Description: A visit to the Woodman Museum offers an intimate and personal opportunity for visitors to explore and experience history, natural sciences, and the arts.
A visit to the Woodman Museum offers an intimate and personal opportunity for visitors to explore and experience history, natural sciences, and the arts.
The Woodman, founded in 1916, is a traditional early 20th-century style natural science, history, and art museum with exhibits for all ages. The museum’s collection includes hundreds of colonial artifacts; comprehensive mineral, shell and fossil gallery; mounted animal specimens; fine art and furniture; an extensive collection of militaria; local history objects; and much more.
Built by Captain William Palmer, for his private residence, in 1818. Palmer lived here until 1822 when he swapped houses with Charles Woodman, a wealthy Dover merchant; a member of the Legislature from 1820-1822, and in 1822 was Speaker of the House. His tenure in the house was short, however. In 1822 he died, aged 32, leaving his wife Dorothy (Wheeler) Woodman and three month old son Charles. The elder Charles’ widow remarried three years later to Daniel M. Christie, a successful attorney, head of the N.H.