Museum of the Dog

Museum of the Dog’s executive director Alan Fausel demonstrates the basic dog training interactive kiosk with a virtual puppy.   (Mary Altaffer/AP )

A British Edwardian-style doghouse for a Chihuahua.   (Mary Altaffer/AP )

Rosalind Trigg’s “Whitehall at Westminster” on display at the Museum of the Dog.   (Mary Altaffer/AP )

Classical paintings of dogs on display at the Museum of the Dog.   (Mary Altaffer/AP )

A Victorian child’s dog cart on display.   (Mary Altaffer/AP )

Merchandise with the Museum of the Dog’s logo for sale at the museum store in New York.   (Mary Altaffer/AP )

Museum of the Dog’s executive director Alan Fausel smiles after finding his dog breed match at the “Find Your Match” interactive kiosk during a tour of the New York museum.   (Mary Altaffer/AP )

A terra-cotta dog paw print dating to the Roman Empire on display.   (Mary Altaffer/AP )

A skeleton of a dog who died in 1888 is on display at the new Museum of the Dog in New York City. He was preserved because he was considered a perfect specimen of a fox terrier.   (Mary Altaffer/AP )

A wall of movie posters celebrating canine stars on display at the Museum of the Dog in New York.   (Mary Altaffer/AP )

The puppy section of the Museum of the Dog’s library.   (Mary Altaffer/AP )

An American WWII messenger collar, foreground, on display next to other spike collars at the Museum of the Dog in New York.   (Mary Altaffer/AP )

“Millie on the South Lawn” by Christine Merrill, alongside a letter from former first lady Barbara Bush, on display at the Museum of the Dog.   (Mary Altaffer/AP )

A detail of the letter former first lady Barbara Bush wrote to the Museum of the Dog on the occasion of its opening in 1990, on display in New York. The collection features paintings of White House dogs, including one of President George H.W. Bush’s English springer spaniels, Millie.   (Mary Altaffer/AP )

A “Find Your Match” interactive kiosk at the new Museum of the Dog in New York City takes visitors’ pictures and then matches their photo with a dog breed that resembles them. Writer Beth Harpaz was paired with a grand bassett griffon Vendeen.   (Beth J. Harpaz/for the Chicago Tribune)