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PEM Collection Center Enhanced by Generous Donation from Philanthropists James B. and Mary Lou Hawkes
SALEM, MA – The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) announces that longtime museum supporters James B. and Mary Lou Hawkes have made a significant donation to enhance PEM’s 120,000-square-foot Collection Center in Rowley, Massachusetts. Their eight-figure gift supports the museum’s efforts to house, care for and improve access to its collection of over 800,000 works of art and culture, representing more than 12,000 years
PEM Spotlights the Ongoing Fight for Educational Equality with new exhibition
The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents an exhibition drawn from its Phillips Library collection that explores how the 19th century struggle for educational rights began in Salem and led to equal education advocacy and reform across America. Thanks to the heroic effort by Black youth activists, students and parents, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts became the first state to outlaw school
