This exhibition is the world’s finest museum collection of Chinese porcelain figurines is featured in the Pamela Cunningham Copeland Gallery at the Peabody Essex Museum. Mrs. Copeland began collecting these rare figures in 1937. During a sixty year period, she amassed more than 200 exceptional examples of one of China’s most captivating decorative arts. Closed Monday

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March 22, 2012 - August 14, 2016 - At PEM Lin spotlights the renowned collection of Asian export art. Lin created a sprawling mural of original armorial and heraldic motifs (elaborate coats of arms) that climb up the walls of the Mellon Staircase and along the floor of the Export Silver Galleries. Located in the: Asian Export Art: China, Mellon Staircase and Galleries at The Peabody Essex Museum....

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In this exhibition are photographs that document the creation of the replicas in a factory in China are interspersed among 19th-century gouaches from the PEM collection that depict the historic porcelain production process. To animate the history of trade between China and the West, Lin also created a large-scale installation comprised of hundreds of replicas of Mr. Nobody, one of the first repres...

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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 M...

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April 5, 2014 - September 20, 2016 - This exhibition celebrates China's artistic achievements crystallized in seasonal festivals, religious ceremonies and celebrations.  Come and experience the liveliness of a drinking party, the opulence of a royal wedding and poetic evocation of spring on a delicate dish. With more than 30 highlights from the museum's wide-ranging Chinese collection...

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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

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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

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July 19, 2014 - May 14, 2017 - This dazzling exhibition focuses on the Museum’s world-class collection of jewelry from Ancient Nubia (located in what is now Sudan). The Nubian adornments housed at the MFA constitute the most comprehensive collection outside Khartoum. As the conduit between the Mediterranean world and lands south of the Nile Valley, Nubia was known for its exotic luxury goods...

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This dazzling exhibition focuses on the Museum’s world-class collection of jewelry from Ancient Nubia (located in what is now Sudan). The Nubian adornments housed at the MFA constitute the most comprehensive collection outside Khartoum. “Gold and the Gods” includes more than one hundred treasures, including a gilt-silver mummy mask of Queen Malakaye and the famous Hathor-headed c...

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This exhibiton is a very early work by Rembrandt, from a series of allegories of the five senses, is on view in the remastered galleries, on loan from one of the greatest private collections of Dutch Golden Age paintings in the world. While certainly the work of a young artist, yet to find his mature voice, this small painting nonetheless reveal many of the distinctive hallmarks of Rembrandt. A lu...

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