Bloomington Antique Mall

Monster of a building so plan on spending a bit of time.

3 glorious floors of mainly antiques.

Visited with my better half. If you've read any of my reviews you know I am so highly antiques illiterate - it is horrible. My better half knows antiques so admirably well.

So I happily tag along and hope he doesn't quiz me as he occasionally does with "What's this?" - my standard answer is "carnival glass" (no matter what it is and "pie safe" for any furniture ) but God love him, he still keeps trying to educate me on antiques. Sometimes he has me "bird dog" and I look for specific things for him. All in all, it is fun and I do learn something new each time.

We both do like cool old buildings and wow this one is cool. Three floors of "stuff" - Nicely organized. They do have an elevator by the washrooms on the main floor if you'd rather not do stairs (they aren't bad at all).

Washrooms are clean (one stall out of tp when we were there but still clean).

Parking is a tad but wonky but i think you can park down the street and walk.

There is an incredibly amount of stuff.

So he looked through three floors of merchandise. I found plenty to intrigue myself. He made several purchases and was quite pleased with our visit.

Seemed be a lot of college "kids" in the place which made my heart happy to see younger people happily looking at "old stuff".

Overall - a home run visit.

Wow this place is huge and has all kinds of things. I love antiquing and found some cool stuff here. Prices are a little high. Things I know I could get for less elsewhere but it's always fun to see what is considered vintage. There are also some booths with crafts for sale. 3 floors of goodies here. Parking isn't great, there are a few spots next to the building but there is a place for overflow parking if that is full. Staff is friendly and helpful.

Worst customer service. My experience was ruined by a young woman who was working this afternoon. We asked for the price on an item. She kept repeating the same thing that they can't sell an item without asking the vendor the price which we understood, and when we asked if they could call us once they got the price she insisted we were being difficult and said she couldn't help us if we didn't help her (aka remember where we found the item in a giant store with three stories that we spent an hour and a half in). She was demeaning, condescending and rude. Made me regret spending any money there.

Big big place, mostly boring antiques, there are some corners with some nice pop culture stuff, not a ton of vhs, some pockets of dvds. Some of the prices are reasonable. Mostly they're preposterous.

Nice variety of items. I enjoyed browsing but did not end up purchasing anything. Very helpful staff.

I really enjoyed my visit to this antique mall. It has three floors of booths for visitors to inspect with a stairwell near the entrance. For those with mobility issues, there is a ramp outside to reach the entrance and an elevator about midway towards the back on the east side of the showroom. Note that some of the booths are cramped with their own layouts, so getting around inside them may be challenging, especially if someone else is in the booth.

After using some metered street parking nearby, I entered and saw the checkout counter to my left. I decided to start on the bottom floor and work my way around each floor before moving onto the next.

I wasn't looking for anything specific, but I did notice some very nice quality furniture, some musical instruments (especially electric guitars), lots of books and vinyl too. Towards the back, there were some weapons locked up, but for sale. Lots of home decor items and some collectibles, but most of those were hit or miss: I didn't see any great grouping of items.

Generally, I was free to browse at my own pace without much interaction with vendors or staff. During the week, the crowd was small, so I was able to spend as much time looking as I wanted and then headed on.

Overall, a nice representation of items to look at. As with most places, it really depends upon your personal taste and price point for how much you find here.

Review #3413

This mall is set up in booths from individual sellers. While I didn't come home with anything, it was nice to browse the selection and see what was available. I was intrigued by the taxidermy display on one of the floors--definitely not something I see every day!

Really diverse merchandise in the flea market format. Sometimes prices can be negotiated if you're diligent, and the staff aren't too busy to contact kiosk renters.

This is a very large place and you might find gems here. There's less actual dodgy junk than you'll find in other locations, and the furniture selection can sometimes be really good.

I stroll through a couple of times a year, and it takes a while because it's a huge place and there is a reasonable churn of merchandise. It's less fleas than one might expect.

A very unique antique mall located in downtown Bloomington. Overall it's set up like your average antique mall, but the building this one is in makes it unique. Usually these malls are in big wide open warehouse type spaces. This one it seems, is in either a huge renovated house, or possibly an old factory. Whatever it was, it made for a unique appearance as an antique mall.

There was a lot of good stuff in here. Pricing wasn't crazy, there were definite good deals to be found. I appreciated all the music stuff they had..from vinyl to cds to cassette tapes, as well as actual instruments and old school memorabilia.

Other booths here had crazy retro stuff. Stuff I hadn't seen since I was a kid. Stuff it looked like my parents probably hadn't seen since they were kids. It was all pretty cool and interesting.

This place has three levels: the main floor, upstairs, and then in the basement. The basement was slightly creepy but not too bad.

On a scale of antique malls that I've been to I would put this on the better side. If I lived in the area I have a feeling I would check it out on a regular basis.

Of all the antique malls I've visited, Bloomington Antique Mall is one of the nicest. I didn't get a creepy or old lady vibe that a lot of similar places give off (even if those porcelain dolls were giving me the side eye). This place is HUGE. With over 600 stalls, I don't think you could see everything! We easily killed an hour or so walking around.

In terms of what's offered, it's exactly what you'd expect from an antique mall. Some hidden gems, some overpriced "crap on a stick," as my dad would say. I was caught off guard at a few modern things, like a hand towel with a screen printed "#blessed." Like what? Threw off the antique vibe.