The Rothschild Petersen Patent Model Museum

Welcome: The Rothschild Petersen Patent Model Museum is the largest privately-owned collection of United States patent models in the world. Containing nearly 4,000 patent models and related documents, the collection spans America's Industrial Revolution. Alan Rothschild eventually hopes to establish a national Patent Model Museum, open to the public. Step inside to discover the wonders of American ingenuity!

Rosie Still Advising Inventors After 100 Years: Competition, as Rosie tells the story, comes in strange disguises, and too often easily missed. Here's my take.

Tuesday, December 21, 2004
by: Donald Grant Kelly
If Patent Models Could Talk (and perhaps they do) by Don Kelly: * Don Kelly is Executive Director and Chief Executive of the Rothschild Patent Model Museum and Invention Center.
A Yahoo! Pick: The Rothschild Petersen web site has been chosen as a Yahoo! Pick of the Week!

The Model of the Month for July is "Machine for Making Toy Torpedoes." Read more...

Articles: Throughout history, many articles have been published about patent models and the inventors behind them.

Exhibits on Loan: Click here to find out more about the models that are on exhibit.