Welcome to the Museum of Aquarium and Pet History
Welcome to The Museum of Aquarium & Pet History: the world’s most comprehensive collection of artifacts relating to aquarium and pet keeping. This museum includes a huge depository of over 3,000 items that were historically used to keep pets. These items would be antique aquariums, fish bowls and stands, bird cages, squirrel cages, dog, cat, bird, and fish foods and medications, pet advertising signs including neon and automation, pet product shipping wood crates, metal fish shipping cans, etc., etc. The museum also has a library with over 1,000 aquarium and pet books, 5,000 aquarium and pet magazines, and hundreds of original letters from pet companies, pet publishers, aquarium & pet hobbyists, pet stores, etc.
It took four decades to build this collection and it is currently being housed in six buildings. Building number 1 (display building) houses over 200 antique aquariums and fish bowls plus over 200 bird cages along with dog & cat food items, plus antique pet advertising signs and more. Currently we are online only and have monthly articles published on pet history by the best pet historians worldwide. We also have a YouTube channel with a new major release monthly plus new 5-minute weekly videos. We hope to have a building open to the public with rotating exhibits of our collection by 2027. To stay up to date, please subscribe to our YouTube channel and newsletter.
One of the features of our museum website is to showcase the history of pet companies and aquarium hobbyists. We welcome outside contributions on company history from anyone who may have worked at a company no longer in business, or one still in business that has been in business for 25 years or more. We also would like any historical information on tropical fish farms or aquariums, birds, dogs, cats, etc., and hobbyists that have contributed significantly to pet & aquarium keeping.
How you can help the Museum of Aquarium and Pet History:
- Donate. Become a monthly donor or give as you can.
- Donate old pet products you may have such as old aquariums, pet magazines, pet catalogs, old invoices, etc.
- Write an article on your company, or do a Zoom interview!
- Write an article on a historical pet subject that you are an expert on.
- Send us samples of products from your company along with your company’s history to keep on file at the museum.
Thank you for stopping by and stay tuned for lots more aquarium & pet history in the months ahead!
april 2024 Video of the month
In today’s video we take a historical overview of squirrels as pets. We’re going to cover how long squirrels have been kept as pets, the types of squirrels kept as pets, what old literature says about keeping squirrels, famous people who had squirrels as pets, and the MOAPH squirrel cage collection.
april ARTICLES
The Passing of A Legend – Rosario LaCorte: 1929-2024
The Resurrection of the London Fancy Canary
My Life in the Pet Industry – Part 1
Pet Keeping in 1797 Germany – Chapter 3 Part 1
The World’s Largest Pet Shop
Tropical Fish Progress
Tropi-Cure Booth Biggest Hit At Chicago’s United Pet Trade Show
Aquarium Stock Corner Aquarium
September 1929 Pet Shop News Magazine Cover
Tropical Fish Breeders of America 1955 Comic
Rotastak Hamster Habitat 1975 Ad
1937 National Pet Supply Canary Ad
1974 Penn Plax SP Pump Ad
1974 AquaMod Inc. Aquarium Ad
Cambridge Aquarium Society 1967-1968 Fish Ribbons (England)
Hackney Haringey Show Awards (England)
Norwalk Aquarium Society 1959 Trophy
Hear Amazing Snookie Welch Two Year Old Talking Parakeet 500 Word Vocabulary
Collectors of Aquarium Literature – Number 20 October 1987
Recent Items for Sale
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Treasure Chest Aquarium
$2,000.00 -
Peerless Aquarium Reproduction with Stand and LED Outfitted Hood
$1,900.00 -
Jewel Aquarium with Stand and Light
$1,800.00 -
Verona Artistic Metal Eclipse Fishbowl Stand with Original Vaseline Bowl
$1,500.00 -
Arts & Crafts Seahorse Stand with Original Vaseline Bowl
$1,500.00 -
Beautiful Antique Art Deco Frankart Floor Fishbowl Stand VERY RARE!!!!
$1,500.00 -
Water Nymph Aquarium Stand (1920s Era) with Custom Aquarium (Modern)
$1,250.00 -
Sale!
1920’s Czechoslovakian Pottery of a Boy & His Dog
$1,250.00
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