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NEW Exhibition: Agustina Woodgate: Ballroom

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Agustina Woodgate’s work asks us to consider a world without maps and borders. Encounter Ballroom, an installation that invites you to interact with and navigate your way through a field of geographic globes on the gallery floor. Each globe has been meticulously sanded to remove nations and human-made boundaries. Is the artist’s erasure a utopian...

NEW Exhibition: Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic, and Mediums

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

The human desire to connect with the departed has given rise to a fascination with the supernatural and the magical. Explore the essential role art and objects played for mediums and magicians “communicating” with the dead during the 19th- and 20th-century Spiritualism movement in the U.S. and Europe — a time when people actively debated...

NEW Exhibition: Agustina Woodgate: Ballroom

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Encounter Ballroom, an installation that invites you to interact with and navigate your way through a field of geographic globes on the gallery floor. Each globe has been meticulously sanded to remove nations and human-made boundaries. Is the artist’s erasure a utopian gesture in recognition of our common humanity? Or is it a dystopian premonition...

NEW Exhibition: Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Often called the unicorns of the sea, narwhals have fascinated people across cultures for centuries. These highly recognizable creatures spend their lives in the Arctic waters of Canada, Greenland, Norway and Russia. Dive deeper into the world of these unique ocean dwellers and learn about their changing arctic ecosystem through firsthand accounts of scientists and...

NEW Exhibition: Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Often called the unicorns of the sea, narwhals have fascinated people across cultures for centuries. These highly recognizable creatures spend their lives in the Arctic waters of Canada, Greenland, Norway and Russia. Dive deeper into the world of these unique ocean dwellers and learn about their changing arctic ecosystem through firsthand accounts of scientists and...

NEW Exhibition: Agustina Woodgate: Ballroom

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Agustina Woodgate’s work asks us to consider a world without maps and borders. Encounter Ballroom, an installation that invites you to interact with and navigate your way through a field of geographic globes on the gallery floor. Each globe has been meticulously sanded to remove nations and human-made boundaries. Is the artist’s erasure a utopian...

NEW Exhibition: Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic, and Mediums

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

The human desire to connect with the departed has given rise to a fascination with the supernatural and the magical. Explore the essential role art and objects played for mediums and magicians “communicating” with the dead during the 19th- and 20th-century Spiritualism movement in the U.S. and Europe — a time when people actively debated...

NEW Exhibition: Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Often called the unicorns of the sea, narwhals have fascinated people across cultures for centuries. These highly recognizable creatures spend their lives in the Arctic waters of Canada, Greenland, Norway and Russia. Dive deeper into the world of these unique ocean dwellers and learn about their changing arctic ecosystem through firsthand accounts of scientists and...

NEW Exhibition: Agustina Woodgate: Ballroom

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Encounter Ballroom, an installation that invites you to interact with and navigate your way through a field of geographic globes on the gallery floor. Each globe has been meticulously sanded to remove nations and human-made boundaries. Is the artist’s erasure a utopian gesture in recognition of our common humanity? Or is it a dystopian premonition...

NEW Exhibition: Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Often called the unicorns of the sea, narwhals have fascinated people across cultures for centuries. These highly recognizable creatures spend their lives in the Arctic waters of Canada, Greenland, Norway and Russia. Dive deeper into the world of these unique ocean dwellers and learn about their changing arctic ecosystem through firsthand accounts of scientists and...

NEW Exhibition: Agustina Woodgate: Ballroom

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Agustina Woodgate’s work asks us to consider a world without maps and borders. Encounter Ballroom, an installation that invites you to interact with and navigate your way through a field of geographic globes on the gallery floor. Each globe has been meticulously sanded to remove nations and human-made boundaries. Is the artist’s erasure a utopian...

NEW Exhibition: Agustina Woodgate: Ballroom

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Encounter Ballroom, an installation that invites you to interact with and navigate your way through a field of geographic globes on the gallery floor. Each globe has been meticulously sanded to remove nations and human-made boundaries. Is the artist’s erasure a utopian gesture in recognition of our common humanity? Or is it a dystopian premonition...