The Shaw Research Library & Randall Gallery are open Tuesday through Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m.
Please wear a mask during your visit to the Athenaeum.
UPCOMING EVENTS
- December 9, 2021
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Reading Room Tour
December 9, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Tour the historic first-floor Reading Room. Donations suggested.
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CANCELED: Author Mike Dater
December 9, 2021 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USATHIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE
Proprietor Mike Dater will give a talk and sign copies of his newest book, The Godawful Years: He Came, He Stole, He Wrecked: A Survey of the Bedlam. Compiled in part from Mr. Dater’s cartoons in The New Hampshire Gazette, the book demonstrates the author’s unique talent for expressing horror through humor.
This is an in-person event, and masks are required.
To sign up for this in-person event, please call 603-431-2538 or email info@portsmouthathenaeum.org.
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HOURS
Shaw Research Library &
Randall Gallery
Tuesday through Saturday
1 to 4 p.m.
EXPLORE THE ARCHIVES
The Athenæum houses an outstanding collection of documents and artifacts relating to local history. It also preserves what is undoubtedly the finest collection in the state of materials relating to the history of New Hampshire’s only major seaport.
Jane C. Nylander, Author of “The Best Ever! Parades in New England, 1788-1940”
Proprietor Jane C. Nylander will give a brief talk in the Sawtelle Reading Room and sign copies of her new book: The Best Ever! Parades in New England, 1788 -1940.
Meredith Hall, Author of Beneficence
Proprietor Elizabeth Howard, host of the Short Fuse Podcast, will be in conversation with local author Meredith Hall discussing her new novel Beneficence on Tuesday, November 30.
John Forti, the Heirloom Gardener
Join us for a virtual talk by John Forti from his new book The Heirloom Gardener: Traditional Plants and Skills for the Modern World. Mr. Forti is a garden historian, horticulturist, and ethnobotanist. He has directed gardens for Plimoth Plantation Museum, Strawberry Banke Museum, Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and Bedrock Gardens.
We, the Proprietors of the Portsmouth Athenaeum, associate to promote learning and advance useful knowledge among our constituents and the wider community by facilitating convivial interchange and intellectual discourse; maintaining our historic buildings and library; and collecting and preserving materials relevant to the history and culture of Portsmouth and the Piscataqua Region.