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Portrait Exhibit Closes Saturday

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Nov 1, 2018 | Announcements, Exhibits

It’s the final two days to see the Portsmouth Athenaeum’s exhibition Painting Portsmouth’s Notables:  1750-1850.  Three new faces joined the notables at the half-way point of the exhibition with a special loan from the Newington Historical Society’s Old...

Latest Exhibit Opens Friday

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jul 10, 2018 | Announcements, Events, Exhibits

Friday, July 13, 2018 5 to 7 p.m. Opening Reception Research Library / Randall Gallery   Friday the 13th is a lucky day for those who love portraiture! The Athenaeum celebrates the latest exhibit Painting Portsmouth Notables: 1750-1850 with an opening reception...

Art ‘Round Town Tonight!

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | May 4, 2018 | Announcements, Events, Exhibits

Friday, May 4, 2018 5 – 8 p.m. Randall Gallery   May the Fourth be with you tonight as you brave the many galaxies, er, the many galleries during Art ‘Round Town in Portsmouth. Leave your tauntauns, speeders and x-wings outside and step into the...

Hawthorne Exhibit Opening Reception!

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Mar 15, 2018 | Announcements, Exhibits

Friday, March 16, 2018 5:00-7:00 p.m. Third-Floor Randall Gallery Come to the opening reception for What Hawthorne Read, a traveling exhibit from the Salem Athenaeum in Salem, MA. Curator Elaine von Bruns explores the circulation records and the hundreds of books...

Gallery Talk on “Treasures of the Athenaeum, Part IV”

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Oct 5, 2017 | Announcements, Events, Exhibits

Saturday, October 7, 2017 11 a.m. Join Curator Richard Candee to learn how the Athenaeum became what it is today as he focuses on key elements from his exhibit “Treasures of the Athenaeum Part IV: Renewal, Growth, and a Public Research Library, 1980 –...
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Franklin Club
Franklin Club
September 3, 2025    
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Portsmouth Athenaeum
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Franklin Club, Sawtelle Reading Room
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 [...]
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Art 'Round Town for the exhibit "Portsmouth in the Age of Jonathan Mitchel Sewall"
Art 'Round Town for the exhibit "Portsmouth in the Age of Jonathan Mitchel Sewall"
September 5, 2025    
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Portsmouth Athenaeum
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Art 'Round Town, Exhibits, Jonathan Mitchel Sewall 1748-1808, Portsmouth in the Age of Jonathan Mitchel Sewall, Randall Gallery
Please join us for Art 'Round Town for our latest exhibit, "Portsmouth in the Age of Jonathan Mitchel Sewall (c.1770-1808)," curated by Nancy Hammond in [...]
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2025 Lecture Series: “The Lady Pepperrell House and Gardens” with Anne Mankin Masury
2025 Lecture Series: “The Lady Pepperrell House and Gardens”  with Anne Mankin Masury
September 17, 2025    
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Portsmouth Athenaeum
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2025 Lecture Series: Beauty on the Seacoast and Beyond, Anne Mankin Masury, Architecture and Gardens, Art Architecture and Gardens, Gardens, Horticulture, Kittery Point, Lady Pepperrell House, Maine, Shaw Research Library
Just across the Piscataqua, the Lady Pepperrell House and Gardens of Kittery Point is noted as one of the most high style pre-Revolutionary Georgian houses [...]
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2025 Current Events Lecture Series: "The Heat is on: Climate Changes Deadly Toll on Human Health"
2025 Current Events Lecture Series: "The Heat is on: Climate Changes Deadly Toll on Human Health"
September 25, 2025    
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Portsmouth Athenaeum
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2025 Current Event Series, Climate Change, Public Health, Rich DiPentima, Shaw Research Library
The Current Events Lecture Series presents the "The Heat is on: Climate Changes Deadly Toll on Human Health" with Rich DiPentima. Rich is a proprietor [...]
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2025 PACM Series: Balourdet String Quartet
2025 PACM Series: Balourdet String Quartet
September 28, 2025    
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2025 PACM Concert Series, Balourdet String Quartet, Concerts, South Church
Winners of the 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Cleveland Quartet Award, the Balourdet String Quartet is known for its fearless creativity and tight-knit [...]
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Franklin Club
Franklin Club
October 1, 2025    
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Portsmouth Athenaeum
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Franklin Club, Sawtelle Reading Room
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 [...]
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Art 'Round Town for the exhibit "Portsmouth in the Age of Jonathan Mitchel Sewall"
Art 'Round Town for the exhibit "Portsmouth in the Age of Jonathan Mitchel Sewall"
October 3, 2025    
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Portsmouth Athenaeum
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Art 'Round Town, Exhibits, Jonathan Mitchel Sewall 1748-1808, Portsmouth in the Age of Jonathan Mitchel Sewall, Randall Gallery
Please join us for Art 'Round Town for our latest exhibit, "Portsmouth in the Age of Jonathan Mitchel Sewall (c.1770-1808)," curated by Nancy Hammond in [...]
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Franklin Club
Franklin Club
3 Sep 25
Portsmouth
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Art 'Round Town for the exhibit "Portsmouth in the Age of Jonathan Mitchel Sewall"
Art 'Round Town for the exhibit "Portsmouth in the Age of Jonathan Mitchel Sewall"
5 Sep 25
Portsmouth
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2025 Lecture Series: “The Lady Pepperrell House and Gardens”  with Anne Mankin Masury
2025 Lecture Series: “The Lady Pepperrell House and Gardens” with Anne Mankin Masury
17 Sep 25
Portsmouth
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2025 Current Events Lecture Series: "The Heat is on: Climate Changes Deadly Toll on Human Health"
2025 Current Events Lecture Series: "The Heat is on: Climate Changes Deadly Toll on Human Health"
25 Sep 25
Portsmouth
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2025 PACM Series: Balourdet String Quartet
2025 PACM Series: Balourdet String Quartet
28 Sep 25
Portsmouth
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Franklin Club
Franklin Club
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Portsmouth
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Art 'Round Town for the exhibit "Portsmouth in the Age of Jonathan Mitchel Sewall"
Art 'Round Town for the exhibit "Portsmouth in the Age of Jonathan Mitchel Sewall"
3 Oct 25
Portsmouth

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