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 ...

Cape Ann Museum Holds Free Screening of “Captains Courageous” on Aug. 28

As the Cape Ann Museum celebrates the official opening of its new campus, Cape Ann Museum Green, the public is invited to a free screening of the...

PEM Offers Free COVID-19 Vaccines Friday Evenings from July 9 through August 13

The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) has announced the next phase of reopening and the easing of pandemic restrictions. Beginning on July 9, PEM will o...

“Portsmouth Treasures” Opens at John Paul Jones House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Portsmouth Historical Society has been receiving, preserving, studying, restoring, and exhibiting local items since it opened in 1920. You c...

Cape Ann Museum Holds Reading of Frederick Douglass June 26

On Saturday, June 26 at 10:00 a.m., the Cape Ann Museum will participate in a statewide initiative coordinated by Mass Humanities to d...

Cape Ann Museum Presents Great Marsh Sculpture & Photography Exhibition

Drawing inspiration from the vast Great Marsh, Essex sculptor Brad Story and Ipswich photographer Dorothy Kerper Monnelly will showcase works in ...

Gables’ Settlement Work Receives Important Assist From Cummings Foundation

A generous $100,000 grant from the Cummings Foundation makes it possible for The House of the Seven Gables to continue its settlement work despite st...

Cultural Exhibit by Salem United Opens May 28 at Hamilton Hall

A new cultural exhibition by Salem United, Inc. opens May 28 at Hamilton Hall in Salem. The exhibition will showcase over 20 paintings, displays, and...

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...

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...