Peabody Essex Museum
Know before you go In-person event Location: Morse Auditorium Included with admission Preregistration is required for this event. Award-winning playwright and director Shayok Misha Chowdhury will spend a week as an artist in residence at PEM, developing his new play RHEOLOGY. This work is a performance memoir created with Chowdhury’s mother, the physicist Bulbul Chakraborty....
Peabody Essex Museum
Know before you go In-person event Location: Morse Auditorium Included with admission This event includes loud, sudden noises. Join Jennifer and Gene Yee of Yee Magik to unveil the life and secrets of spiritualist and magician Anna Eva Fay! Born in 1851, Fay toured internationally as a medium and mentalist and became a household name...
Peabody Essex Museum
Know before you go In-person event Location: Create Space Studios FREE All visitors enjoy free admission for the day! Programming begins at 11 am. Join us as we celebrate the legacy and leadership of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Come explore America, A Hymnal, David Boxer’s The Black Books, Alison Saar’s Weight and other...
Peabody Essex Museum
Know before you go In-person event Location: Morse Auditorium Included with admission; preregistration required. Tickets available at the Admissions or Information desks. Join us for a captivating conversation with George Schwartz, the curator of Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Mediums, and Magic, and explore the exhibition's origins and its connections to local North Shore stories....
Peabody Essex Museum
Know before you go In-person event Location: Morse Auditorium Included with admission This event includes loud, sudden noises. Join Jennifer and Gene Yee of Yee Magik to unveil the life...
Peabody Essex Museum
Know before you go In-person event Location: Morse Auditorium Included with admission Content warnings: Suicide; illness and death of a parent. Join us for an exciting PEM Reads event with author Joan Wickersham, in conversation about her new book of poetry No Ship Sets Out To Be A Shipwreck. This event will include a 90-minute...
Peabody Essex Museum
Know before you go In-person event Location: Morse Auditorium and the Garden Atrium Included with admission Join us for an exciting PEM Reads event with author Dava Sobel in conversation about her new book, The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science. The bestselling author of...
Peabody Essex Museum
Know before you go In-person event Location: Morse Auditorium Included with admission Recommended for ages 6 to adult ABOVE IMAGE: Gretchen Freund, Narwhal Tusk Research. The narwhal and its extraordinary tusk have inspired legends, intrigued Arctic explorers and baffled the world of science. How did this marine mammal evolve such an incredible tooth? What can...
Peabody Essex Museum
Join us for the PEM Gala on Saturday, November 9! Revel in the magic and explore the mysterious at a dazzling evening of dinner, dancing and art experiences all themed around our upcoming exhibition Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic, and Mediums. This year's event will feature a reimagined dining experience with a special performance...
Peabody Essex Museum
Know before you go In-person event Location: 128 Essex St., Salem $49 members and Salem residents (with valid ID); $59 nonmembers Tickets are nonrefundable. This performance includes sudden flashes and fire effects. These historic properties are not wheelchair accessible and will require visitors to ascend several steps to enter. Once inside, floors may be uneven...
Peabody Essex Museum
Know before you go In-person event Location: 128 Essex St., Salem $49 members and Salem residents (with valid ID); $59 nonmembers Tickets are nonrefundable. This performance includes sudden flashes and fire effects. These historic properties are not wheelchair accessible and will require visitors to ascend several steps to enter. Once inside, floors may be uneven...
Peabody Essex Museum
Know before you go In person event Location: Morse Auditorium $25 members; $30 nonmembers This film is rated R. Guests must be ages 18 and up, with valid ID, in order to attend. Join us for a special shadow cast horror movie experience! Watch Salem-area drag collective the Hometown Queeros and special guests Killah Croc...
