John Forti Book Signing Join us on Wednesday, October 27 from 5:30 to 7pm to meet local legend and gardening master John Forti! He’ll be on hand to sign copies of his latest book, The Heirloom Gardner: Traditional Plants and Skills for the Modern World. Please note that for large, indoor gatherings such as these, we are requiring…
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Get Your Copy of “Point of Graves” Signed by the Author!
Thursday, October 7 at 5:30pm J. Dennis Robinson will be here to sign copies of his new, thrilling murder mystery that takes place in Portsmouth (and features our very own John Paul Jones House!) Can’t make it? Get your copy at the online Museum Shop. We’ll also be announcing the winners of this year’s Young Writer’s Contest and…
Celebrating the Fall!
So Many Local Artists Will Be Here for Exhibition Opening Reception! Join us 5:30–8:00 pm on Friday, October 1, to open our fall exhibitions! We’ll have no fewer than SIX photographers in house, whose work is featured in the “New Hampshire Now” exhibition: Dan GingrasDavid MurrayEffie MalleyKen GoldmanPeter E. RandallMichael Sterling Plus, our five local…
Coming October 1: “Abstracting the Seacoast”
Five Local Painters’ Explore Our Landscape Opening October 1, Tom Glover, Peter Cady, Brian Chu, Dustan Knight, and Barbara Adams will share work created over the past two years. They worked together to find new ways of portraying their appreciation for this unique costal area in five highly individual styles. Red Dot Sale in the…
NH Now: A Photographic Diary of Life in the Granite State
October 1, 2021–December 23, 2021 Opening reception October 1, 2021, 5:30pm New Hampshire Now is a two-year project to photographically record life in New Hampshire. Nearly 50 photographers traveled throughout the state between 2018 and 2020, making thousands of images that collectively create a twenty-first-century portrait of the people, places, culture, and events in New…
Final Days!
This is your very last chance to see our amazing exhibitions, “Twilight of American Impressionism” and “Don Gorvett: Working Waterfronts” before they close THIS SUNDAY, 9/12, at 5pm! New Hampshire Now:A Photographic Diary of Life in the Granite State Opening October 1 at eight locations across, “New Hampshire Now: A Photographic Diary of the Granite State”! This…
Time Is Running Out!
“Working Waterfronts” and “Twilight of American Impressionism” CLOSE after 9/12! If you haven’t stopped by to see our exhibitions, you’ve only got a couple more weeks! Don’t miss out! Robin Albert Named Chamber Collaborative of Greater Portsmouth’s Volunteer of the Year! Our own Robin Albert was named volunteer of the year by the Chamber Collaborative…
July 2 Free Admission & Open until 8pm
Retro Roadtripper Raffle! Tomorrow evening only! Get 10% off one of our fun Portsmouth stemless wine glasses at Art ‘Round Town tomorrow between 5 and 8pm – and use it on the spot for a free sip of vino Our featured artist this month for Art ‘Round Town is Josh Hrehovcik! He’ll be in the Museum Shop from…
“Portsmouth Treasures” Exhibition Celebrating 100 Years of Saving History at the John Paul Jones House
The John Paul Jones Historic House Museum opened to the public in 1920, and to celebrate (only slightly belatedly) its centennial, we’ve put on a display of the incredibly wide variety of objects the Portsmouth Historical Society collects. A “birdcage” Windsor rocking chair, portraits of local “clothier” Benjamin Cheever and his wife Mary, an 1813 map of Portsmouth’s “compact” downtown region, a circular maple table that once belonged to an enslaved woman, a baseball bat from a losing game in 1866, a 1660 embroidered mirror, a top hat, miniature paintings, a purloined sword, memorabilia of ale-maker Frank Jones, and “Uncle Billy’s Sunday Leg,” worn (for Sunday best only) by William Dunn after he lost his leg in the war of 1812.
Opening April 2, 2021
“Twilight of American Impressionism: Alice Ruggles Sohier and Frederick A. Bosley” “Twilight of American Impressionism” showcases the largely unsung talents of Alice Ruggles Sohier and Frederick A. Bosley, two American impressionists working at a time when realistic art was falling out of fashion and abstract art was in vogue. These two artists created works of…