Adopt An Artifact
Adopt an Artifact returns with a powerful purpose: to help bring our 2026 exhibition, “Revolutionary Portsmouth” to life at the historic John Paul Jones House. This special exhibition, presented for the nation’s 250th anniversary, will explore the everyday people—Loyalist and Patriot, free and enslaved—who made Portsmouth revolutionary.
With a significant drop in federal and state funding, producing exhibitions has become increasingly challenging. Adopt an Artifact gives you a direct way to support the research, care, and presentation of these objects. Funds raised will go toward protective display cases, custom mounts, interpretive labels, and the many behind-the-scenes materials needed to share this history with care and integrity.
Our 2025 Adopt an Artifact is now closed.
Thank you for Adopting an Artifact
A special thank you to the following individuals who have adopted an item from our collection:
in 2025
- Kimberly Alexander & Dane Morrison
- Anonymous
- Colleen Bean & Ceal Anderson
- Holly Burt
- Julie Gowen Fehrnstrom
- Ken Goldman & Barbara Sadick
- Nancy Hammond
- Ann Hartman
- Mary Ellen & Walter Hoerman
- Carolina Obarrio Langdon
- Charlie & Kathy Liolios in honor of Molly Liolos
- Ed & Fran Mallon
- Ellen & Walter Patton
- Nancy Pearson
- Michael Reilly
- Brenda Shanley
- Lucinda Spaney
- Matt Stolpe
- Ursula Wright
in 2024
- Diane Fagan Affleck
- Kimberly Alexander & Dane Morrison
- Karen Battles & James Shanley
- Colleen Bean & Ceal Anderson
- Stephen Buczko
- Richard Candee
- Margaret L Clarke
- George Dumas
- Ken Goldman & Barbara Sadick
- Nancy Hammond
- Mary Ellen & Walter Hoerman
- Charlie & Kathy Liolios in honor of Molly Liolos
- Jason Moody
- Julia Phelps
- Clare Purcell
- Pat Remick
- Jane & Fred Reynolds
- Carol Seely
- Martha Shanley
- Theresa & James Terry
Baseball
Cane
Funeral Gloves
Ostrich Fan
Portrait of Sarah H March
Ribbon Banner
Ruth Blay Quilt
Slippers
Surveyor's Compass
Ostrich Cape
Pease Diorama
PHS Football Team
Portrait of Joseph Haven
Toy Cradle
Opal Fan
Vaughan Silhouette
in 2023
- Diane Fagan Affleck
- Robin Albert
- Ceal Anderson
- in honor of Patricia Brunette
- Sharon Churchill
- Margaret L Clarke
- in honor of Anna Herrera
- Ellen Fineberg & Vincent Lombardi
- Tom Kaufhold
- in honor of Molly Liolios
- Karen McDonnell
- Ellen & Walt Patton
- Gordon Stone
- Tammi Truax
- Elizabeth Valway
Bodice
Doll
Tray
Portrait of an Unknown Man
Hair Wreath
Pitcher
Child's Dress
