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Visit Us

182 Central Ave.
Dover, NH

603-742-1038

The Keefe House
15 Summer Street
Dover, NH

Mailing Address:

Woodman Museum
PO Box 1916
Dover, NH 03821-1916

Our Hours

Hours of Operation:

Wednesday – 10am – 5pm
Thursday – 10am – 5pm
Friday – 10am – 5pm
Saturday – 10am – 5pm
Sunday – 10am – 5pm

(April – November)

The last museum tour departs at 3:30pm. Please arrive no later than that.

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Today is opening day of our Holiday Festival featu Today is opening day of our Holiday Festival featuring our Artisan Faire and Holiday Light Trail! Stop by the Thom Hindle Gallery at 15 Summer Street Wednesdays-Sunday 10-4pm to find some amazing locally made goods! 
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On Friday and Saturday evenings from 4-6pm enjoy extra hours at the faire AND our FREE Holiday Light Trail out on the grounds!
Come see some of our museum friends on display dur Come see some of our museum friends on display during our Holiday Light Trail opening this Friday from 4-6pm on the Woodman Museum grounds! 
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Admission is FREE but we are asking for food and winter jacket donations to the @dover_childrens_home
“Absolutely THE best experience with my grandson “Absolutely THE best experience with my grandsons. Mark, our tour guide, was fantastic. He tuned into my 10 and 12 year old grandsons and connected with them in a way his mother or I could not. The displays were more than I would have expected. I’ve been to Harvard’s taxidermy and the boys and I were so impressed. I would not overlook this opportunity to spend time with your children/ grandchildren. It was truly impressive!! My daughter was impressed with how much the boys absorbed! I loved it too!”- Cindy 
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Love The Woodman Museum? Giving Tuesday is today! We hope we can count on your support so we can continue to advance and develop passion for History, Nature, and the Arts for years to come! LINK IN BIO!
Happy Thanksgiving from the Woodman Museum! Happy Thanksgiving from the Woodman Museum!
Help us celebrate our final week with our special Help us celebrate our final week with our special “Pay What You Want” admission pricing this week!!! You set your own admission price as you stop by one last time to catch a tour before the museum closes until April 2024.
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Reminder: we are closed Thanksgiving Day! 
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That’s a wrap on our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle That’s a wrap on our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle exhibit! We’re sad to see these events end, but we wanted to share some of our favorite moments with you 😁

We wanted to extend a huge thank you to our signers, Jim Lawson, Rich Woodall, and Steve Lavigne for their time and thank you to @jetpackcomics for making these events possible. Not only did they sponsor the events, but they helped us fill out our giftshop to complement the experience!! 

We loved seeing all your smiles and excitement SO MUCH that we might even have to incorporate something to honor our favorite crime-fighting turtle brothers permanently in the museum 👀

In the mean-time, cowabunga dudes! 😎🐢

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Hale House Continued...

Born in nearby Rochester NH, John Parker Hale is best known as the first avowed Abolitionist Senator in the United States. It is an odd irony that, in the two decades Hale was in the Senate, Dover profited from the manufacture of cotton products that were produced by Southern slave labor. Living in William’s own house, Hale took a solid stand against slavery - a position that earned him enmity from Southern leaders, even a death threat on the Senate floor from a colleague. It also earned Hale a statue in 1892 on the lawn of the state capitol in Concord, NH, where his figure now stands with Daniel Webster, President Franklin Pierce and John Stark.

Today, the collections throughout two of the three floors of the Hale House are arranged into galleries displaying Hale Family artifacts, local and regional history, New England period furniture, fine and decorative arts and more.

Woodman House Continued...

The younger Charles Woodman inherited the estate from his mother. A successful financier and manager of the Strafford Savings Bank, he resided here throughout his life. He married twice: his first wife, Hannah (Coffin) Woodman, died in 1854 and in 1856 he married Annie (Allen) Woodman. When she died in January 1915, Annie Woodman left the sum of $100,000 “for the establishment …of an institution for the promotion of education in science and art and the increase and dissemination of general and especially historical knowledge.” The trustees of the estate acquired the Woodman house and the adjoining Hale House, which by chance came on the market that same year. The renovation of the interior was directed by local architect J. Edward Richardson, and the Institute opened in July, 1916.

Today, the collections throughout the three floors of the Woodman House are arranged into galleries displaying natural science (mounted specimens, rocks and minerals, fossils, seashells), Native American culture, military history, “childhood” history (schools, Scouting, toys, games and dolls), seasonal themed exhibits and more.

Damm Garrison House Continued...

In 1915, Col. Daniel Hall (the founding Head Trustee of the Woodman Museum) had an interview with Mrs. Rounds and broached the matter of having the garrison and its contents removed to the grounds of the Woodman Museum. The proposition proved to be acceptable to her; in due time she made a formal gift of the Damm garrison to the Museum. Daniel Chesley was entrusted with the task of removing the house to its new home; it took him one week, using wooden rollers and a horse, to move the garrison to the grounds. Local architect J. Edward Richardson directed the construction of the protective outer “colonnade” building that surronds and protects the garrison currently.

Today, the collections throughout the two floors of the William Damm Garrison House are arranged into galleries displaying local Colonial and Early American history.

Keefe House & Carriage Barn Continued...

Today, the first floor of the Keefe House (the Thom Hindle Gallery) features rotating artist and artisan exhibitions throughout the year. The second floor of the Keefe House (the Robert Whitehouse Library) serves as administrative offices and a climate controlled archive. The attached two story Carriage Barn houses local and regional transportation, trades, farm, and household collections.