Four passes to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. The Peabody Essex Museum (est. 1799), may be considered one of the oldest continuously operating museums in the United States. It combines the collections of the former Peabody Museum of Salem andthe Essex Institute. The museum holds one of the major collections of Asian art in the US. Its total holdings include about 1.3 million pieces, as well as twenty-two historic buildings.The Peabody Essex ranks among the top 20 art museums in the U.S. by measures including gallery space and endowment. The PEM has more than 840,000 works of art and culture featuring maritime art and history; American art; Asian, Oceanic, and African art; Asian export art; and two large libraries with over 400,000 books, manuscripts.

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