The third-floor Shaw Research Library and Randall Gallery are open to the public from 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday thru Saturday. For elevator access, please call (603) 431-2538.
Check our calendar for tours of the first-floor Sawtelle Reading Room.
UPCOMING EVENTS
- April 25, 2024
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Great Bay Book Group Discussion with author David W. Moore
April 25, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
3S Artspace, 319 Vaughan St, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USACelebrate 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 Great Bay Stewards in partnership with 3S Artspace for a book group discussion at 3S with David W. Moore (author of Small Town, Big Oil - The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the Richest Man in the World-And Won), activists at the center of the story in the 1970s, and those at the forefront of environmental advocacy in our region today.
Melissa Paly, the Conservation Law Foundation’s Great Bay Water Keeper and the Great Bay Stewards serves as host for the book discussion and features David Moore, author of Small Town, Big Oil; Athenaeum member Dudley Dudley, former Durham State Representative; Nancy Sandberg, former Chair of Save Our Shores; Meredith Bennett, daughter of Phyliss Bennett, publisher of Publick Occurences; Kalle Matso, Director of Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership; Amanda Gokee, Climate Reporter, Boston Globe; Christina Dubin, Seacoast Climate Action Now and Beyond Plastics; and others TBA.
More information here: https://www.3sarts.org/events/287796203898.
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- April 26, 2024
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ArtsAthenaeum Concert "The Like Minds Ensemble"
April 26, 2024 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USAThe 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.
https://portsmouthathenaeum.org/event/artsathenaeum-concert-the-like-minds-ensemble/
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HOURS
Shaw Research Library &
Randall Gallery
Tuesday through Saturday
1 to 4 p.m.
Reading Room Tours
Volunteer Dependent
Saturdays &
Thursdays
1 to 2 p.m.
(Check our calendar.)
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Upcoming Athenaeum Concert Dates
SAVE THE DATES from the Athenaeum Performance Committee ArtsAthenaeum Concert with "The Like Minds Ensemble" Friday, April 26, 2024 7:30 p.m. Sawtelle Reading Room The Portsmouth Athenaeum Chamber Music offers this ArtsAtheneaum Concert featuring the...
PROGRAM FULL! The Great Escape and Emigration of Scientists from Totalitarian Europe 1933-1943 with Dr. Fred Schubert
Thursday, March 28, 2024 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library The personal stories and work of some scientists, and a surgeon, who left their lives behind and contributed important work in adopted countries during a most turbulent period. As a consequence, continental...