PEM in an Hour
1. Welcome
Welcome. I’m Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Executive Director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum. Through this one-hour Collection Highlights audio tour, we’ll explore the museum together, finding objects that inspire wonder, provoke questions and perhaps even challenge how we see the world and our place in it. PEM has an origin story like no other, and a collection of diverse and fascinating works of art, culture and science that help tell the story of the country’s oldest continuously operating museum since 1799.
On this tour, I invite you to engage your senses, reflect on your lived experience and be creatively inspired. The world is complex and ever-changing, but here in PEM’s galleries, you have time to connect, to learn, and to feel…to see, and be seen. This audio tour is designed to be taken at your own pace. Let’s begin.