The Thirty-First Annual Portsmouth Athenæum Pot-Luck Picnic will be held in the tent (rain or shine!) on the grounds of the Seacoast Science Center at Odiorne Point State Park, Rye, NH. Members, please bring a dish to share by your last name: A - E: Main Dish F - K: Main Dish L - Q: […]
Update: This program is now full, but you can join the wait list until August 14, 2024. Please send an email to events@portsmouthathenaeum.org including your full name (as it appears on a government issued identification), home street address, age, and a statement that you are a US citizen. This personal information is needed for security […]
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.
The Current Events Lecture Series features a conversation with new Athenaeum subscriber John Roese, Chief Technology Officer of Dell Computers, discussing the rapidly changing landscape of “Artificial Intelligence: the Technologies and the Challenges.” A reception will follow the discussion.Program is part of the 2024 Current Events Series, and it begins at 5:30 p.m. in the […]
Polling expert, David W. Moore presents, Misreading the Public: The Failed Promise of Public Opinion Polling. He will explore the origins of “scientific” public opinion polling, with George Gallup being the iconic representative of the early pollsters whose goal was to provide the voice of the people between elections. Since then, it has become obvious that […]
Piano Trio Bäverstam will be the featured performer at the upcoming concert presented by Portsmouth Athenaeum’s ArtsAthenaeum classical music series at St. John's Episcopal Church in Portsmouth. Sebastian Bäverstam recently formed the Trio with Jean Huang Bäverstam and Constantine Finehouse. Sebastian Bäverstam, cellist and composer, has been praised by critic Dennis Rooney in The Strad […]
The first-floor Sawtelle Reading Room in the 1805 building is open for tours. Donations accepted.
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 […]
