As you visit our beautiful river town of Portsmouth, be sure to visit the always exhilarating Southern Ohio Museum. The River Inn Hotel is the perfect place to stay if you wish to visit the museum as we’re a scenic 5 minute walk away. If you’re traveling to Portstmouth any time soon, we highly recommend [...]

If you’re visiting Portsmouth, Ohio in April, you won’t want to miss the world class pianist, Mariangela Vacatello. Born in Naples, Italy, Mariangela has been playing the piano since the young age of four. She has studied music in both Italy and London, and over the years she has won countless prestigious awards.
She has toured [...]

For the best entertainment in Portsmouth, Ohio, you need to watch show at the Verne Riffe Centre for the Artshttp://www.ohiorivertourism.org/vrcfta.html (VRCA). Located within the beautiful Shawnee State University campus, VRCA is also the home of the Southern Ohio Performing Arts Association. The River Inn Hotel is only a scenic three minute walk to the university [...]

The Clark Planetarium is an exciting place where science meets imagination. Located in the Advanced Technology Center of Shawnee State University, the Planetarium is a 66 seat room with a large projection dome overhead. The Planetarium is home to the only computer graphics planetarium projection system in the world- the Konica Minolta Mediaglobe I/II hybrid [...]

One of the most anticipated events of the Christmas season is the annual holiday concert by the Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra (PSO). Now its 18th season, the ensemble is composed of fifty highly accomplished local and regional musicians. Featuring the very best in classical and contemporary, pop music, PSO concerts are entertaining and moving experiences.

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Portsmouth? Portsmouth?… isn’t that a city in the United Kingdom?
Yes it is. As many cities in United States are named after cities in the UK, such as Manchester, London, Glasgow and Portsmouth of course, people can be confused when you say you have been to Portsmouth Ohio.
So to clear up any confusion, let me tell [...]