Meet winged creatures of the night in PEM’s fall exhibition, Bats!
Bats! Opens on September 9, 2023 – PEM’s fall exhibition, Bats! Accompanied by a unique Bat Box Pop-Up Shop & Bat Public Art Installation SALEM, MA – The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents Bats! — live and up close — in a multisensory exhibition that explores the wondrous world of bats and our connections with them. As the only mammals
New Exhibition at PEM Celebrates the Creative Collaboration of two Contemporary Indigenous Artists
From the Peabody Essex Museum The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents an exhibition of two internationally-renowned contemporary Indigenous artists who view creativity as a boundless process that connects each of us. Marie Watt, an enrolled citizen of the Seneca Nation with German-Scots heritage, and Cannupa Hanska Luger, an enrolled citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation with Lakota and
Empresses of China’s Forbidden City makes U.S. debut at Peabody Essex Museum
The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) debuts Empresses of China’s Forbidden City, the first major international exhibition to explore the role of empresses in China’s last dynasty––the Qing dynasty, from 1644 to 1912. Nearly 200 spectacular works, including imperial portraits, jewelry, garments, Buddhist sculptures, and decorative art objects from the Palace Museum, Beijing (known as the Forbidden City), tell the little-known stories of how these empresses engaged with and influenced court politics, art and religion.
