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Peabody Essex Museum

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The Peabody Essex Museum presents art and culture from New England and around the world. The museum's collections are among the finest of their kind, showcasing an unrivaled spectrum of American art and architecture (including four National Historic Landmark buildings) and outstanding Asian, Asian Export, Native American, African, Oceanic, Maritime and Photography collections. In addition to its vast collections, the museum offers a vibrant schedule of changing exhibitions and a hands-on education center. The museum campus features numerous parks, period gardens and 24 historic properties, including Yin Yu Tang, a 200-year-old house that is the only example of Chinese domestic architecture on display in the United States.

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    Peabody Essex Museum

    161 Essex Street/East India Square
    Salem, MA 01970

    Phone: 978-745-9500   |   Official Website

  • Current Events

    01/14/12- 04/29/12	Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art Peabody Essex Museum Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art Presented by Peabody Essex Museum at Peabody Essex Museum January 14-April 29, 2012 Shapeshifting celebrates Native American ideas that have crossed time and space to be continuously refreshed with new concepts and expressions. Experience this vitality through sculpture, paintings, ceramics, textiles, photographs, videos and monumental installations drawn from collections in the United States, Canada and Europe. Rarely seen historic pieces, shown alongside some of the finest contemporary works, demonstrate the diversity and continuity of Native American art and culture from...
    01/10/12- 09/30/12	FreePort [No. 002]: Marianne Mueller Peabody Essex Museum FreePort [No. 002]: Marianne Mueller Presented by Peabody Essex Museum at Peabody Essex Museum January 10-September 30, 2012 Swiss artist Marianne Mueller delves into PEM's collection to create an installation that combines museum objects and her own photographs. Unexpected juxtapositions of time, place and influence arise in this project, Any House Is a Home, which engages some of the central issues raised by a collection - the nature, definition and purpose of an archive. Mueller's first solo exhibition at a U.S. museum is organized by PEM Curator of Photography Phillip Prodger.
    01/10/12- 05/31/12	Freeport [No. 004]: Peter Hutton Peabody Essex Museum Freeport [No. 004]: Peter Hutton Presented by Peabody Essex Museum at Peabody Essex Museum January 10-May 31, 2012 Peter Hutton has spent nearly 40 years voyaging across the world, often by cargo ship, to create meditative, intimate and luminously photographed film studies of place. At Sea (2007) depicts the life cycle of a container ship - from mechanized construction in Korean shipyards, to a journey across the Atlantic and ending with the manual labor of ship breakers in Bangladesh. The title of the film evokes a loss of perspective, a metaphor born from the experience of a sea journey and its ability...
    01/10/12- 11/30/12	Unbound: Highlights from the Phillips Library at PEM Peabody Essex Museum Unbound: Highlights from the Phillips Library at PEM Presented by Peabody Essex Museum at Peabody Essex Museum January 10-November 30, 2012 Boasting 400,000 objects and an acquisition program over two centuries old, PEM's Phillips Library is one of the largest, oldest and most significant museum libraries in the world. Through over 30 exquisitely rare and storied objects from the library's holdings, this exhibition presents works including: a visually stunning leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, an elaborately detailed sketchbook from the Civil War, 19th-century Japanese teahouse pop-ups, the earliest example of paper currency in the...

  • Upcoming Events

    02/20/12- 02/24/12

    February School Vacation Week: NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS: NEW ENGLAND! Peabody Essex Museum February School Vacation Week: NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS: NEW ENGLAND! Presented by Peabody Essex Museum at Peabody Essex Museum February 20-February 24, 2012 Join us during school vacation week as we celebrate Native American artists from New England. Watch artists at work, take a family tour of Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art and make art of your own!

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  • Current Events

    01/14/12- 04/29/12	Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art Peabody Essex Museum Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art Presented by Peabody Essex Museum at Peabody Essex Museum January 14-April 29, 2012 Shapeshifting celebrates Native American ideas that have crossed time and space to be continuously refreshed with new concepts and expressions. Experience this vitality through sculpture, paintings, ceramics, textiles, photographs, videos and monumental installations drawn from collections in the United States, Canada and Europe. Rarely seen historic pieces, shown alongside some of the finest contemporary works, demonstrate the diversity and continuity of Native American art and culture from...
    01/10/12- 09/30/12	FreePort [No. 002]: Marianne Mueller Peabody Essex Museum FreePort [No. 002]: Marianne Mueller Presented by Peabody Essex Museum at Peabody Essex Museum January 10-September 30, 2012 Swiss artist Marianne Mueller delves into PEM's collection to create an installation that combines museum objects and her own photographs. Unexpected juxtapositions of time, place and influence arise in this project, Any House Is a Home, which engages some of the central issues raised by a collection - the nature, definition and purpose of an archive. Mueller's first solo exhibition at a U.S. museum is organized by PEM Curator of Photography Phillip Prodger.
    01/10/12- 05/31/12	Freeport [No. 004]: Peter Hutton Peabody Essex Museum Freeport [No. 004]: Peter Hutton Presented by Peabody Essex Museum at Peabody Essex Museum January 10-May 31, 2012 Peter Hutton has spent nearly 40 years voyaging across the world, often by cargo ship, to create meditative, intimate and luminously photographed film studies of place. At Sea (2007) depicts the life cycle of a container ship - from mechanized construction in Korean shipyards, to a journey across the Atlantic and ending with the manual labor of ship breakers in Bangladesh. The title of the film evokes a loss of perspective, a metaphor born from the experience of a sea journey and its ability...
    01/10/12- 11/30/12	Unbound: Highlights from the Phillips Library at PEM Peabody Essex Museum Unbound: Highlights from the Phillips Library at PEM Presented by Peabody Essex Museum at Peabody Essex Museum January 10-November 30, 2012 Boasting 400,000 objects and an acquisition program over two centuries old, PEM's Phillips Library is one of the largest, oldest and most significant museum libraries in the world. Through over 30 exquisitely rare and storied objects from the library's holdings, this exhibition presents works including: a visually stunning leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, an elaborately detailed sketchbook from the Civil War, 19th-century Japanese teahouse pop-ups, the earliest example of paper currency in the...

  • Upcoming Events

    02/20/12- 02/24/12

    February School Vacation Week: NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS: NEW ENGLAND! Peabody Essex Museum February School Vacation Week: NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS: NEW ENGLAND! Presented by Peabody Essex Museum at Peabody Essex Museum February 20-February 24, 2012 Join us during school vacation week as we celebrate Native American artists from New England. Watch artists at work, take a family tour of Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art and make art of your own!

• Past
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  • Past Events

    07/30/11- 11/06/11	Painting the American Vision at PEM Peabody Essex Museum
    07/30/11- 12/31/11	FreePort [No. 004]: Peter Hutton at PEM Peabody Essex Museum
    07/09/11	Adult Photography Workshop at PEM Peabody Essex Museum
    06/30/11	NEW! Summer Evening Series: Art After Hours Peabody Essex Museum
    06/18/11	WEEKEND FESTIVAL: Splish Splash! Peabody Essex Museum
    06/11/11	WEEKEND FESTIVAL: Celebrating Surrealism Peabody Essex Museum
    05/13/11- 05/14/11	Massachusetts Poetry Festival Peabody Essex Museum
    04/18/11- 04/22/11	April School Vacation Week; Hanami: Arts of Japan Peabody Essex Museum
    04/16/11	Slow Art Day Peabody Essex Museum
    04/15/11	Boston Artists Ensemble Concert Peabody Essex Museum
    04/02/11- 04/03/11	WEEKEND FESTIVAL: SENSATIONAL INDIA! Peabody Essex Museum
    12/21/10- 01/02/11	The Art and Nature Center's Greatest Hits Peabody Essex Museum
    11/28/10	Antiques Show Jazz Brunch Peabody Essex Museum
    09/14/10- 01/09/11	The Emperor's Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City Peabody Essex Museum
    07/24/10	The Wonders of the Landscape: Photography Workshop Peabody Essex Museum
    07/15/10	Dinosaurs at the Museum Peabody Essex Museum
    07/08/10	Beer+Chocolate = Food of the Gods Peabody Essex Museum
    06/19/10- 06/01/11	Eye Spy, Playing with Perception Peabody Essex Museum
    06/12/10- 01/01/11	Imprints: Photography by Mark Ruwedel Peabody Essex Museum
    06/04/10	Karen Finley's "The Jackie Look" Peabody Essex Museum
    05/22/10- 05/23/10	Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea - Weekend Festival Peabody Essex Museum
    04/19/10- 04/23/10	School Vacation Week: Trash Springs to Life Peabody Essex Museum
    04/17/10- 07/18/10	The Kennedys-Portrait of a Family: Photographs by Richard Avedon Peabody Essex Museum
    04/10/10- 04/11/10	Sensational India! festival Peabody Essex Museum
    03/27/10- 07/18/10	Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea Peabody Essex Museum
    03/13/10- 03/14/10	TourFest Peabody Essex Museum
    03/06/10	ECHO Performing Arts Festival Peabody Essex Museum
    02/13/10	Valentine's Celebration at PEM Peabody Essex Museum
    02/05/10	Iris After Dark! Peabody Essex Museum
    01/16/10- 01/17/10	Human Rights Watch International Film Festival Peabody Essex Museum
    01/10/10	Film Day: Defining Beauty - Do the Photographs Lie? Peabody Essex Museum
    12/19/09- 01/03/10	Best of the Art & Nature Center Peabody Essex Museum
    11/28/09- 11/29/09	37th Annual Antiques Show Peabody Essex Museum
    11/20/09	Concert: Boston Artists Ensemble Peabody Essex Museum
    11/14/09- 11/15/09	Weekend Festival: The Art of Fire: Glass beads and Josh Simpson’s work Peabody Essex Museum
    10/17/09- 01/18/10	Valerie Belin: Made Up Peabody Essex Museum
    10/17/09- 02/07/10	Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel Peabody Essex Museum
    09/20/09	'Raga Unveiled' - Film Peabody Essex Museum
    09/20/09	Nature Mandalas Peabody Essex Museum
    06/20/09	Trash Menagerie Opening Day Festival Peabody Essex Museum
    06/20/09- 06/01/10	Trash Menagerie Peabody Essex Museum
    06/13/09- 09/07/09	Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes Peabody Essex Museum
    06/12/09	Surf's Up! A PEM Beach Party Peabody Essex Museum
    06/11/09	The Insider's Guide to Book Collecting
    05/16/09- 10/04/09	SurfLand: Photographs by Joni Sternbach Peabody Essex Museum
    04/18/09	Jazz and Soul Festival at the Peabody Essex Museum Peabody Essex Museum
    04/04/09- 04/01/10	ReVisions: Indian Artists Engaging Tradition Peabody Essex Museum
    04/04/09- 04/05/09	SENSATIONAL INDIA! Peabody Essex Museum
    03/29/09	Chinese Contemporary Art and Its Place in the Global Market, Panel Discussion at the Peabody Essex Museum Peabody Essex Museum
    03/15/09	Personal Expression through Art in China, Pannel Discussion at the Peabody Essex Museum Peabody Essex Museum
    03/14/09- 12/31/10	Fish, Silk, Tea, Bamboo Peabody Essex Museum
    03/07/09	9th Annual ECHO Performing Arts Festival Peabody Essex Museum
    02/21/09- 05/17/09	Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection Peabody Essex Museum
    06/28/08- 06/07/09	Polar Attractions Peabody Essex Museum

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