Explore a stately 16-room, 200-year-old Chinese home, which was relocated from southeastern China to Salem and re-erected at PEM.

Currently on view, Salem Stories presents 26 alphabetical vignettes about the people, places and events that make Salem, Massachusetts, the city it is today.

Currently on view, PEM’s Asian Export Art gallery features more than 200 works of art made in diverse media by artists in China, Japan and South Asia — including porcelain, textiles, tea, ivory and silver.

Currently on view, PEM’s Fashion and Design gallery invites visitors to consider our common drive to continually manipulate, respond to and shape our changing world.

PEM’s maritime art and history collection, which is among the finest in the country, frames the sea as an enduring source of opportunity as well as peril, a force that inspires creativity and innovation and encourages engagement with the wider world.

The Pod, located in The Dotty Brown Art & Nature Center, encourages young visitors to grow their awareness of nature and tap into creativity through hands-on experiences. The Pod is currently open to the public.

Previously on view, The Salem Witch Trials: 1692 presented rarely exhibited documents and objects from the PEM collection to reveal tragic, true stories told through the perspective of the accused and the accusers.

Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion was on view through March 2021 and showcased more than 100 works spanning 250 years that recognized women's often-overlooked contributions to the fashion and design industry.

The 2020 exhibition Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle presented 30 intimate panels from the series of paintings Struggle: From the History of the American People by one of the most renowned Black American artists of the 20th century.

The ongoing exhibition ​​Japanomania! Japanese Art Goes Global takes visitors on a journey through time from the arrival of Portuguese merchants in the 1500s through Japan’s emergence on the world stage in the late 1800s and beyond.