"The University Museum is a room full of treasures that tells a rich and wonderful story of a small agricultural college turned state university. For some alumni, these mementos evoke true memories, while for others, the freshman rules, beanies, banners, dance cards, letter sweaters, scrapbooks and photographs lend dimension to their flat images of the university's past." --Dale Valena

"Unique" describes the museum and its collection of University of New Hampshire memorablilia. Not only does the museum collect the college's history in the form of such things as beanies, banners, and hockey sticks, but twice per year exhibitions are organized that reflect a variety of historic perspectives about UNH. Past exhibitions include histories of the Univesity Marine Program, UNH photographers, the museum's textile collection, pottery teachers Ed and Mary Scheier, and women students at UNH.

The current exhibition, Out of the Cat's Closet: the University Museum's Unique Collection, features a somewhat random selection of the kinds of objects the University Museum collects. Together with University Archives, which preserves the two-dimentional, paper-based history of UNH, the collections are available to scholars and provide the unique materials for telling the stories about the community of UNH.