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Founded in 1799, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem is a museum of international culture and art committed to connecting art to the world.
The museum’s mission is to celebrate cultural and artistic creativity by stewarding, collecting, and interpreting objects of art and culture.
It was among the first museums in the nation to collect art and culture from around the world.
Its current collections range from contemporary and historic American to Maritime, Asian, Oceanic, African, and Native American art and culture and it has an archival library as well as historic Chinese and American houses.
East India Square (161 Essex St), Salem, Massachusetts 01970, Phone: 978-745-9500
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