Peabody Essex Museum

About

Founded in 1799, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) is the country’s oldest continuously operating museum. It’s also one of the largest and fastest-growing. PEM celebrates outstanding artistic and cultural creativity through exhibitions and events that emphasize cross-cultural connections, integrate past and present, and underscore the vital importance of creative expression.

Founded in 1799, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) is the country’s oldest continuously operating museum. It’s also one of the largest and fastest-growing. PEM celebrates outstanding artistic and cultural creativity through exhibitions and events that emphasize cross-cultural connections, integrate past and present, and underscore the vital importance of creative expression.

Visitors will find hands-on creativity zones, interactive opportunities, performance spaces, and historic property tours, including Yin Yu Tang, a 200-year-old Chinese House.

See authentic Witch Trials documents and historic objects alongside creative responses by contemporary artists in The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming, on view at PEM through March 20, 2022.