NEW HAMPSHIRE - Sea Coast

The focal point of this park is an exhibit of life on a modern submarine. Visitors will tour the sub and view all its compartments. Cost: Adults, $5; children age 7-17, $3; Military, $4; family, $10.

Housed in the Ladd-Gilman House, built in the first decades of the 18th century. During the American Revolution, this building stored the state's treasury. Among the museum’s permanent collection of documents chronicling the nation’s founding are an original Dunlap Broadside of the Declaration of Independence and early drafts of the U.S. Constitution. Permanent collections include American furnishings, ceramics, silver, textiles and military ephemera. Exhibits detail the history of Portsmouth and the structure itself. Cost: Adults, $5; students, $3.

Barrett House was built by Charles Barrett Sr. for his son, Charles Jr., and daughter-in-law, Martha Minot. Martha’s father encouraged the grand scale of the house by promising to furnish it in as lavish a manner as Barrett Sr. could build it. The house features family furnishings, French scenic wallpaper, early 20th-century bathrooms, and a ballroom with period musical instruments. A terraced allée leads up the hillside to a summer house.

The Children’s Museum of New Hampshire offers two levels of hands-on, custom-created exhibits for children ages 1-12. Children can explore a wide range of subjects, from dinosaurs, music and aeronautics to world cultures, art and natural history. Open year-round, the museum hosts a variety of live performances, workshops, classes and special events for families.

Exhibits on the local history of Durham feature items and documents dating back to 1632. Old photos and maps, farm implements, dolls, historic clothing, the 1875 town hearse and more.

For more than 300 years people lived and worked in the neighborhood known as Puddle Dock, today Strawbery Banke Museum. On this ten-acre site one hour north of Boston the houses, shops, taverns and gardens continue to tell the stories of the generations who called this neighborhood home for almost four centuries of New England history. Through restored furnished houses, exhibits, period gardens, historic landscapes and costumed role players Strawbery Banke is the living history of the people who settled in Portsmouth, New Hampshire from the late 17th century to the mid-20th century. The Museum Shop supports Strawbery Banke’s educational activities by offering reproductions, books and other items related to the Museum’s narrative of the neighborhood’s evolution from 1690 to the 1950s.

This museum presents a variety of exhibits involving 19th century history, including furniture, artwork, the area trolley system, farm implements, fire-fighting equipment, and a schoolhouse from the 1840's. The complex contains four buildings, The Tuck Museum, Farm Museum, Seacoast Fire Museum, and the 19th-Century District Schoolhouse. A children's playground and picnic facilities are located next to the museum. Admission is free.

Temporary art exhibits feature different historical periods and styles. Admission is free.

This four-building complex includes the Woodman House (1818), former home to lawyer Daniel Christie; Hale House (1813), home of U.S.Senator John Parker Hale; Keefe House (1827) and the William Damm Garrison home (1675). Collections of natural science to include the largest mineral exhibit north of Boston, items of local history from the 1600s to present, and a fine collection of paintings and early furniture. Cost: There is an admission charge. Hours: April-November, Wednesday-Sunday, 12:30-4:30 p.m.