Antilles Trading Company

Antilles Trading Company, formally listed as Antilles Trading Company Pirate Museum and Store, occupies a storefront at 641 Brevard Avenue toward the southern end of Historic Cocoa Village’s main shopping strip. As its full name suggests, the business combines a retail shop with a small museum, built around a pirate and maritime trading theme that fits naturally with Cocoa’s location on the Indian River, a waterway with its own long history of Florida coastal trade and navigation.

Hybrid museum and store businesses give visitors a reason to stop in beyond a straightforward shopping errand, since browsing museum style exhibits alongside merchandise for sale creates a different kind of visit than a typical gift shop, closer to what families often look for when exploring a historic downtown district with kids in tow. Cocoa Village’s own history as a river trading town going back roughly a century and a half gives a pirate and maritime themed shop a genuine, if playful, connection to the area’s actual past as a commercial port on the Indian River Lagoon.

The shop is registered as pet friendly with the Historic Cocoa Village Main Street organization, so visitors exploring the district with a dog are welcome inside. Brevard Avenue, where Antilles Trading Company is located, runs the length of the historic core and connects the business to the rest of the village’s shops, restaurants, and Cocoa Riverfront Park a short walk away along the river itself.

Antilles Trading Company can be reached at 321-313-5886 or by email, and it maintains its own website at antillestradingcompany.com along with dedicated Facebook and Instagram accounts for previewing merchandise and exhibits before a visit. Its listing in the city’s official Historic Cocoa Village Main Street directory confirms it as an independently owned business, and its combination of retail and small museum exhibits makes it one of the more family oriented, browse for a while stops among the village’s specialty shops.

Its spot toward the south end of Brevard Avenue puts it near the record shop, doll boutique, and clothing stores on the same stretch, making it easy to fold into a longer walk through that part of the village rather than a single stand alone stop. For visitors combining a Cocoa Village trip with a broader Space Coast vacation, the maritime theme gives the shop an obvious tie in to the area’s beaches and river history that a generic gift shop would not offer.