The outdoor Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, you can explore centuries of life through 43 original buildings, from the Pitt Tavern that served John Hancock, George Washington and Paul Revere to Abbott’s grocery store that dealt with rationing during WW II, to the Shapiro Home, where Jewish Russian immigrants lived in the 1920s.
Costumed role-players bring history to life, recounting the stories of the people who lived and worked in these buildings, sometimes with live demonstrations of hearth cooking, coopering, and more.
There’s a daily garden tour, and indoors there’s a gallery and a discovery center to learn about games, crafts, chores and pastimes.
14 Hancock St.
NH Exit 7
603-433-1100
http://www.strawberybanke.org/