Museum of New Hampshire History

I enjoy visiting the Museum of New Hampshire History and try to visit at least once a year. It’s a pleasant surprise to see such well organized displays and documentation along with very helpful tour people always standing by ready to answer questions and offer additional information. A great place to visit for the whole family.

Decent Little Museum. Nice exhibits and a variety of cool stuff about NH. The observatory thing at the top is really cool. Gives you an amazing view of all of Concord. Great pictures to be taken up there.
It is very cheaply priced and worth the trip. Also there is a great Deli in the courtyard in front of the museum. Amazing sandwiches there.

I visited this place last year in the spring sometime. It is not too far and close to shopping and restaurants. I must say that I was pleasantly surprised about this museum. A bit of everything and even the special exhibit was quite interesting on America’s Kitchens. I especially loved the kiddy section where you can pretend that you are in a old country store shopping. There is also a cool observatory deck to teach you about forest fires, etc. Volunteers were great and explained about rural life back in the days on the first floor. Afterwards, you can visit downtown Concord with some nice quaint stores. Plus, the state capitol is just across the street. We just had bagel sandwiches for lunch down the street at the Works Bakery Café. I tried a honey bear smoothie which was especially good. Then, you can stop by the LL Bean factory store not too far away.

For a small museum, it has a nice variety of artifacts which are well-​curated to tell a clear, chronological story of the history of the state. It begins with an Abenaki wigwam in which you can hear a recorded story told by well-​known Abenaki author and storyteller, Joseph Bruchac. There are other interactive and question-​based exhibits throughout. I was sorry to see the Abenaki drop out of the narrative after the colonial period — if the continuing presence of the People of the Dawn were included it would improve this little museum.