GLO-002 PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM
Tour Price: $89.00 Retail Price: $299.00
Date: October 21, 2011 09:00 AM, 01:30 PM
Marvel at the outstanding collection of international art in the esteemed Peabody Essex Museum, which was founded in 1799 and now holds nearly a million
works of art.
Depart from the pier by coach and head west to Salem, one of early Americaʹs most significant seaports. At the end of the 18th century, sea captains here
began a collection of ʺnatural and artificial curiositiesʺ from their travels, which grew to become the Peabody Essex Museum. Some of those original artifacts
are still on display, along with nearly a million other paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, textiles and decorative objects from around the world.
The collection contains works from the 1700s to the present.
Upon arrival, you are free to tour the museum at your leisure, browsing the exhibits that are of most interest to you. As you tour the various galleries, you
might see Native American facemasks, New England folk art, Queen Victoriaʹs embroidered Chinese shawl, an ivory-inlaid writing desk, carvings from
Sub-Saharan Africa covered in leopard fur, and rare navigational instruments. This is truly an international collection, representing some of the worldʹs most
talented artists. Also housed here are more than 200 Civil War photographs by Matthew Brady, works from Koreaʹs transitional Joseon Dynasty, and several
buildings on the National Register of Historic Places that have been reconstructed in the museum.
After a visit of just over two hours, you will rejoin your coach and travel back to the pier in Gloucester.