Explore Historic Salem Properties With New PEM Audio Tours

October may be over, but there are still plenty of reasons to explore Salem, particularly the Peabody Essex Museum's new audio postcard series PEM Wa...

Lynda Roscoe Hartigan Becomes the First Woman to Lead the Peabody Essex Museum

Lynda Roscoe Hartigan has moved several times during her museum career, taking along seashells collected from beaches all over the world. Bags are ma...

PEM’s In American Waters Exhibit Showcases American Marine Painting in New Light

Here on the North Shore, we love to go to the beach. We’re proud of the maritime history of our seaside towns like Gloucester and Salem. We love ...

View Alexis Rockman’s Shipwrecks Now Through May 31 at PEM

This spring, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents an exhibition of large-scale, hallucinatory paintings that tackle pressing ecological issues...

Experience the “Perfect Breath” at PEM’s New Exhibit

Three years ago, artist Zarah Hussain could hardly breathe.  “I was coughing, I was having trouble walking uphill, and I just wasn’t getting enoug...

Lynda Roscoe Hartigan Named Executive Director and CEO of PEM

The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) today announced that Lynda Roscoe Hartigan will become PEM’s next Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Executive Direc...

5 New Art Exhibits on View North of Boston

The arts and culture scene on the North Shore continues to impress, with many new exhibits opening over the past year despite the pandemic. These thr...

PEM Opens Three New South Asian Galleries Nov. 27

Today, November 27, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) opens three new galleries that provide a deeper understanding and appreciation of India and its pe...

Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion Exhibit Opens at PEM Nov. 21

Tomorrow, Saturday, November 21, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem opens a new exhibit, Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion. The exhibit ch...

PEM Curates New Exhibit on Salem Witch Trials

“I petition to your Honours, not for my own life, for I know I must die . . . but. . . that no more Innocent Blood be shed . . . .” wrote Mary Esty f...