Categories include: most creative building materials, most whimsical, most attention to detail, and best in show.
All ballots must be cast in-person at 10 Middle Street.
Take the fun downtown with our scavenger hunt. Collect all the stamps and enter to win a raffle of gift cards and prizes from participating retailers!
Ring in the holiday season at the 32nd Annual Gingerbread House Contest and Exhibition! Once again, we’re filling our galleries and downtown shop windows with sweet holiday goodness.
Make your voice heard. Cast your vote for People’s Choice Awards. Categories include: most creative building materials, most whimsical, most attention to detail, and best in show. All ballots must be cast in-person at 10 Middle Street.
Take the fun downtown with our scavenger hunt. Collect all the stamps and enter to win a raffle of gift cards and prizes from participating retailers!
“Show + Tell,” our celebration of the depth and breadth of local children’s picturebook illustrators reamins open until Friday, December 30. It’s open to the public, and we have many of the publications for sale in the shop that could be signed by the illustrators!
Get a chance to meet the author of The Secret Life of Mary White: Darkness Into Light.
12/22 Gingerbread Exhibition Closes
some houses will remain on display until we close for the season
12/24 Closing at 3 pm
12/25 Closed
12/30 Final Day of the Season
Ring in the holiday season at the 32nd Annual Gingerbread House Contest and Exhibition! Once again, we’re filling our galleries and downtown shop windows with sweet holiday goodness.
Join us on Friday, December 2 from 5:30 to 7:30 to celebrate the season at our Vintage Christmas Kickoff Party. View the exhibition and find out the community judges’ winners for the Gingerbread House Contest.
Make your voice heard. Cast your vote for People’s Choice Awards. Categories include: most creative building materials, most whimsical, most attention to detail, and best in show. All ballots must be cast in-person at 10 Middle Street.
Take the fun downtown with our scavenger hunt. Collect all the stamps and enter to win a raffle of gift cards and prizes from participating retailers!
Get behind-the-scenes insights from “Show + Tell” curator, Tess Feltes.
Get a chance to meet the author of The Secret Life of Mary White: Darkness Into Light.
Gingerbread is back for 2022! Once again, we’re filling our galleries and downtown shop windows with sweet holiday goodness!
The 2022 theme is: fictional places and characters. We are inviting the gingerbreadologisits of Portsmouth and beyond to craft your favorite fictional places and characters —edible materials only, of course!
Join us on Friday, December 2 from 5:30 to 7:30 to celebrate the season at our Vintage Christmas Kickoff Party. View the exhibition and find out the community judges’ winners for the Gingerbread House Contest.
Closing this week: It’s Pastel!, the 14th annual national juried exhibition of the Pastel Society of New Hampshire. Visit before Friday, November 18!
Join two of the artists featured in “Show + Tell,” Jill Weber and Ryan O’Rourke, for a lively discussion about the process of illustrating a book.
Shop online from the comfort of home on Museum Store Sunday. All purchases made on Sunday, November 27 can use the code MSS2022 to receive free shipping.
Get behind-the-scenes insights from “Show + Tell” curator, Tess Feltes.
Gingerbread is back for 2022! Once again, we’re filling our galleries and downtown shop windows with sweet holiday goodness!
The 2022 theme is: fictional places and characters. We are inviting the gingerbreadologisits of Portsmouth and beyond to craft your favorite fictional places and characters —edible materials only, of course!
Join us for a fun morning with children’s book illustrator, Gina Perry! Ages 5+
Get behind-the-scenes insights from “Show + Tell” curator, Tess Feltes.
Join two of the artists featured in “Show + Tell,” Jill Weber and Ryan O’Rourke, for a lively discussion about the process of illustrating a book.
It’s Pastel!, the 14th annual national juried exhibition of the Pastel Society of New Hampshire, opened Saturday, October 22!
