Peabody Museum of Salem

161 Essex St., Salem, Massachusetts. County/parish: Essex.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 15, 1966. NRIS 66000783.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • East India Marine Hall
  • Peabody Academy of Science

From Wikipedia:

Peabody Museum of Salem

The Peabody Museum of Salem (1915–1992), formerly the Peabody Academy of Science (1865–1915), was a museum and antiquarian society based in Salem, Massachusetts. The academy was organized in part as a successor to the East India Marine Society (founded 1799), which had become moribund but held a large collection of maritime materials in a museum collection at the East India Marine Hall, built in 1825 on Essex Street. The Peabody Museum was merged with the Essex Institute to form the Peabody Essex Museum in 1992. The East India Marine Hall, now embedded within the latter's modern structure, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965 in recognition of this heritage, which represents the nation's oldest continuously-operating museum collection.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793691

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