Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the most epic environmental battle in the Seacoast when a small group of passionate people defeated a proposed oil refinery in Great Bay that would have irrevocably changed our region. What can we learn from this story to help us confront today’s environmental threats?Please join the Great Bay-Piscataqua Waterkeeper and […]
The Portsmouth Athenaeum Chamber Music presents an ArtsAtheneaum Concert featuring the UNH-based trio, "The Like Minds Ensemble" with Peggy Vagts, flute; Margaret Herlehy, oboe; and Janet Polk, bassoon. This free concert will be on the first-floor Sawtelle Reading Room at the Athenaeum. Space is very limited. To reserve your seat(s), online registration is below. If unable to […]
The Junto, also known as the Leather Apron Club, was a club for mutual improvement established in 1727 by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia. The Leather Apron Club's purpose was to debate questions of morals, politics, and natural philosophy, and to exchange knowledge of business affairs. The Athenaeum's newly formed Franklin Club was created with this […]
The first-floor Sawtelle Reading Room in the 1805 building is open for tours. Donations accepted.
Please join us during Art 'Round Town for our current exhibit "First in the Nation: New Hampshire Primaries – 1920-2020" in the third-floor Randall Gallery.
A New Englander by birth and formal education, an internationalist by vocation and informal education, Lou Salome met John Lamson by following two forks in the road that led to the same junction; the first took him to the Athenaeum; the other to the bosom of RAIN for the Sahel and Sahara. John was one […]
The Current Events Lecture Series features Emily Schmall, New York Times correspondent on South Asia talking about: “The Role of the Media and the Modi PR Machine.” Emily Schmall is an award-winning correspondent for The New York Times, based in Chicago. She was previously a South Asia correspondent for The Times, where she covered, among […]
The first-floor Sawtelle Reading Room in the 1805 building is open for tours. Donations accepted.
Granite State Politics and First-in-the-Nation Presidential Primary: A Journalist's Perspective will be presented by James Pindell who will relate some of his experiences in reporting on New Hampshire politics and on election campaigning in the State. In particular, Mr. Pindell will address the differences he sees between NH voters and those in other states and […]
The first-floor Sawtelle Reading Room in the 1805 building is open for tours. Donations accepted.