Founded in 1983, The Children's Museum of New Hampshire offers hands-on exhibits in the arts and sciences for children of all ages as one of America’s greatest children’s museums. Serving over 97,000 visitors a year with daily art and science activities, family programs and workshops, this is New Hampshire’s Children’s Museum – and it is currently moving from Portsmouth to the Butterfield Building at 6 Washington Street Dover New Hampshire.

The museum has 27 funded members, including A Safe Place, AIDS Response Seacoast, Cross Roads House, DARE, Families First, Richie McFarland Children’s Center, and the Seacoast Mental Health Center. The Board of Directors, including Daniel Mulkern, Chairman, Denise Doleac, Executive Director, have welcomed a VIP list to the new museum location on July 31st, 2007 including Scott Myers, Mayor of Dover, Dr. Susan Lynch, First Lady of New Hampshire, George Bald, Commissioner of the New Hampshire Division of Resources and Economic Development, Mary Heath, Deputy Commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Education, and Peter Hamblett, Chairman of the Children’s Museum Capital Campaign. The museum is in Phase II of raising $3.3 Million dollars required for renovations, currently having over $2 Million dollars of the funding secured.