Peabody Essex Museum

Join fellow PEM members on a behind-the-scenes tour of our collection center in Rowley.

Walking through Salem can feel like you\'re walking through history! Come celebrate Salem 400+ with us by helping recreate this extraordinary town using cardboard and mixed media. Add new characters to our ever-evolving street scene! Regular Drop-in Art Making is held in person Friday–Sunday and holiday Mondays in our Create Space studios. Friday art making...

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Join PEM Reads for a discussion with Jilly Gagnon on locked-room mystery, Cards on the Table.

et into the Halloween spirit and visit the Ropes Mansion to see the exterior decorated in the style of the ‘90s cult classic Hocus Pocus.

Join us for a virtual conversation and art making workshop featuring the campy, eerie talents of illustrator and artist Bill Crisafi.

Walking through Salem can feel like you\'re walking through history! Come celebrate Salem 400+ with us by helping recreate this extraordinary town using cardboard and mixed media. Add new characters to our ever-evolving street scene! Regular Drop-in Art Making is held in person Friday–Sunday and holiday Mondays in our Create Space studios. Friday art making...

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Walking through Salem can feel like you\'re walking through history! Come celebrate Salem 400+ with us by helping recreate this extraordinary town using cardboard and mixed media. Add new characters to our ever-evolving street scene! Regular Drop-in Art Making is held in person Friday–Sunday and holiday Mondays in our Create Space studios. Friday art making...

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Sink your fangs into Halloween with Arpeggione Ensemble’s live performance of the score for Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror.

Sink your fangs into Halloween with Arpeggione Ensemble’s live performance of the score for Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror. In the 1920s, silent films weren’t silent: They were accompanied by a live piano player, organist or full orchestra. Experience this classic 1922 horror movie with Arpeggione performing on historical instruments from the early 20th century, including harmonium, flute, clarinet and strings.

From the eerily corpse-like appearance of Max Schreck as Count Orlok to climactic shot of a shadow on a staircase, Nosferatu set the standard for modern horror movies and created the vampire movie as we know it. As the earliest film adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Nosferatu is the source of several of the most enduring aspects of modern-day vampire lore.

Fans of horror, music enthusiasts, vintage aficionados… enter if you dare to see and hear Nosferatu as it would have sounded when it was first screened!

Join us between the 1 pm and 7 pm screenings for a talk with the performers about the cultural impact, artistic innovations and enduring legacy of Nosferatu.

Performers:

Thomas Carroll, director and clarinet

Andrea LeBlanc, flute

Elise Bonhivert, clarinet

Isabelle Seula Lee, violin

Emily Hale, violin

Sachin Shukla, viola

Anna Seda, cello

Guinevere Fridley, bass

April Sun, piano

George Wiese, harmonium

PEM Presents seeks to surprise and delight audiences with world-class artistry in music, theater, dance, film and more. This series allows audiences to learn about the artistic process and supports the development of artists with local, regional, national and global perspectives. This program further activates the museum as a global center for art, culture and creativity with artist residencies, live performances, lecture series, symposia and conferences. PEM Presents is a collaboration between Learning and Community Engagement and the Present Tense initiative.

PEM Presents is made possible by The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation.

Happens on the following Dates:Oct 24, 2026, 1:00pm to 3:00pm Timezone: Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Oct 24, 2026, 7:00pm to 9:00pm Timezone: Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Written by Robert Eggers and starring Anya Taylor-Joy, this haunting film follows a family plagued by witchcraft and demonic possession.

Would you like to live deliciously with us? Written by Robert Eggers and starring Anya Taylor-Joy, this haunting film follows a Puritan family in 1630s New England who are plagued by witchcraft and demonic possession. This history-focused horror movie screening is part of our Salem 400+ programming. See our full list of events at pem.org/salem400 .

Walking through Salem can feel like you\'re walking through history! Come celebrate Salem 400+ with us by helping recreate this extraordinary town using cardboard and mixed media. Add new characters to our ever-evolving street scene! Regular Drop-in Art Making is held in person Friday–Sunday and holiday Mondays in our Create Space studios. Friday art making...

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Walking through Salem can feel like you\'re walking through history! Come celebrate Salem 400+ with us by helping recreate this extraordinary town using cardboard and mixed media. Add new characters to our ever-evolving street scene! Regular Drop-in Art Making is held in person Friday–Sunday and holiday Mondays in our Create Space studios. Friday art making...

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Magician Anton Andresen will commemorate the 100th anniversary of Houdini's death by presenting a selection of mysteries inspired by his life and career.

Make a one-of-a-kind paper lampshade or lantern using simple materials and imaginative design based on Isamu Noguchi’s iconic Akari paper light sculptures.

Walking through Salem can feel like you\'re walking through history! Come celebrate Salem 400+ with us by helping recreate this extraordinary town using cardboard and mixed media. Add new characters to our ever-evolving street scene! Regular Drop-in Art Making is held in person Friday–Sunday and holiday Mondays in our Create Space studios. Friday art making...

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Create your own dream playground collage inspired by our current exhibition Isamu Noguchi: "I am not a designer”!

Join us for the annual PEM Gala fundraiser dinner and after-party.

Join us for a reading of the book My Heart Fills With Happiness, written by Monique Gray Smith and illustrated by Julie Flett.

Walking through Salem can feel like you\'re walking through history! Come celebrate Salem 400+ with us by helping recreate this extraordinary town using cardboard and mixed media. Add new characters to our ever-evolving street scene! Regular Drop-in Art Making is held in person Friday–Sunday and holiday Mondays in our Create Space studios. Friday art making...

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Walking through Salem can feel like you\'re walking through history! Come celebrate Salem 400+ with us by helping recreate this extraordinary town using cardboard and mixed media. Add new characters to our ever-evolving street scene! Regular Drop-in Art Making is held in person Friday–Sunday and holiday Mondays in our Create Space studios. Friday art making...

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Join ornithologist Alan Poole for an exploration into the Resplendent Quetzal — a dazzling, legendary bird of the highland forests of Central America.

As the days grow shorter, join us for a reflective art workshop that reflects on those who came before us.

Join curator and scholar Christina Hiromi Hobbs for a talk on Isamu Noguchi's voluntary incarceration at the Poston War Relocation Center during WWII.

Organized and led by members of the trans community, this vigil will feature trans speakers and the traditional reading of names, followed by an open mic.

Join the Fo’c’sle Four for an afternoon of rollicking sea shanties, ballads and other traditional songs from Salem and Gloucester.