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The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is a museum affiliated with Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum is one of the oldest and largest museums focusing on anthropological material, with particular focus on the ethnography and archaeology of the Americas .
The Peabody Civic Center Historic District encompasses a well-preserved portion of the historic center of Peabody, Massachusetts.Extending along Chestnut and Franklin Streets south of Peabody City Hall, the district includes a small residential area built in the mid-19th century, as well as the city hall and St. JOhn the Baptist Roman Catholic Church, two monumental structures defining the ...
The Robert S. Peabody Institute has served as a major center for fieldwork, research, and publication since its founding in 1901. Peabody, an 1857 graduate of Phillips Academy, established the Museum as the repository for his collection of approximately 38,000 artifacts and as a place where students could become acquainted with the discipline of archaeology. [2]
Peabody (/ ˈ p iː b ə d i /) is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 54,481 at the time of the 2020 United States Census . Peabody is located in the North Shore region of Massachusetts, and is known for its rich industrial history.
This list of museums in Massachusetts is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts, US, is a successor to the East India Marine Society, established in 1799. [1] It combines the collections of the former Peabody Museum of Salem (which acquired the Society's collection) and the Essex Institute .
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. [2] 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 ...
The Peabody Museum can refer to: George Peabody House Museum, a historic house museum in Peabody, Massachusetts; Peabody Essex Museum, an art museum in Salem, Massachusetts; Peabody Historical Library Museum in Peabody, Kansas; Peabody Leather Museum in Peabody, Massachusetts; Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University