Adopt an Artifact

Adopt an Artifact returns with a powerful purpose: to help bring our 2026 exhibition, “Revolutionary Portsmouth” to life at the historic John Paul Jones House. This special exhibition, presented for the nation’s 250th anniversary, will explore the everyday people—Loyalist and Patriot, free and enslaved—who made Portsmouth revolutionary.

With a significant drop in federal and state funding, producing exhibitions has become increasingly challenging. Adopt an Artifact gives you a direct way to support the research, care, and presentation of these objects. Funds raised will go toward protective display cases, custom mounts, interpretive labels, and the many behind-the-scenes materials needed to share this history with care and integrity.