Dan Lipcan (the Ann C. Pingree Director of PEM’s Phillips Library) leads a talented staff charged with preserving and sharing the library’s extensive collection of books, archives, ships’ journals, broadsides, photography and ephemera. Together, they work to transform the highly-respected research library — with its rich and varied global collections — into an innovative and active intellectual hub that supports the overall mission of the museum. Lipcan has curated or co-curated a number of exhibitions, including several on the Salem Witch Trials. He holds a B.A. in Studio Art (Printmaking) from Allegheny College, an M.L.S. from Queens College–CUNY, and in 2017 was selected to participate in the Columbia Business School Executive Development Program at The Met. He is a member of the Grolier Club and the Art Libraries Society of North America.

Since 2009, Paula Richter has been responsible for curatorial research and support of the museum's changing exhibition program, related publications and core activities within the curatorial department. She has participated on exhibition teams for more than a dozen recent and upcoming exhibitions and numerous gallery installations and rotations.

Richter curated or co-curated The Salem Witch Trials 1692; The Salem Witch Trials: Restoring Justice; Made It: Women Who Revolutionized Fashion; Salem Stories; The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming; Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel; and Wedded Bliss, the Marriage of Art and Ceremony, among others.

She previously worked for the Cape Ann Historical Association, the Sargent House Museum and Landmark College. A graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Richter writes and lectures on American textiles and fashion and New England art and decorative arts.