Exeter Museum Free This Weekend For Museum Day

EXETER, NH — The American Independence Museum will offer free entry this weekend for Smithsonian Magazine's 2018 "Museum Day." The event is Saturday, September 22. Fourteen New Hampshire museums are among about 1,500 museums across the country that are participating.

Portsmouth's Strawbery Banke Museum, Londonderry's Aviation Museum of New Hampshire and Concord's McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center are also participating in Museum Day.

Individuals can download tickets for Museum Day on Smithsonian Magazine's website. Each ticket allows free admission for two people. One ticket is available per email address.

The theme for this year's event is "Women Making History."

"Museum Day is an annual celebration of boundless curiosity hosted by Smithsonian magazine," the magazine wrote.

New Hampshire Museums Participating In Museum Day September, 2018

Concord

• McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center
• New Hampshire History Museum

Dover

• The Children's Museum of New Hampshire

Exeter

• American Independence Museum

Londonderry

• Aviation Museum of New Hampshire

Holderness

• Squam Lake Natural Science Center

Portsmouth

• Strawbery Banke Museum

Manchester

• Millyard Museum

Newbury

• The Fells Historic Estate and Gardens

Warner

• New Hampshire Telephone Museum

Wolfeboro

• New Hampshire Boat Museum
• The Libby Museum of Natural History
• Wright Museum of World War II

Rye

• Seacoast Science Center

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