Archived - Shows And Events

April 5, 2014 - September 20, 2016 - The Raven in the installation's title is the Northwest Coast culture hero who brought light to the world. Explore the living relationships among humans, animals, ancestors and supernatural beings through works of Native art from the Pacific Northwest Coast created during the past 200 years. Located in the: First Floor Galleries at The Peabody Essex Museum. Clos...

This exhibition celebrates China's artistic achievements crystallized in seasonal festivals, religious ceremonies and celebrations. Discover plants and animals, myths and symbols and decipher the Chinese character for "Double Happiness." With more than 30 highlights from the museum's wide-ranging Chinese collection spanning 3,000 years. Closed Monday

This exhibition presents artworks that convey broadly shared aesthetic and cultural traditions while emphasizing the distinctiveness of various indigenous communities and their artists. The themes - Living Stories, Family Connections and Market Innovations - feature objects from PEM's renowned collection of Native American art from the Northwest Coast. Closed Monday

April 05, 2014 - October 29, 2017 - This exhibition offers a range of responses a number of nationally, indeed in some cases internationally, significant artists have had as a result of their decisions to live and work in Maine. Their works are ample demonstrations of the diverse voices that Maine’s artists have brought to the larger and ongoing narrative of the history of American art. There are ...

A selection of the museum founder’s extensive journals illuminate his dreams for the museum, passion for art, and relationships with emerging and established artists. Duncan Phillips was a prolific writer. Starting in his days as a student at Yale, Phillips wrote about art and literature, recounted trips abroad, and recorded his dreams for his museum. He generated lists of works desired and works ...

March 9, 2014 - Februsry 28, 2017 - The installation will harness daylight and artificial light as mediums with which to create, blurring the line between the physical drawing and the light drawing. The space will be filled with sinuous, large, sprawling structures on two opposing walls which transmit, reflect, and refract light while the painted dark walls of the gallery are enclosed with images ...

The exhibition consisting of four large-scale compositions, printed on transparencies and displayed on light boxes mounted in four ground-floor windows, Yellow emits a gentle incandescent light that celebrates MAM’s intimate character, calling to mind a candlelit domestic space and animating the building’s façade. Each of the four compositions, which seen up close resembles an abstract painting, c...

Gilded New York explores the city’s visual culture at the end of the 19th century, when its elite class flaunted their money as never before. The exhibition presents a lavish display of some 100 works, including costumes, jewelry, portraits, and decorative objects, all created between the mid-1870s and the early 20th century. The dazzling works in the exhibition will illuminate an era when members...

Featuring scientific illustrations spanning five centuries, the new exhibition Natural Histories: 400 Years of Scientific Illustration from the Museum’s Library explores the integral role illustration has played in scientific discovery through 50 striking, large-format reproductions from seminal holdings in the Museum Library’s Rare Book collection. The exhibition is curated by Tom Baione, Harold ...

September 13, 2013 - December 31, 2016 - On view in this exhibition are primitive paintings from the Colonial Era, carousel objects, carvings, ship models, folk art works, decoys and the Butler’s glass bells collection.