PEM Prize Street Musician Festival

Peabody Essex Museum and Pedestrian Mall 161 Essex Street, Salem, Massachusetts, United States

Sunday, May 22, 2022 | Daytime into the evening Sunday, May 22, 2022 from Noon-6 pm Free admission to festival and museum Join us for the PEM Prize Street Music Festival — a community-wide celebration hosted in collaboration with Creative Collective. Celebrate artist and PEM Prize recipient Carlos Garaicoa, whose groundbreaking exhibition Partitura featured a new kind of orchestra made up of ... Read More

Event Series Ropes Mansion Tours

Ropes Mansion Tours

Peabody Essex Museum and Pedestrian Mall 161 Essex Street, Salem, Massachusetts, United States

Saturdays and Sundays through October 23318 Essex StreetFree | No reservations required Built in 1727 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Ropes Mansion is recognized as one of New England’s most significant historic structures. Stop by to freely explore the 15 rooms at your own pace. PEM Guides are on hand to answer your questions. The ... Read More

Drop-In Activity: Spinning Hand Drums

Peabody Essex Museum 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Included with admission In honor of this year’s PEM Prize recipient, Cuban composer Carlos Garaicoa, and his immersive orchestra Partitura, learn how to create your own spinning hand drums. These drums can be made out of all sorts of objects, such as five gallon buckets, pots, pans, and even paper bowls like we will use today! Decorate your percussion instrument ... Read More

Gu Wenda: United Nations

Peabody Essex Museum 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Gu Wenda is among the most significant artists to emerge from China in the last 50 years. His awe-inspiring installations immerse visitors in a vision of shared humanity, global connectivity, and mass participation. He began as an ink painter, but by 1993 Gu began his united nations series, in which he works with human hair and other bodily materials. In ... Read More

Spirits: Tsherin Sherpa with Robert Beer

Peabody Essex Museum 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Explore the captivating paintings of one of the most renowned Himalayan artists of our time. Tsherin Sherpa’s works are grounded in the traditional Buddhist art of his training but stretch, bend, reconfigure, and repurpose its forms to explore contemporary concerns. The exhibition’s paintings and sculptures trace the evolution of his Spirits series whose subjects resemble Tibetan Buddhist deities transformed by ... Read More

PEM Pals May

Peabody Essex Museum 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Friday, May 5, 2023 from 10:30-11:30 am Included with admission Join us for a special reading of Buko by Jennifer Estacio, followed by a hands-on activity inspired by the book! Designed for children (5 and under) and their caregivers, PEM Pals aims to engage and excite all of the senses through books, movement, music, art and hands-on activities. Held once ... Read More

See Me: Salem Public Schools Students’ Creative Expressions of Identity

Peabody Essex Museum 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Thursday, May 18 through Monday, May 22, 2023 from 10 am-5 pm Included with admission; Free admission for Salem residents and children 16 and under Join PEM for a multiday pop-up exhibition featuring artwork from Salem students in grades K-12. This celebration of student works includes drawings, paintings, photography, poetry, dance, video and more. Works will be displayed throughout the ... Read More

See Me: Salem Public Schools Students’ Creative Expressions of Identity

Peabody Essex Museum 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Thursday, May 18 through Monday, May 22, 2023 from 10 am-5 pm Included with admission; Free admission for Salem residents and children 16 and under Join PEM for a multiday pop-up exhibition featuring artwork from Salem students in grades K-12. This celebration of student works includes drawings, paintings, photography, poetry, dance, video and more. Works will be displayed throughout the ... Read More

See Me: Salem Public Schools Students’ Creative Expressions of Identity

Peabody Essex Museum 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Thursday, May 18 through Monday, May 22, 2023 from 10 am-5 pm Included with admission; Free admission for Salem residents and children 16 and under Join PEM for a multiday pop-up exhibition featuring artwork from Salem students in grades K-12. This celebration of student works includes drawings, paintings, photography, poetry, dance, video and more. Works will be displayed throughout the ... Read More

See Me: Salem Public Schools Students’ Creative Expressions of Identity

Peabody Essex Museum 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Thursday, May 18 through Monday, May 22, 2023 from 10 am-5 pm Included with admission; Free admission for Salem residents and children 16 and under Join PEM for a multiday pop-up exhibition featuring artwork from Salem students in grades K-12. This celebration of student works includes drawings, paintings, photography, poetry, dance, video and more. Works will be displayed throughout the ... Read More

See Me: Salem Public Schools Students’ Creative Expressions of Identity

Peabody Essex Museum 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Thursday, May 18 through Monday, May 22, 2023 from 10 am-5 pm Included with admission; Free admission for Salem residents and children 16 and under Join PEM for a multiday pop-up exhibition featuring artwork from Salem students in grades K-12. This celebration of student works includes drawings, paintings, photography, poetry, dance, video and more. Works will be displayed throughout the ... Read More

Spirits Tour and Closing Ceremony

Peabody Essex Museum 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Join us in celebrating the closing of Spirits: Tsherin Sherpa and Robert Beer with after-hours events, including a curator-led tour, guided meditation and sound bathing. Visitors can learn about Tsherin Sherpa’s Wish Fulfilling Tree from curators and join in a discussion about the artist’s process and the significance of the wishes to Sherpa’s practice. Together, we will honor the wishes ... Read More