Unique Experiences
Four Passes to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA
- Item Number
- 157
- Estimated Value
- 60 USD
- Sold
- 23 USD to freckles43
- Number of Bids
- 2 - Bid History
Item Description
Take yourself and your three guests to the amazing Peabody Essex Museum in the East India Mall in downtown Salem. Go see the Chinese House, moved in its entirety from rural China, or peruse the stunning collection of maritime art, including a room of figureheads from the Age of Sail. If you go in October, be prepared to share the streets with strolling witches and ghouls.
Item Special Note
The roots of the Peabody Essex Museum date to the 1799 founding of the East India Marine Society, an organization of Salem captains and supercargoes who had sailed beyond either the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn. The society’s charter included a provision for the establishment of a “cabinet of natural and artificial curiosities,” which is what we today would call a museum. Society members brought to Salem a diverse collection of objects from the northwest coast of America, Asia, Africa, Oceania, India and elsewhere. By 1825, the society moved into its own building, East India Marine Hall, which today contains the original display cases and some of the very first objects collected.
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