Enrich your senses and broaden your mind with friends and famiy for a day in Salem, MA, at The Peabody Essex Museum! This world renowned museum of international art and culture was founded in 1799 by America's first global entrepreneurs. 

The Peabody Essex Museum presents art and culture from New England and around the world. In addition to its vast collections, the museum offers changing exhibitions, a hands-on education center, an award-winning museum shop, and a cafe and restaurant. The museum campus features numerous parks, period gardens, and 24 historic properties.

Click here for a link to view current exhibitions at PEM. Currently on view through July 6 is California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way, which highlights more than 250 examples of the distinctive role California had in shaping modern culture from 1930-1965.

The mission of the Peabody Essex Museum is to celebrate outstanding artistic and cultural creativity by collecting, stewarding and interpreting objects of art and culture in ways that increase knowledge, enrich the spirit, engage the mind and stimulate the senses.