of images from bygone times.

This place is amazing. They have an impressive collection of old maps, prints, postcards, etc.
The employees are all friendly and very knowledgeable about the prints and their origin. They also can tell you about the particular cartographers.
I have purchased one map and several prints from this store over the past few years. I have been very impressed by the unique selection and by the quality of the framing. They have everything ranging from more inexpensive prints to true one of a kind collector’s items. The framing is museum quality.
I recently purchased two postcards. The Antiquarium was having them framed for me. I assumed it would take at least a week to have the postcards framed. I was pretty surprised when I was told it would only take a few days. In fact, I kind of doubted this estimate and thought it was likely that it would take a bit longer. Instead, I was pleasantly surprised and a bit shocked when I received a call the very same day telling me that the postcards were ready. That is great customer service!
What a wonderful place!

We have all been, at one time or another, in the front office of some prestigious or large outfit that sees fit to festoon the walls with old prints of engravings of animals, ships, old maps, and other subject matters. I have found the place from whence these engravings come, and it’s now one of my favorites places in all Houston.
When my friends and I got done eating at the House of Pies on Kirby this past Sunday, we had some time to kill before we had to be back at Palmer Episcopal for our choir’s concert later that afternoon. We decided the Borders on Kirby @ Alabama would be a good place for that.
But when we got there, my friends were quickly distracted: the Antiquarium awaited with its treasure trove of Texana, Houstana, Eurocana, and even a bit of Americana to boot. I quickly saw why.
Established in 1990 and in its latest digs since 2000, the Antiquarium bills itself as Houston’s largest purveyor of fine antique prints from Europe (mainly) and from the States (some). The place also has a number of one-​of-​a-​kind historical items, all of which are suitable for framing as the store deals almost exclusively with paper items, the few exceptions being old globes, an 1880s spyglass, and an authentic Comanche bow. The place has more than its share of Texas and Houston-​related items including a map of Houston the owner is currently offering for $ 200,000.
If you’re looking for a history lesson as well as for something to put on your wall, the Antiquarium is your place. Greg, the owner, could not be nicer and more accommodating to questions and inquiries, and he seems perfectly fine with people coming in to just browse. I was only too sorry I was too poor to buy something — so many beautiful things, and the place will do the framing for you as well from a wide selection of frames in its frame shop.
The engravings and all are mounted on archival mats and wrapped in plastic wrap. Hence, one may go to the store and handle the items without care as to touching the old paper itself. I could happily spend hours and hours and hours here «just browsing».
Best museum value in town, and you don’t even need a ticket or membership to walk in the door…

While this may not be my cup of tea as far as decorating goes, this is most definitely a cool place to check out. The hubby loves old maps, so we stopped in one day to check it out. Very impressive.
This store has so many old prints, paintings, lithos, documents, etc that you could spend hours in here easily. The maps where what we came in for and they were pretty impressive. I especially loved the older ones that showed how cartographers envisioned what the world looked like back then. (Be aware that there is quite the price tag that goes with these goodies!)
My favorite part was the back section with all of the old documents. You can see slave documents, old currency, letters from numerous wars, etc. It was amazing to see so much history all at your fingertips.
The majority of the store actually had a bunch of art that revolved around birds and flowers. Definitely not what I’m into, but the extreme detail was interesting to look at. What really impressed me was the depth of knowledge from the employees. They really care about their work and it is evident in their explanations. There was one man who was giving basically a history lesson to a little 9 year old doing a history project. Cute!
If you have the bucks and want to splurge on a cool piece of history, this is a nice place to check out. When I was in there, they were preparing for Valentine’s Day so they had old valentine’s sitting there in frames raning from $ 150 – 200.