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Top 8 NARM locations in New Hampshire
byShiry
Live update: Updated February 15, 2022Copy link
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PEOPLE ARE SAYING:
ShiryThe New Hampshire Historical Society’s 1911 headquarters building, located in the heart of the capital city, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is home to exhibitions about New Hampshire history, art, and culture. Exhibitions showcase hundreds of objects, photographs, and documents, including Native American artifacts; items from the Revolutionary period through the Civil War and World War II; the original 1818 eagle that once sat atop the state capitol; portraits of notable New Hampshire residents including Franklin Pierce and Daniel Webster; early furniture, silver, and other decorative arts; and 19th-century White Mountain landscape paintings.
2. AVA Gallery and Art Center
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryAVA Gallery and Art Center (Alliance for the Visual Arts) is dedicated to promoting the visual arts through exhibitions and educational programs that nurture, support and challenge New England artists, and to providing art classes for children, teens and adults of all levels and abilities. AVA’s programs—including special events that foster interaction among artists, patrons of the arts and the community, and which emphasize sustainability—are dedicated to recognizing the ways in which art enriches our lives.
3. Mariposa Museum & World Culture Center
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe Mariposa Museum & World Culture Center is a ‘hands-on’ museum of artifacts from around the world, located in the center of Peterborough in the historic Baptist Church building. We celebrate other cultures with regional exhibitions, performances and programs. Adults and families can enjoy the museum on their own “hands-on” and can tour the exhibits with visual and audio aides. We have a robust school program that allows children from area schools to come as a class and learn “interactively” about other cultures or cultural holidays. Twice a year we present a Senior Series dedicated to older adults in the region.
4. New Hampshire Telephone Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe New Hampshire Telephone Museum houses a tangible history of telecommunications which can be viewed via guided or self-guided tours. Our knowledgeable staff provides engaging commentary highlighting important moments in telephone history, such as the race to the patent office, the undertaker who invented the dial system, and much more.
5. Currier Museum of Art
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryVisit the Currier to see American and European art from the 12th century to current day including painting, sculpture, glass, and ceramics. Galleries showcase the collection of over 11,000 objects, including works by Picasso, Matisse, Monet, O'Keeffe, and Warhol. Enjoy engaging exhibitions, dynamic programs for all ages, a complete schedule of studio art classes at the Art Center, and tours of the galleries. Make reservations to tour the Zimmerman House, the only Frank Lloyd Wright Designed home in New England that is open for public tours. Stay for lunch in the light-filled Winter Garden Cafe and after your visit stop by the shop for a great selection of art-related merchandise and items from local artists. Children 12 and under are free. Free to New Hampshire residents every Saturday 10 a.m. - noon.
6. Museum of the White Mountains
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe Museum of the White Mountains (MWM) is Plymouth State University’s (PSU) only teaching museum. Presenting six exhibitions per year in the Museum’s Main Gallery, the MWM Exhibition Program also presents five exhibitions in PSU’s Silver Center for the Arts Lobby Gallery. The Museum opened in 2013 as a free admission, public, year-round museum and has served since then to explore and present the White Mountains’ rich history, arts, culture, and promising future via a variety of exhibitions, lectures, workshops, and educational activities for all ages.
7. Portsmouth Historical Society
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe mission of Portsmouth Historical Society is to, “Champion the history, arts and culture of the Portsmouth Region through acquisitions, preservation, museum exhibitions, programs and publications.” The Portsmouth Historical Society, which celebrated its centennial in 2017, administers two facilities in the west end of the heart of downtown, including Discover Portsmouth—a large historic structure featuring exhibition galleries, a museum shop, and a welcome center, and the historic 1758 John Paul Jones House (pictured) and Garden, a National Historic Landmark that was saved from demolition in 1917, and houses exhibitions of the Society’s permanent collections including Portsmouth memorabilia, furniture, textiles and other material culture. The Society also hosts two other nonprofits under its banner: Portsmouth Advocates, the city’s architectural preservation group; and Portsmouth Marine Society Press, our nonprofit publishing arm which has 38 titles to date.
8. Enfield Shaker Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryEnfield Shaker Museum is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational institution dedicated to interpreting and preserving the complex history of the Enfield Shaker Village and the Missionaries of La Salette.
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