The Peabody Essex Museum is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the museum’s first permanent gathering and exhibition space, ...
A Witch’s Brew of an Exhibit Enters the Modern Age in Salem The “Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming” exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum draws parallels between the country’s most ...
Spiritualism captured the attention of the curious and the mourning, mediums, and illusionists — all of whose stories are explored in ‘Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic, and Mediums.’ It’s a ...
The work of 19 young queer and transgender filmmakers from around the world will be on display this weekend at the Peabody Essex Museum as part of the Panorama film festival. “We have an amazing ...
A slowly advancing movement within North American museums is the explicit, holistic, and permanent integration of Colonial and Native American art and culture, side by side in the same space, to tell ...
Growing up, I used to watch my mother get ready to go out. It was one of my favorite things to do. She worked long hours during the week and would indulge in a night out every once in a while to ...
When "Good Morning America" made a recent trip to Easter Island, the whole country got a look at a new moai statue (a stone statue of a human figure) found there. Moai statues, which are hundreds of ...
A Hindu rights activist is calling on a Massachusetts museum to stop selling children’s plush toys representing three Hindu deities, which he says are “insensitive.” Toys depicting Lord Krishna, Lord ...
The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, is considered one of the oldest continuously operating museums in the United States. It is a successor to the East India Marine Society, established ...