For Program Registration and Admission Fees, see below, or call 978-745-9500, ext. 3060

If you want to see your students' eyes light up, bring them to the Peabody Essex Museum. We specialize in helping you turn classroom content into real-life experience. Our programs enrich classroom activities and are aligned with the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for Art, History and Social Science, English Language Arts, and Science and Technology/Engineering.

We've developed programs that support your classroom teaching by:

• Illustrating concepts, answering questions, sparking new interests
• Introducing ideas and techniques that encourage students to define the importance of art and to create art for themselves
• Enhancing essential learning skills - in creative thinking, problem solving, inquiry, and more
• Providing enrichment for students of diverse learning styles and cultural backgrounds
• Demonstrating a connection between works of art and ideas, culture, and the everyday experiences of students

Creative Instruction

All K-12 programs are developed by curriculum specialists and presented by trained museum volunteers who employ multicultural and multidisciplinary methods tailored to meet your curriculum goals. For selected programs, we also offer interactive, hands-on workshops that focus on the creative process of viewing and talking about art, and provide experience with art materials and art making.

School Programs

View our school programs descriptions and learn more about educational visits to PEM.

Special Exhibition Previews for Teachers

Here is your opportunity to see and hear about new exhibitions at the Peabody Essex Museum. These special previews are free of charge and refreshments will be served. Advance registration is required. To make reservations, please call the School Services Line: 978-745-9500, ext. 3060.

Educational Services for Teachers

The Peabody Essex Museum is an authorized professional development point provider. In addition, we offer a wide range of educational services and programs, including special seminars on such subjects as embroidery or the Salem witchcraft trials, and field trips of many kinds. For information about these services, for assistance with your specific curriculum needs, or to be placed on our mailing list, please call the School Services Line: 978-745-9500, ext. 3060.

Program Registration and Admission Fees

Reservations for both school programs and self-guided visits should be made at least two weeks in advance. Call 978-745-9500, ext. 3060.

Programs are conducted by members of the museum staff. By special arrangement, you and your class may also tour any of our galleries as an independent group. For every ten students, we require one chaperone (admitted free).

Admission and Program Fee for each student and non-chaperoning adult is $5.00 for the first program hour and $2.50 for the second hour. Programs are typically one hour long. At no additional cost, students and chaperones may remain in the museum to tour on their own. Non-chaperoning adults accompanying the groups are admitted at the student rate.

Your visit to the Peabody Essex Museum may be eligible for subsidies from the PASS Roster Program of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. For further information call your local Cultural Council representative.

Note: Teachers planning future class visits or preparing worksheets are admitted free

Museum Action Corps Internship Program

The Museum Action Corps is a unique internship program that provides opportunities for a culturally diverse group of students from Massachusetts, ages 16 to 21, to learn about museums firsthand and to gain valuable professional work experience. The Museum Action Corps combines paid, museum-based employment with leadership and creativity development to broaden students' perspectives on work and their role as members of various communities.

Learn more about the MAC Internship Program