Museums and Galleries
Dartmouth region is home to fine art and Native American history museums
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Dartmouth, NH
Hood Museum of Art
6 East Wheelock Street - at Dartmouth College 603-646-280816,000 square feet of gallery space that explores art from cultures across the globe. Explore one of the oldest and largest collections, with over 67,000 objects, of any college or university museum in the United States. Among the museum's most important holdings are six Assyrian stone reliefs from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II (about 900 BCE) and the remarkable fresco by José Clemente Orozco titled "The Epic of American Civilization" (1932–34), which is now a National Historic Landmark.
Hours: Year-round, Wednesday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thursday-Friday, 11 a.m.–8 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; closed Monday and Tuesday. Admission: Free.
Charlestown, NH
The Fort at No.4 Living History Museum
267 Springfield Road (Route 11) 603-826-5700Travel back in time to Charlestown, New Hampshire in the 1740's to visit an authentically reconstructed settlement. Tour with guides dressed as original settlers of No. 4. Demonstrations of hearth cooking, musket firings, military drills and much more are conducted daily.
Hours: June-October, Wednesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Admission: Seniors age 55 and older, $7; adults, $10; youths age 13-17, $7; Children age 6-12, $5.
Information: www.fortat4.org.
Cornish, NH
Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site
139 Saint Gaudens Road 603-675-2175This beautiful home, studio and property also functions as a museum and gallery of the works of American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, creator of 150 works of art, including the Standing Lincoln monument and the 1907 $20 gold piece is considered America's most beautiful coin.
Enfield, NH
Enfield Shaker Museum
24 Caleb Dyer Lane / 447 Route 4A 603-632-4346This living history museum displays and explains the lives of the Shakers, who lived on and operated a farming community of this land for 200 years. Exhibits and events welcome visitors to understand the Shakers’ communal, idealistic way of life. There is a museum store.
Warner, NH
Mt Kearsarge Indian Museum
18 Highlawn Road 603-456-2600A respect for the earth and all living things is central to the Native American way of life and this is reflected throughout Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, situated on 12.5-acres in Warner, NH. Inside the Museum, exhibits allow visitors to travel through time and space - displaying artifacts and presenting information on prehistoric to contemporary Native Americans from every corner of the North American continent. MKIM - one circle, 1000 stories. Experience it!
Hours: Nov 1- April 30 Fridays and Saturdays. 10am-4pm. May 1 – Oct 31, open 7 days a week, 10am – 4pm.