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PEM constantly seeks to provide new and better ways to help visitors explore art and culture from around the world. PEM.org lets you journey through current and past exhibitions, and offers features and microsites relating to the collections. Our online streaming audio and video bring to life the art and artists, the culture, and the creative process in dynamic and profound ways.


ARTscape is an award-winning online browser that links users with a multimedia database of museum artworks. Peruse the ARTscape sets or bookmark favorite objects and media resources to create a personal reference folder.

  Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination

Joseph Cornell:
Navigating the Imagination

Explore Cornell's work in thematic sets that suggest his understanding of the imagination as an echo chamber, where possibilities and connections can be discovered through subtle repetition and variation.

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  Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home

Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home

Enter the Huang family ancestral home to gain a rare perspective on Chinese art, architecture, and culture.

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Exhibition Interactives

Artscape Thematic Sets

ARTscape is a powerful new intellectual tool that uses PEM’s objects as a launching point for a user’s self-guided journey through art and culture. Data in ARTscape includes photos and descriptions of objects in PEM’s collection, definitions, book excerpts, quotations, video clips, and audio clips.

Explore PEM's renowned collection in these focused sets.

Journey To The Ends Of The Earth

Journey To The Ends Of The Earth

Polar Attractions

Polar Attractions

Wedded Bliss, The Marriage of Art and Ceremony

Wedded Bliss, The Marriage of Art and Ceremony

Samuel McIntire, Carving an American Style

Samuel McIntire, Carving an American Style

Perfect Imbalance: Exploring Chinese Aesthetics

Perfect Imbalance: Exploring Chinese Aesthetics

Origami Now!

Origami Now!

The Emperor Looks West

The Emperor Looks West

Inspired by China: Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Traditions

Inspired by China: Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Traditions

Epic India: Paintings by M. F. Husain

Epic India: Paintings by M. F. Husain

The Sketchbooks Of Antoine Roux

The Sketchbooks Of Antoine Roux

Island Thresholds: Contemporary Art from the Caribbean

Island Thresholds:
Contemporary Art from the Caribbean

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Early Years

Nathaniel Hawthorne:
The Early Years

Looking Both Ways

Looking Both Ways:
Contemporary Artists from Africa

Luxury and Innovation

Luxury and Innovation: Furniture Masterworks by John and Thomas Seymour

Bohnchang Koo-Korean Photography

The Copeland Collection:
Chinese and Japanese Ceramic Figures

Bohnchang Koo-Korean Photography

Bohnchang Koo:
Contemporary Korean Photography

Rendez-vous with the Sea: The Glory of the French Maritime Tradition

Rendez-vous with the Sea:
The Glory of the French Maritime Tradition

Indian Market: Southwestern Pottery

Indian Market: New Directions in Southwestern Native American Pottery

The Master Prints of Edwards S. Curtis: Portraits of Native America

The Master Prints of Edwards S. Curtis: Portraits of Native America

Kenro Izu: Sacred Places

Kenro Izu: Sacred Places

Painted with Thread: The Art of American Embroidery

Painted with Thread: The Art of American Embroidery

Frank W. Benson: American Impressionist

Frank W. Benson: American Impressionist

Secret World of the Forbidden City: Splendors from China’s Imperial Palace

Secret World of the Forbidden City:
Splendors from China’s Imperial Palace

The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition

The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition



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