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      Josh Simpson, Mega Megaplanet, 1999. Glass. Museum purchase, 1999. 137968. © Josh Simpson. Image Courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum. Photo by Mark Sexton/PEM.

      Behind the scenes of PEM’s new Craft in America audio tour

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      Curatorial insights into PEM’s 2025 collection acquisitions  

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      Artists in Colombia (Viceroyalty of Peru), Chest, mid 1600s

      Artist Edmonia Lewis visited Boston women sculptors in Rome in December 1865

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      Scala della Piazza di Spagna in Rome

      Unpacking the Accounts of a Tea Chest: From Madras to Massachusetts in 1801

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      Edmonia Lewis

      PEMcast 41: The storied life of Edmonia Lewis 

      As PEM opens the first retrospective of 19th-century sculptor Edmonia Lewis, the PEMcast looks at her remarkable life and work.

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      PEMcast 40: Fashioning the World with Andrew Gn

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      PEMcast 39: Behind the scenes of PEM’s new Yu Kil-Chun Gallery of Korean Art and Culture

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      PEMcast Episode 038: Oh, wünderkammer, my wünderkammer

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