Learn about the best parks, attractions, museums, historic landmarks, tours, and other things to do in Portsmouth NH and the surrounding Seacoast area.
The USS Albacore, the prototype for modern submarines, was built in Portsmouth and has been converted into a museum.
The site of the New Hampshire Treasury during the American Revolution, this museum is home to an original broadside of the Declaration of Independence and early drafts of the U.S. Constitution.
Art Up Front Street is Exeter, New Hampshire’s first collective of working artists’ studios. We are painters, designers, assemblage artists, digital artists, and creatives. We make...
The Children’s Museum of New Hampshire offers two floors of interactive, hands-on exhibits where families can explore.
Education center for the Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Interactive exhibit room, touch tank, and boardwalk.
For centuries, sailing barges connected up-river Seacoast to Portsmouth. The last of these "gundalows" disappeared decades ago, but a Seacoast nonprofit offers educational programs, tours and sailing trips aboard a full-scale replica, the Piscataqua.
The most popular beach in the region, Hampton Beach has been drawing visitors by the hundreds of thousands since the turn of the century. The beach is extremely wide and the water warm. Bath house and lifeguards in season. Located on Route 1A, Hampton.
The picturesque and history-filled Isles of Shoals, six miles off the New Hampshire coast, are a popular day trip.
The Museum of New Art (MONA) hosts the latest trends in contemporary art in stunning downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire. MONA is a non-collecting museum that...
Picturesque and accessible Cape Neddick Lighthouse (The Nubble) in York Beach, Maine, draws thousands of visitors each year.
Discover Portsmouth is a central gateway to the historical, cultural and artistic sites and venues around greater Portsmouth. Open April 1 thru December 23.
Portsmouth's 10-acre waterfront park with flower gardens and a summer arts festival.
The Prescott Park Arts Festival has presented music, art, theater, and dance on the banks of the Piscataqua River since 1974. Located on 3.5 acres of...
The Seacoast Science Center is a non-profit marine environmental organization located on the rocky coast of historic Odiorne Point State Park. The center features live animals of the Gulf of Maine, indoor touch tanks, and hands-on exhibits about life in and around the ocean.
Strawbery Banke Museum illustrates the lives of historic New Englander with restored homes from four centuries and working artisans.
The Dance Hall Kittery curates a wide and wild range of globally sourced musical influence and is the Seacoast’s premier spot for an intimate yet...
New Hampshire's oldest theater offering world-class entertainment and films year-round.
New England's largest water park.