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Art & Nature Center

Pop-Up Art & Nature Center

The Art & Nature Center closed July 8 for renovations. An interim space, the Pop-Up Art & Nature Center, opened July 14, 2012. The Art & Nature Center is scheduled to reopen fall 2013 with the special exhibition Artist–Animal Collaborations.

Check out our temporary interactive space just off the Atrium while construction proceeds on our new Art & Nature Center. You'll discover a rotating selection of your favorite interactives (with Nature Watch and Aeolian Landscape), activity stations (want to fold some origami?) and cool objects from the museum's collection. Don't miss our ongoing drop-in art programs every weekend, and help us test future interactives at our Try This Out! station.

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Artist Profile: Betsy Connors, Eye Spy Featured Artist

Peabody Essex Museum, 2010

Artist Profile: Ron Labbe, Eye Spy Featured Artist

Peabody Essex Museum, 2010

Ron Labbe, one of the featured artists in Eye Spy, creates stereoscopic art and photography. See a range of historic and contemporary 3-D imagery as Labbe shares fascinating facts about 3-D and how it works.

Cole and the Peabody Essex Museum

Peabody Essex Museum

Cole is passionate about PEM. With his parents, this 18-month-old lover of art and culture makes new, lasting discoveries each time he visits.

Video directed and shot by Museum Action Corps (MAC) intern Susan Fuller.

Behind the Scenes: Down By The Sea!

Trash Menagerie PEM, 2009

PEM hosted "Down by the Sea!" at Dead Horse Beach in Salem in conjunction with the exhibition Trash Menagerie. More than 75 adults and kids helped environmental artist Kyle Browne create a giant sea turtle sculpture using found natural materials and beach debris. The July 11, 2009, event doubled as a beach cleanup - all the trash was later deposited in trash and recycling bins.